Nuclear Project Lead: Planning & Delivery

Sargent & Lundy; Georgia; Hybrid; USD 118,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Plans

Life & Accident Insurance

Disability Coverage

401(k)

Paid Vacation

Tuition Assistance

Employee Discount Program

Paid Holidays

Flexible Work Arrangements

Job summary

Sargent & Lundy is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead complex nuclear projects from initiation to closeout. The role requires coordinating engineering, procurement, construction, testing, and client stakeholders with a strong emphasis on safety, quality, and regulatory compliance.

The successful candidate will manage scope, schedule, budget, and staffing while maintaining alignment across disciplines and ensuring deliverables meet client and company standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, project management, business, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of nuclear power, utility, engineering, construction, or project management experience.
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary project teams with increasing responsibility.
• Experience managing scope, cost, schedule, risk, resources, contracts, and client communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead nuclear projects through planning, engineering, procurement, implementation, testing, turnover and closeout.
• Establish and maintain project scope, schedule, budget, staffing plans, and performance objectives.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams across engineering, construction, operations, maintenance, testing, procurement and quality.
• Serve as primary client and station point of contact for project matters.
• Develop plans, schedules, risk registers, action logs, decision logs and status reports.
• Monitor cost, schedule, resource loading, forecasts, changes and performance trends.
• Lead meetings, readiness reviews, design reviews, planning sessions and coordination meetings.
• Identify risks and develop mitigation strategies, elevating issues when needed.
• Manage change control and evaluate impacts to cost, schedule, quality and safety.
• Coordinate vendor interfaces, procurement activities, field support and performance follow-up.
• Support outage planning, construction planning, startup, turnover and closeout activities.
• Ensure deliverables are complete, reviewed, and compliant with requirements.

Skills

Project leadership

Client communication

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Cost/schedule/risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering/PM related field

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Job description

Sargent & Lundy is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead complex nuclear projects from initiation to closeout. The role requires coordinating engineering, procurement, construction, testing, and client stakeholders with a strong emphasis on safety, quality, and regulatory compliance.

The successful candidate will manage scope, schedule, budget, and staffing while maintaining alignment across disciplines and ensuring deliverables meet client and company standards.