Hybrid Principal Project Manager, Engineering Programs

Westinghouse Electric Company; Rock Hill (SC); Hybrid; USD 103,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

Westinghouse Electric Company is hiring a Principal Project Manager within the APX Fleet Engineering to plan, coordinate and deliver complex AP1000 engineering work packages. You will report to the Director - Project & Portfolio Planning and collaborate with Lead Engineers, Project Controls and functional teams across the portfolio.

You will own schedule, cost, risks and interfaces, drive day-to-day execution, and elevate issues through the leadership path.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive project management, engineering, project engineering or project-controls experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, Business or a related technical discipline.
• Demonstrated experience planning and delivering complex work packages or projects with multiple contributors and interfaces.
• Working experience with scope, schedule, cost, resources, risks, issues, forecasting and performance reporting.

Responsibilities

• Manage assigned engineering work packages from authorization through accepted completion, including scope, schedule, cost, resources, risks, interfaces and actions.
• Develop and maintain work-package plans with clear ownership, milestones, logic, forecast dates and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure assigned scope and progress are accurately represented in the Integrated Engineering Schedule.
• Coordinate engineering contributors, technical leads, Project Controls and interfacing organizations to maintain execution alignment.
• Monitor actual performance, update remaining forecasts and communicate material variance and recovery actions.
• Identify risks, constraints and decisions early; drive issue resolution and elevate matters that exceed work-package authority.
• Maintain action, change and decision records and support configuration-controlled completion evidence.
• Provide concise status to the Lead Project Manager or Program Manager and support portfolio reporting.
• Apply standard Project Afterburner tools, processes, lessons learned and continuous-improvement practices.

Skills

5+ years project management

Scheduling & forecasting

Cross-functional coordination

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Bachelor's degree in Project Management

Bachelor's degree in Construction Management

Bachelor's degree in Business or related discipline

Job description

Westinghouse Electric Company is hiring a Principal Project Manager within the APX Fleet Engineering to plan, coordinate and deliver complex AP1000 engineering work packages. You will report to the Director - Project & Portfolio Planning and collaborate with Lead Engineers, Project Controls and functional teams across the portfolio.

You will own schedule, cost, risks and interfaces, drive day-to-day execution, and elevate issues through the leadership path.