Senior Project Engineer Nuclear
Job Summary
The Senior Project Engineer will direct and coordinate the engineering and design of assigned projects along with technical aspects of the contract. This role involves establishing and managing technical interfaces between engineers, customers, and subcontractors to ensure project success. The incumbent will provide leadership, ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, and drive timely resolution of technical project issues.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate project engineering and design
- Manage technical interfaces and subcontractors
- Ensure regulatory and quality compliance
- Identify risks and resolve technical issues
- Support proposal generation and commercial efforts
Required Skills
- 8+ years power industry experience
- Bachelor's degree in STEM field
- Nuclear power domain expertise
- Project management and scheduling (Primavera)
- Leadership and communication skills
Job Details
Essential Responsibilities:
- Work with functional engineering teams to build estimates, schedules, and change orders.
- Coordinate and provide technical and delivery leadership for the project.
- Be accountable for engineering interfaces with multiple engineering disciplines, business project management, subcontractors, and customers.
- Provide oversight for subcontractor engineering work on assigned projects.
- Define critical technical project issues and ensure their timely resolution.
- Identify technical risks and implement risk mitigation plans.
- Ensure engineering activities are performed in compliance with customer, internal, and regulatory requirements.
- Support commercial and marketing opportunities for Engineering including generating technical portions of proposals.
- Keep project and engineering management advised of project progress, performance, and resource utilization.
- Work with Chief Consulting Engineers to coordinate Engineering Design Reviews as required.
- Review engineering performance on the project to ensure quality and conformance with design processes.
- Promptly review Design Change notices, identify change order candidates, and assist in change order management.
- Perform Responsible Configuration Management reviews as required.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, or Computer Science from an accredited college or university.
- Minimum of 8 years of power industry project management, design, or operation experience.
Desired Characteristics:
- Nuclear operator license or training certification.
- Knowledge of nuclear business products, business processes, customers, and competitive environment.
- Demonstrated ability in meeting project budget, schedule, and quality commitments.
- Excellent leadership, influencing, communication, and presentation skills.
- Experience working with Government contracts and contracting requirements.
- Ability and willingness to travel.
- Experience in boiling water or advanced reactors and/or equivalent technical environment.
- Prior experience working with architect engineer / subcontractors.
- IT / Computer competency.
- Proven ability to think strategically and move quickly.
- Strong technical aptitude, including applicable engineering tools and systems.
- Primavera project scheduling tool experience.