Project Manager

The Nuclear Company; Lexington (KY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation packages

401k with company match

Job summary

The Nuclear Company seeks a seasoned Project Manager, Development to lead the FEL stage-gate execution for nuclear development projects. You will own scope, schedule, cost, and risk across engineering, licensing, land, environmental, and finance workstreams, coordinating a cross-functional team and presenting to governance boards.

Candidates should have 8+ years in large capital projects, proficiency with CPM scheduling, cost estimation, risk management, and change control, and hands-on

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, business, or related technical field.
• 8+ years of project management on large capital projects, including 3+ years in FEL/FEED environments.
• Demonstrated experience managing multidisciplinary teams within stage-gate governance.
• Working knowledge of CPM scheduling, cost estimate classification (AACE), risk management, and change control.

Responsibilities

• Integrated project schedule and deliverable ownership for the FEL phase and milestone tracking.
• Core PM documents: Project Execution Plan, Project Charter, stage-gate checklists, delegation of authority, variance management, and weekly summaries.
• Cross-functional integration of land, licensing, permitting, interconnection, engineering, environmental, cost, finance, legal, and commercial workstreams.
• Risk and fatal-flaw management: maintain risk register, drive mitigations to closure, and escalate threats to stage-gate criteria.
• Stage-gate preparation and governance: deliverable reviews, gate package assembly, and presentation to governance boards.
• Cost performance management against budgets, including coordination on estimates, escalation, and funding tranche requests.
• Scenario and strategy analysis to inform executive decisions.

Skills

CPM scheduling

Cost estimation

Risk management

Change control

Education

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

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Project

Excel

Job description

The Nuclear Companyis the fastest-growing AI-enabled startup in nuclear energy,bringing together experienced nuclear professionals, technologists, engineers,and builders to deliver the next generation of nuclear power. Through our design-once, build-many approach, we are creating a repeatable model for deploying nuclear fleets—combining the industry’s highest standards for safety, quality, and regulatory rigor with the speed and innovation required to meet the world’s growing energy needs.

We are building the future of nuclear work.Every employee is expected to use AI, technology, and our Nuclear Operating System (NOS) to strengthen engineering and operational decision-making, improve quality, eliminate inefficiencies, and accelerate execution without compromising safety.Our nuclear expertise shapes the continued evolution of NOS, enabling us to capture institutional knowledge, standardize best practices, and deliver complex projects with greater consistency and certainty.

We hire people who believe nuclear energy is essential to human progress.Our team is made up of mission-driven experts who respect the rigor of the industry while challenging outdated ways of working.They bring deep technical judgment, intellectual curiosity, high agency, and the humility to learn from others.Our values—Transparency, Responsibility, Unity, Scrappy, and Tenacity—guide how we hire, collaborate, and make decisions.Together, they form TRUST, the foundation of our safety cultureand our commitment to intellectual honesty, personal accountability, open communication, and operational excellence.

About the role

The Project Manager, Development owns the integrated execution of one or more nuclear development projects through the Front-End Loading (FEL) stage-gate process, with accountability for scope, schedule, cost, and risk across all development workstreams. They integrate a broad matrixed team spanning land, licensing, permitting, interconnection, engineering, environmental, cost, finance, legal, and commercial functions, and serve as the single point of accountability to the project sponsor. The PM operates the project governance rhythm — weekly executive summaries, deliverable and milestone tracking, risk registers, and stage-gate checklists — and drives each project to a successful gate decision with complete, defensible deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Integrated project schedule and deliverable ownership for the assigned 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 escal... 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.

Required 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Nuclear power development, licensing, or construction experience; familiarity with the NRC regulatory framework (10 CFR Parts 50/52/100) and lessons learned from recent U.S. nuclear construction programs.
• PMP, PgMP, or equivalent certification; advanced degree (MBA or MS) is a plus.
• Familiarity with utility-scale generation development: interconnection queues (PJM/MISO), state siting and economic development programs, and land assembly.
• Experience with AACE Recommended Practices for estimate classification and escalation.
• Competitive compensation packages
• 401k with company match

Estimated Starting Salary Range

The estimated starting salary range for this role is $150,000-$173,000 annually less applicable withholdings and deductions, paid on a bi-weekly basis. The actual salary offered may vary based on relevant factors as determined in the Company’s discretion, which may include experience, qualifications, tenure, skill set, availability of qualified candidates, geographic location, certifications held, and other criteria deemed pertinent to the particular role.

EEO Statement

The Nuclear Company is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an environment of inclusion in the workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. We prohibit discrimination in all aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, demotion, transfer, compensation, and termination.

Export Control

Certain positions at The Nuclear Company may involve access to information and technology subject to export controls under U.S. law. Compliance with these export controls may result in The Nuclear Company limiting its consideration of certain applicants.