R&D Project Manager

Battelle Energy Alliance; Idaho Falls (ID); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

The Idaho National Laboratory's Nuclear Science & Technology directorate seeks an R&D Project Manager to lead teams responsible for design, irradiation, and post-irradiation examination of nuclear fuel experiments.

Responsibilities include managing scope, budget, schedules, and milestones; coordinating quality, regulatory, and instrumentation efforts; and representing NS&T in discussions with national and international partners to advance nuclear initiatives.

Qualifications

• ABET-accredited degree in Nuclear Engineering with required experience.
• Ability to obtain DOE L clearance (US citizenship).
• Experience with ASME NQA-1 2000 or equivalent quality program.
• Strong leadership and multi-disciplinary program management.
• Experience with experimental design, irradiation, and post-irradiation examinations.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams responsible for design, irradiation, and examination of first-of-a-kind experiments.
• Oversee scope, budget, schedule, and technical milestones across disciplines.
• Coordinate with quality, regulatory, and instrumentation teams and partners.
• Develop and execute Experiment Execution Plans and project deliverables.
• Interface with national and international partners to advance nuclear initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Nuclear engineering knowledge

Interpersonal skills

Stakeholder management

Education

ABET-accredited Nuclear Engineering degree with 5+ years experience

Advanced degree in Nuclear Engineering (MS/PhD) ABET-accredited program

Job description

Want to lead the future of nuclear energy? The Nuclear Science & Technology (NS&T) directorate at Idaho National Laboratory is hiring R&D Project Managers to work within our Nuclear Fuels and Materials division.

You will manage brilliant and hard-working teams who own the design, fabrication, irradiation, shipment, and post-irradiation examination of nuclear fuel and materials experiments, overseeing scope, budget, schedule, and technical milestones from start to completion. You will provide leadership across multiple disciplines including quality, engineering, regulatory, and experiment instrumentation, represent NS&T in business discussions with national and international partners, and prepare and execute experiment plans and engineering deliverables in accordance with applicable quality standards enabling the nuclear energy renaissance for the nation.

Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities:

• Manage teams responsible for design, analysis, fabrication, irradiation, shipment, and examination of first-of-a-kind experiments planned for irradiation in a nuclear reactor and post-irradiation examinations in nuclear facilities.
• Manage technical experiment interfaces, provide leadership to the experiment team, and gather, analyze, and implement corrective actions for experiment risk, cost, scope, and schedule, including technical milestones.
• Provide direction to and coordination among highly specialized teams of research scientists and engineers focused on nuclear fuel and material testing (irradiation and post-irradiation examination).
• Identify experiment team members to accomplish experiment goals and objectives and work with line management on the assignment of staff.
• Collaborate to develop new experiment procedures and processes.
• Assist in initial experiment negotiations with national and international partners.
• Prepare and execute the Experiment Execution Plan, Functional and Operational Requirements, experiment Data Package, and/or other documents per relevant guidelines, policies, and procedures.
• Identify and resolve experiment challenges and execute scope as agreed in the Experiment Execution Plan.
• Organize and provide managerial leadership to experiment teams across multiple technical disciplines and support functions, including quality, regulatory, engineering, analysis, experiment instrumentation.
• Represent NS&T in business discussions and commitments made to partners.
• Interface with external national and international entities, representing the NS&T in business discussions for experiment results in the advancement of nuclear initiatives and technologies.
• Maintain direct partner interface and collaboration, engage strategically with INL, other DOE laboratories, and industry.
• Develop and manage experiment project scope, budget, and execution schedules.
• Prepare and submit monthly experiment highlight reports.
• Prepare and process engineering deliverables.

Required:

• Level 3: Bachelor of Science degree in Nuclear Engineering, or related science or other related engineering from an ABET-accredited program and 5 years of relevant experience; or an advanced degree in Nuclear Engineering, or related science or other related engineering from an ABET-accredited program and 2 years of relevant experience
• Level 4: Bachelor of Science degree in Nuclear Engineering, or related science or other related engineering from an ABET-accredited program and 9 years of relevant experience; or a Masters in Nuclear Engineering, or related science or other related engineering from an ABET-accredited program and 6 years of relevant experience; or a PhD in Nuclear Engineering, or related science or other related engineering from an ABET-accredited program and 4 years of relevant experience.
• Experience and knowledge pertinent to executing work in accordance with standards of ASME NQA-1 2000 as implemented by the INL Quality Program or equivalent is required.
• This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy "L" clearance, which requires US Citizenship.
• This position requires exceptional interpersonal skills to build and maintain high performing collaborative teams using influence.

The ideal candidate will possess:

• Advanced degree in Nuclear Engineering, or related science from an ABET-accredited institution.
• Demonstrated experience in providing leadership, strategic and tactical planning, and overall leadership and execution of large, complex, and technically challenging programs requiring multidisciplinary integration across multiple organizations.

Physical Requirements:

While performing the duties of this classification, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, stoop, kneel, bend, and work in an office and field/laboratory environment. The job requires hand/finger dexterity to keyboard or type, handle materials, manipulate tools, and reach with hands and arms. The job requires operation of job-related equipment and driving a vehicle. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds without