Project Manager (Nuclear)

• Coordinate, manage project team documentation submittals and disposition process towards securing required customer approvals.
• Coordinate and manage project-level planning actions to facilitate the needs of customer, third party and regulatory inspections of finished, or in-process goods for inspection purposes.
• Manage and communicate project revenues, cost, and gross margin forecasts, as well as identify and proactively manage risks throughout project life cycle.
• Coordinate project team involvement and participation at customer’s pre-award meetings, kick-off meetings, lessons-learned meetings, and progress meetings.
• Overall project performance throughout project life cycle: order receipt through warranty; specific focus on contract performance, technical compliance, and customer satisfaction; drive project execution per planned schedule, holding project team and customer accountable for project performance.
• Ensure timely invoicing at project milestones and assist when needed with resolving payment delays through customer outreach and engagement.
• Review vendor/inter-company bids for engineered/buyout products against scope, quality, performance, cost, and schedule requirements.
• Primary customer interface/contact on all assigned projects.
• Manage and facilitate prompt, meaningful communications with the customer to resolve technical and commercial issues, convey project progress on a routine basis, and negotiate commercial contract modifications when called for.
• Establish a positive and productive working relationship with both domestic and international customers and their project teams through face-to-face meetings, teleconferences, and routine communication.
• Coordinate, drive order execution through stakeholder management of Engineering, Quality Assurance, Procurement, Production, Shipping and Finance towards achieving on-time delivery, contract compliance and targeted profitability.

• General knowledge of NDE operations, techniques, and practices.
• Experience working in a “Nuclear Safety Culture” environment
• Proficient in business and project management software (MS Office, MS Project Professional, MS SharePoint).
• General knowledge of manufacturing processes, techniques, practices.
• Experience in managing a multi-disciplined project team: engineering, quality control, procurement, manufacturing, cost estimating, delivery/billing, and configuration management.
• Effective communication skills (both oral and written).
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally approximately 10 to 15% of time; international customers will require off-normal hour interface.
• Knowledge of order management/administration, contracts, US Contract Law, and commercial negotiations best practices.
• 5+ years experience working with multi-million dollar projects including custom-engineered, manufactured products for the commercial nuclear valve/process control industry in a project management or engineering role.
• Proficient in customer relations management (CRM) type software, such as Salesforce®, or equivalent.
• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Technology (BSME or BSMET), or similar engineering or technical degree from an accredited four-year college or university required.
• Relevant experience working with an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.