Project Delivery Test Manager

Internal Service Fund; United States; On-site; USD 167,000 - 251,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive plan

Retirement benefits: PERS, 401(k) with

Life/Health insurance

Nine paid holidays

Personal time accrual 160 hours

Job summary

Energy Northwest seeks a Test Manager for the Extended Power Uprate Project to lead testing governance across multiple projects and ensure readiness before delivery. You will oversee test plans, procedures, logs, and final reports while coordinating with engineering, quality, and operations teams.

The role demands senior leadership, risk management, and the ability to drive structured testing programs that meet regulatory requirements and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field and eighteen years of relevant experience in system testing, commissioning, validation, or verification within a technical environment.
• Must have demonstrated leadership experience managing cross-functional test teams, complex schedules, risks, and interfaces across multiple disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Oversees test readiness reviews, test conduct, issue escalation, and formal test closeout across assigned projects and portfolios.
• Leads development of test strategies, verification plans, and acceptance criteria for complex systems.
• Communicates status, risks, and constraints to leadership and supports change management and lessons learned.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical field

Tools

Leadership in test teams

Risk management

Scheduling

Job description

GENERAL SUMMARY

The Extended Power Uprate Project Delivery Test Manager provides strategic leadership, technical oversight, and governance for all testing and validation activities across assigned projects or the portfolio. This role ensures that testing activities are planned, executed, and documented in accordance with project requirements, engineering standards, regulatory expectations, and organizational quality frameworks. The Test Manager partners closely with Project Managers, Engineering Leads, Operations, and Quality organizations to ensure readiness, manage risks, and verify that systems meet performance, safety, and functional requirements prior to delivery or deployment.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

The Extended Power Uprate Project Delivery Test Manager serves as the senior authority for test readiness reviews, test conduct, issue escalation, system/component flushing to avoid foreign material and formal closeout; Thereby, ensuring all activities comply with approved procedures, safety requirements, and quality standards. They identify and manage technical and programmatic risks affecting system performance, integration, and test execution while providing governance over all test documentation, including plans, procedures, logs, anomaly reports, and final test reports. The role requires close coordination with Project Delivery, Engineering Technical Authority, Quality Assurance, and Configuration Management to maintain alignment across requirements, baselines, and verification pathways. Guides team members through complex technical and schedule challenges, facilitates collaborative problem‑solving, and ensures that all disciplines are coordinated during planning, execution, and closeout of test activities. Fosters a culture of accountability, safety, and technical rigor while mentoring team members, promoting effective communication, and driving consistent adherence to testing processes, standards, and organizational expectations. Leads team engagement during readiness reviews, test execution, issue resolution, and post‑test evaluations to ensure successful and efficient delivery of testing outcomes that meet project requirements. Extended Power Uprate Project Delivery Test Manager leads the development of comprehensive test strategies, verification plans, and acceptance criteria for complex engineering or technical systems. This role oversees the planning and execution of all test phases, including component testing, system integration testing, factory acceptance testing, field testing, and commissioning. The Test Manager also communicates status, risks, issues, and constraints to leadership, leads and mentors test engineering teams, supports change management processes, and ensures that lessons learned and continuous improvement practices are integrated into future testing efforts.

Support the following

• ERO
• Outage support including OCC

REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Requires a Bachelor’s degree field from accredited college or university in Engineering or a related technical field and eighteen years of relevant experience in system testing, commissioning, validation, or verification within an Operations, Work Control Management, Engineering, Nuclear, Military or other complex technical environment. OR Associate’s degree from accredited college or university and twenty years of relevant experience in system testing, commissioning, validation, or verification within an Operations, Work Control Management, Engineering, Nuclear, Military or other complex technical environment. OR High School Diploma/GED and twenty-two years of relevant experience in system testing, commissioning, validation, or verification within an Operations, Work Control Management, Engineering, Nuclear, Military or other complex technical environment. Must have demonstrated leadership experience managing cross-functional test teams, complex schedules, risks, and interfaces across multiple disciplines.

Pay Range

Pay Range $167,142.00 - $250,714.00 Annual Midpoint: $208,928.00 Typically, selected candidates are hired between the minimum and midpoint of the range, based on applicable experience and qualifications, market rate, internal equity, and budgetary allowances. Offers will be negotiated based on each candidate's qualifications.

Incentive Compensation

This role may be eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan. Incentives are earned based on employee performance against defined metrics and company goals.

Benefits

Energy Northwest (EN) provides a phenomenal benefits package. Washington State also has no state income tax, and the Tri-Cities provides a cost-of-living lower than the national average. EN offers substantial retirement benefits through three retirement programs including the Washington State Public Employees' Retirement System pension plan (PERS), a 401(k) savings plan with an employer match component, and a 457(b) savings plan. EN also offers multiple options for medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance coverage. Other voluntary benefits may include flexible spending accounts (FSAs), tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment, childcare subsides, health reimbursement arrangement (HRA VEBA), health savings account (HSA), supplemental life insurances, credit monitoring/identity theft insurance, and more! Qualifying employees will typically start a personal time accrual rate of 160 hours per year and EN provides nine paid holidays throughout the Calander year; personal time accruals grow significantly at various service intervals.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate due to race, color, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, national origin, veteran status or on the basis of disability.

Know Your Rights: Workplace discrimantion is illegal Current Energy Northwest employees must apply through the Jobs Hub on Workday. As a regional leader in clean energy generation and public power solutions, Energy Northwest develops, owns and operates a diverse mix of electricity generating resources, including hydro, solar, battery storage and wind projects – and the Northwest’s only nuclear power facility. Energy Northwest is a Washington state joint operating agency comprised of public power member utilities, serving more than 1.5 million customers. The agency continually explores new generation projects and solutions to meet its members’ needs.