Nuclear Development Project Manager (FEL)

The Nuclear Company; Columbia, Northern (SC, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation packages

401k with company match

Job summary

The Nuclear Company is hiring a Project Manager, Development to own the integrated FEL execution of nuclear development projects. You will coordinate land, licensing, permitting, engineering, and finance while delivering complete, defensible stage-gate packages for decision gates.

You will drive schedule adherence, manage risk, and oversee key governance documents and executive summaries, ensuring safety, quality, and regulatory compliance throughout the FEL process.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, business, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of project management experience on large capital projects, including 3+ years in early-phase development or front-end loading (FEL/FEED) environments.
• Demonstrated experience managing multidisciplinary teams within a stage-gate or phase-gate governance framework.
• Working knowledge of project controls fundamentals: CPM scheduling, cost estimate classification (AACE), risk management, and change control.
• Strong executive-level written communication; proficiency with scheduling tools (Primavera P6 or MS Project) and advanced Excel.

Responsibilities

• Integrated project schedule and deliverable ownership for the FEL phase, including milestone cohort tracking, critical-path management, and schedule adherence reporting.
• Core project management documents: Project Execution Plan, Project Charter, stage-gate checklists, delegation of authority, variance management, and weekly executive summaries.
• Cross-functional integration of land, licensing, permitting, interconnection, engineering, environmental, cost, finance, legal, and commercial workstreams, including interface and dependency resolution.
• Risk and fatal-flaw management: maintain the project risk register, drive mitigations to closure, and escalate threats to stage-gate criteria.
• Stage-gate preparation and governance: deliverable completeness reviews, gate package assembly, and presentation to governance boards.
• Cost performance management against approved budgets, including coordination on estimates, escalation, contingency, and funding tranche requests.
• Scenario and strategy analysis (schedule acceleration, pull-forward of long-lead activities, decision-gate timing) to inform executive decisions.

Skills

CPM scheduling

Cost estimation classification (AACE)

Risk management

Change control

Executive communication

Primavera P6

MS Project

Excel (advanced)

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, business, or related technical field

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Project

Excel

Job description

The Nuclear Company is hiring a Project Manager, Development to own the integrated FEL execution of nuclear development projects. You will coordinate land, licensing, permitting, engineering, and finance while delivering complete, defensible stage-gate packages for decision gates.

You will drive schedule adherence, manage risk, and oversee key governance documents and executive summaries, ensuring safety, quality, and regulatory compliance throughout the FEL process.