Advanced Project Manager - Cranberry, PA

VetJobs; Cranberry Township (Butler County); Hybrid; USD 103,000 - 129,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Medical benefits

401(k) with Company Match

Paid Vacations and Holidays

Flexible Work Arrangements

Educational Reimbursement

Job summary

Westinghouse Electric Co is seeking a Principal Project Manager in Cranberry Township, PA, to lead high-complexity projects across multiple workstreams. You will direct cross‑functional teams and manage safety, quality, schedule, and budgets in a hybrid on-site/remote setup.

You will guide planning and execution, ensure regulatory compliance, and drive data-driven decisions using enterprise tools like SAP, Azure DevOps, Jira, and Power BI.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Project Management, Business, or a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years leading medium- to high-complexity projects; 5 years in PM plus 3 years in technical leadership.
• Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification.

Responsibilities

• Own execution from initiation through closeout for large, complex projects with multiple workstreams.
• Apply agile, predictive, or hybrid delivery methods while ensuring regulatory, quality, and configuration requirements.
• Direct integrated planning across workstreams for scope, deliverables, schedule, cost, resources, and risks.
• Manage schedules in Microsoft Project Server / PWA with milestones and critical path.
• Ensure data integrity across Project Server/PWA, SAP, Azure DevOps, Jira, SharePoint, Teams, and Power BI.
• Lead project reviews and present forecasts, risks, issues, options, and recommendations.
• Own financial performance for substantial project budgets; review baselines and estimates to complete.
• Lead change control and risk management; negotiate changes within authority.
• Oversee closeout activities and capture lessons learned for improvements.

Skills

Project leadership

Stakeholder management

Budget management

Regulatory understanding

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/related field

Tools

Microsoft Project Server / PWA

SAP

Azure DevOps

Jira

Power BI

SharePoint/Teams

Job description

Requisition Information

Requisition Number: 35687

Company: Westinghouse Electric Co

Location: Cranberry Township, US

About The Role

As a Principal Project Manager you will manage high-complexity projects with substantial financial, technical, and customer commitments. Direct multidisciplinary teams across departments and locations, including project managers and workstream leads, on fuel engineering software, Artificial Intelligence & Innovation, methods, capital, and process improvement initiatives.

You will report to the Operations Manager of Nuclear Fuel Engineering Operations and be located at Cranberry Township, PA. The position offers a hybrid work arrangement, blending remote flexibility with regular on‑site collaboration at our office.

Key Responsibilities

• Own execution from initiation through closeout for large, complex projects with multiple workstreams; establish accountability for safety, quality, technical, customer, contractual, schedule, financial, and goals.
• Apply agile, predictive, or hybrid delivery methods while ensuring regulatory, quality, and configuration requirements are met.
• Direct integrated planning across workstreams for scope, deliverables, work breakdown structure, schedule, cost and revenue, resources, quality, procurement, communications, stakeholders, assumptions, dependencies, and risks.
• Own logic-driven, resource-loaded schedules in Microsoft Project Server / Project Web App (PWA), including milestones, dependencies, constraints, critical path, baselines, status dates, progress, and forecasts.
• Ensure reliable, consistent project and portfolio data across approved enterprise tools—including Project Server/PWA, SAP, Active Risk Manager, Azure DevOps, Jira, SharePoint, Teams, and Power BI—to support integrated controls, traceability, and executive decisions.
• Lead project reviews; present credible forecasts, risks, issues, options, and recommendations.
• Own financial performance for substantial project budgets and revenue commitments; challenge estimates, baselines, expenditure plans, accrual inputs, and estimates to complete.
• Lead change control and integrated risk and opportunity management across workstreams. Evaluate technical, commercial, regulatory, resource, and cross-project impacts; establish mitigation and contingency strategies and negotiate changes within delegated authority.
• Direct acceptance, transition, financial reconciliation, records retention, and resource release at closeout. Assess delivery against intended results and apply lessons learned across projects to improve predictability, quality, efficiency, and risk avoidance. Capture lessons learned to lead improvements

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Project Management, Business, or a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years leading medium- to high-complexity projects; at least 5 years in project management plus 3 years in relevant technical leadership may be considered.
• Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification.

Benficial

• Experience with complex commercial interfaces, executive decision support, and project management mentoring; ability to integrate Finance, Legal, Quality, Supply Chain, Product Management, Engineering, and Information Technology requirements.
• Experience working in nuclear power, nuclear fuel engineering, or a comparable highly regulated technical environment, with demonstrated ability to work within rigorous engineering, quality, and governance requirements.
• Advanced Project Server/PWA expertise in integrated multi-workstream schedules, resource capacity, baselines, and portfolio reporting; experience directing schedule assurance, critical path analysis, earned value, forecasting, and complex recovery planning.
• Experience integrating Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar agile tools with enterprise project controls for multi-release software delivery; familiarity with SAP, Active Risk Manager, Primavera P6, Power BI, SharePoint, Teams, or equivalent tools. Advanced Project Manager | Updated project management content

We are committed to transparency and equity in all of our people practices. The base salary range for this position, which is dependent upon experience, qualifications and skills, is estimated to be $103,200 to $129,000 per year.

Why Westinghouse?

Benefits

• Comprehensive Medical benefits which could include medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage and Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contributions options
• Wellness Programs designed to support employees in maintaining their health and well-being including Employee Assistance Program providing support for our employees and their household members
• 401(k) with Company Match Contributions to support employees' retirement
• Paid Vacations and Company Holidays
• Opportunities for Flexible Work Arrangements to promote work-life balance
• Educational Reimbursement and Comprehensive Career Programs to help employees grow in their careers
• Global Recognition and Service Programs to celebrate employee accomplishments and service
• Employee Referral Program

Company Values

• Safety and Quality
• Integrity and Trust
• Customer Focus and Innovation
• Speed and Passion to Win
• Teamwork and Accountability

While our Global Headquarters are located in Cranberry Township, PA, we have over 11,000 employees working at locations in 19 different countries. You can learn more by visiting http://www.westinghousenuclear.com.

Westinghouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.

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