Nuclear Outage Construction Lead

ECM; Spring City (TN); On-site; USD 96,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

D&Z is seeking a Construction Manager for a client project at TVA Watts Bar Nuclear Plant in Spring City, TN. This onsite assignment supports outage activities through the fall outage, starting ASAP.

The role oversees outage construction and coordination, enforcing nuclear safety and regulatory requirements while guiding field teams and coordinating with engineering, maintenance and subcontractors. This includes managing work packages, permits, and inspections.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of construction or project management experience in power generation facilities.
• Nuclear outage experience strongly preferred.
• Technical degree or equivalent industrial field experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and direct construction activities during scheduled outages, ensuring alignment with outage scope, milestones, and critical-path priorities.
• Coordinate daily outage tasks, monitor progress, and adjust labor and resources to maintain schedule integrity.
• Enforce nuclear safety, human performance tools, and quality standards in all work activities.
• Supervise craft labor through union leadership, providing clear direction in a high-tempo outage environment.
• Collaborate with engineering, maintenance, operations, procurement, and subcontractors to support outage planning and execution.
• Manage outage-related work packages, permits, tagouts, and required inspections.
• Identify and mitigate schedule risks, emergent work, and interface issues that may impact outage duration or plant restart.

Skills

Construction management

Outage planning

Safety compliance

Leadership

Schedule management

Education

Technical degree or equivalent

Job description

D&Z is seeking a Construction Manager for a client project at TVA Watts Bar Nuclear Plant in Spring City, TN. This onsite assignment supports outage activities through the fall outage, starting ASAP.

The role oversees outage construction and coordination, enforcing nuclear safety and regulatory requirements while guiding field teams and coordinating with engineering, maintenance and subcontractors. This includes managing work packages, permits, and inspections.