Construction Manager

ACS Professional Staffing; Richland (WA); On-site; USD 54,000 - 92,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sick Leave

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Medical, Dental, Vision

401k with employer match

Other benefits (Calm App, LifeBalance)

Job summary

ACS Professional Staffing seeks a Construction Manager to join the nuclear projects field implementation team in Richland, WA. This on-site role involves coordinating with nuclear contractors, HP/RP personnel, and station staff to ensure capital projects are completed safely, on schedule, and within budget.

Night shifts may occur during outages, requiring initiative and strong leadership across construction teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Project Management, or a related field preferred.
• 5+ years of commercial nuclear power plant experience required.
• Experience managing large-scale external contractors required.
• Demonstrated knowledge of construction, cost and schedule management, subcontract administration.
• Experience executing work in radiological areas (nuclear) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage a construction team to ensure project activities are completed safely, on schedule, within budget, and to required quality.
• Communicate daily with leaders for direction and feedback.
• Present project status to internal customers, including technical, organizational, and financial issues.
• Perform complex analysis of problems involving construction activities.
• Develop innovative strategies to achieve milestones and priorities.
• Monitor safety, cost, schedule, and quality performance and report status.

Skills

Project management

Nuclear industry

Contractor management

MS Office

Nuclear safety awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Overview

ACS Professional Staffing is looking for an employee to work on-site with our client. This Construction Manager role is a key member of the nuclear projects field implementation management team, dedicated to ensuring the projects impacting the power block are successful, achieving project performance objectives, on-schedule, and on-budget major milestone accomplishment. The CM interacts frequently and directly with nuclear industry contractors at the General Superintendent, Supervisor, General Foreman, and Foreman levels to help those construction leaders succeed, while also working directly with contracted craft, suppliers, work order planners, Health Physics (HP), Radiation Protection (RP), and station personnel to help the Project Manager ensure success completing capital projects, testing, and turning the system over to the station on schedule and on budget. This position requires a high level of initiative and experience managing implementation teams that support nuclear projects, and may include back (night) shift during the outage implementation timeframe. The work environment is an active heavy industrial nuclear power plant setting that includes both office and field settings, with the successful candidate spending most of the workday interfacing with construction personnel. This role will also need to traverse tight areas, climb ladders, and wear appropriate fall protection while working at heights.

This full-time position is located in Richland, WA.

• Sick Leave: One hour of paid sick leave for every 40 hours worked (sick leave can be used after 90 days of employment)
• EAP: Employee Assistance Program
• Benefit options available: Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA, Group Life/AD&D, Voluntary Life/AD&D, Voluntary Short-Term Disability, Voluntary Long-Term Disability, Voluntary Critical Illness, Voluntary Accident, Hospital Indemnity, 401k (eligible after one year and 1,000 hours worked - employer match up to 4%)
• Other benefits include the following: Calm App, LifeBalance Discount Program

Overview

ACS Professional Staffing is looking for an employee to work on-site with our client. This Construction Manager role is a key member of the nuclear projects field implementation management team, dedicated to ensuring the projects impacting the power block are successful, achieving project performance objectives, on-schedule, and on-budget major milestone accomplishment. The CM interacts frequently and directly with nuclear industry contractors at the General Superintendent, Supervisor, General Foreman, and Foreman levels to help those construction leaders succeed, while also working directly with contracted craft, suppliers, work order planners, Health Physics (HP), Radiation Protection (RP), and station personnel to help the Project Manager ensure success completing capital projects, testing, and turning the system over to the station on schedule and on budget. This position requires a high level of initiative and experience managing implementation teams that support nuclear projects, and may include back (night) shift during the outage implementation timeframe. The work environment is an active heavy industrial nuclear power plant setting that includes both office and field settings, with the successful candidate spending most of the workday interfacing with construction personnel. This role will also need to traverse tight areas, climb ladders, and wear appropriate fall protection while working at heights.

This full-time position is located in Richland, WA.

Pay range: $39.13 - $67.93

Benefits

• Sick Leave: One hour of paid sick leave for every 40 hours worked (sick leave can be used after 90 days of employment)
• EAP: Employee Assistance Program
• Benefit options available: Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA, Group Life/AD&D, Voluntary Life/AD&D, Voluntary Short-Term Disability, Voluntary Long-Term Disability, Voluntary Critical Illness, Voluntary Accident, Hospital Indemnity, 401k (eligible after one year and 1,000 hours worked - employer match up to 4%)
• Other benefits include the following: Calm App, LifeBalance Discount Program

Responsibilities

• Manage a construction team to ensure that project activities are completed for the customer safely, on schedule, within budget and at the appropriate quality level.
• Communicate with other leaders daily for management direction and feedback.
• Participate in presentations to internal customers regarding project status, including complex technical, organizational, and financial issues.
• Conduct considerably complex analysis of problems involving construction activities.
• Develop innovative alternative action strategies enabling the early achievement of milestones.
• Perform risk analyses and provide decision authority for defining and approving corrective actions and establishing priorities.
• Ensure that construction efficiency is optimized by providing efficient construction input and involvement in projects throughout the conceptual design phases, construction, turnover and the completion phases of each project.
• Foster a "team concept" when interfacing with Operations, Maintenance and other departments.
• Attend scheduled and unscheduled meetings, provide reports on the status of construction activities, and identify, address, and resolve complex problems.
• Ensure that various construction teams have the capability to execute assigned scope in a safe, secure, and cost-effective manner in accordance with the cost, technical, schedule, dose, and quality baselines.
• Balance and prioritize construction resources to support successful execution.
• Represent projects on assigned teams.
• Work with all other functions (i.e. Operations, Design, Design Authority, etc.) to safely execute project scope within all baselines.
• Ensure ongoing communication to maintain the necessary resources from "outside" organizations and address related concerns appropriately.
• Review project level performance for effective cost and schedule performance through reporting and project analysis.
• Ensure appropriate corrective actions are taken.
• Monitor and analyze project safety, cost, schedule, and quality performance.
• Communicate to the applicable project supervisor and/or manager on the baseline status, manpower needs and recommended corrective actions on a regular basis to ensure project success.
• Hold construction team members accountable for performance and compliance to policy and procedures.
• Take actions necessary to meet project quality, scope, budget, and schedule baselines.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Project Management, or a related field preferred.
• 5+ years of commercial nuclear power plant experience required.
• Experience managing large-scale external contractors required.
• Demonstrated in-depth knowledge of construction, cost and schedule management, subcontract administration, and the ability to develop and evaluate construction strategies and methodologies.
• Comprehensive knowledge of project planning at the tactical level, as well as operations, maintenance, project startup, construction management, and subcontract administration, preferred.
• Experience executing work in radiological areas (nuclear) with a history of executing and planning work in radiological environments.
• Ability to manage complex, high-risk, large-scale projects.
• Experience with commercial nuclear power plant system replacements and upgrades.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.

Work sponsorship is not available at this time. Third-party candidates will not be considered for this position.

Because we are a federal government contractor, we have special restrictions placed on us for hiring foreign nationals into certain key positions within the company. This particular position requires U.S. citizenship.

ACS Professional Staffing will provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to the applicant’s race, color, religion, sex, gender, genetic information, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other status protected by federal or state law. The company will provide reasonable accommodations to allow an applicant to participate in the hiring process if so requested.

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