Nuclear Project Manager - Hybrid, Impact & Execution Leader

Sargent & Lundy; Augusta (GA); On-site; USD 118,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Sargent & Lundy is seeking a Project Manager to lead complex nuclear projects, coordinating multidisciplinary teams and ensuring adherence to safety, quality, and regulatory requirements. The role centers on planning, execution, and closeout, with strong emphasis on client communication and program governance.

The candidate will manage scope, cost, schedule, and risks, and will collaborate with engineering, procurement, construction, and operations to deliver projects on time and within budget,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field; equivalent education and experience may be considered.
• 10+ years of experience in nuclear power, utility, engineering, construction, project management, or related technical environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary project teams with increasing responsibility.
• Experience managing project scope, cost, schedule, risk, resources, contracts, and client communication.
• Experience supporting projects in an operating nuclear plant or other highly regulated industrial environment.
• Strong written, verbal, organizational, analytical, and presentation skills.
• Ability to interpret engineering documents, specifications, procedures, schedules, estimates, procurement documents, and project reports.
• Ability to work effectively with client personnel, station organizations, engineering disciplines, contractors, vendors, and field teams.
• Ability to obtain and maintain access to a nuclear facility, subject to client and site requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead nuclear projects through planning, engineering, procurement, implementation, testing, turnover, and closeout.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary project teams and maintain alignment across engineering, construction, operations, maintenance, testing, procurement, quality, and project-controls organizations.
• Serve as the primary client and station point of contact for project matters.
• Develop and maintain project work plans, integrated schedules, milestone plans, risk registers, action-item logs, decision logs, and status reports.
• Monitor project cost, schedule, resource loading, commitments, forecasts, changes, and performance trends.
• Lead project meetings, readiness reviews, design reviews, planning sessions, walkdowns, and execution coordination meetings.
• Identify project risks, constraints, interfaces, and emerging issues; develop mitigation strategies and elevate matters when appropriate.
• Manage scope development and change control, including evaluation of impacts to cost, schedule, quality, safety, configuration, and implementation readiness.
• Coordinate vendor, contractor, and supplier interfaces, including technical deliverables, procurement activities, field support, and performance follow-up.
• Support work-order development, outage planning, construction planning, startup, testing, turnover, and closeout activities as applicable to the assigned project.
• Ensure project deliverables are complete, technically accurate, properly reviewed, and issued in accordance with client and Sargent & Lundy requirements.
• Promote nuclear safety, quality assurance, configuration control, human performance, and procedural adherence throughout project execution.
• Maintain effective communication with station leadership, client project managers, responsible engineers, discipline leads, suppliers, contractors, and field personnel.
• Support lessons learned, continuous improvement, and knowledge transfer across project teams.

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Cost-control systems

Job description

Sargent & Lundy is seeking a Project Manager to lead complex nuclear projects, coordinating multidisciplinary teams and ensuring adherence to safety, quality, and regulatory requirements. The role centers on planning, execution, and closeout, with strong emphasis on client communication and program governance.

The candidate will manage scope, cost, schedule, and risks, and will collaborate with engineering, procurement, construction, and operations to deliver projects on time and within budget,