Risk Manager

BWX Technologies, Inc.; Oak Ridge (TN); On-site; USD 86,000 - 136,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible schedule

Professional development

Career growth

Nuclear excellence culture

Job summary

BWX Technologies, Inc. seeks a Manager, Risk Management at its Oak Ridge Enrichment Operations site in Tennessee.

The role leads the program-management risk framework, ensuring governance, uncertainty assessment, and decision-focused analysis across engineering, operations, supply chain, and finance. The incumbent will drive risk identification, mitigation actions, and executive reporting, collaborating with multiple functions to integrate risk into planning and execution within a regulated

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 10+ years of related experience.
• Experience establishing or leading structured risk-management processes.
• Strong knowledge of qualitative and quantitative risk-analysis methods.
• Ability to integrate risk with scope, schedule, cost, forecasting, and reporting.
• Excellent communication and executive-presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the EO risk-management framework with methods, standards, templates, and thresholds.
• Lead portfolio-level risk identification, aggregation, and analysis across projects.
• Facilitate risk reviews, supplier-risk assessments, and readiness-risk sessions.
• Ensure risks have clear causes, probability, impact, triggers, owners, and mitigations.
• Lead cost/schedule risk analysis and Monte Carlo modeling when needed.
• Ensure mitigation plans have owners, dates, and integration into schedules and budgets.
• Integrate risk exposure into forecasts, contingency, and management reporting.
• Provide decision-focused risk reporting and escalation as needed.
• Coach managers in risk identification, analysis, and mitigation.

Skills

Risk management

Program management

Executive communication

Analytical capability

Matrix leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Finance, Project/Program Management, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field

Job description

At BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT), we are People Strong, Innovation Driven. A U.S.-based company, BWXT is a Fortune 1000 and Defense News Top 100 manufacturing and engineering innovator that provides safe and effective nuclear solutions for global security, clean energy, environmental restoration, nuclear medicine and space exploration. With more than 7,800 employees, BWXT has 14 major operating sites in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. We are the sole manufacturer of naval nuclear reactors for U.S. submarines and aircraft carriers. Our company supplies precision manufactured components, services and fuel for the commercial nuclear power industry across four continents. Our joint ventures provide environmental restoration and operations management at a dozen U.S. Department of Energy and NASA facilities. BWXT’s technology is driving advances in medical radioisotope production in North America and microreactors for various defense and space applications. For more information, visit www.bwxt.com . Follow us on LinkedIn , X , Facebook and Instagram .

Welcome to BWXT

We believe in empowering our employees and cultivating a dynamic workplace that fosters growth, collaboration, and technical excellence. At our Oak Ridge, Tennessee Enrichment Operations site, you will join teams working at the forefront of advanced nuclear manufacturing, precision engineering, and mission-critical national security programs. Whether you're an experienced professional or just starting your career, you’ll find opportunities to challenge yourself, partner with seasoned experts, and contribute to innovation shaping the future of nuclear technology. Our work requires a wide range of skills, and we welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds and career stages who share a passion for meaningful impact and technical advancement.

Position Overview

The Manager, Risk Management leads the program-management risk and opportunity management framework for BWXT Enrichment Operations. This role establishes risk governance, ensures consistent identification and assessment of uncertainty, and provides leadership with clear, decision-oriented analysis. The Manager works across program management, engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, safety, finance, and security to integrate risk management directly into planning and execution. This role requires strong analytical capability, facilitation skill, executive communication, and the ability to challenge assumptions constructively in a regulated nuclear environment.

Your Day to Day as Manager, Risk Management

• Own and maintain the EO risk-management framework, including methods, standards, templates, review cadences, scoring, and escalation thresholds.
• Lead portfolio-level risk identification, aggregation, and analysis; ensure systemic, correlated, or cross-project risks are surfaced early.
• Facilitate risk reviews, assumption reviews, supplier-risk assessments, and readiness-risk sessions for complex or high-consequence initiatives.
• Ensure risks are well-defined with clear causes, probability, impact, triggers, owners, and actionable mitigations.
• Lead qualitative and quantitative risk analysis (cost, schedule, Monte Carlo, scenario modeling) when uncertainty materially affects decisions.
• Ensure mitigation plans have clear actions, owners, dates, and are integrated into schedules, budgets, procurement plans, readiness plans, and resource plans.
• Partner with Project Controls and Finance to integrate risk exposure into forecasts, contingency, reserves, and management reporting.
• Provide clear, decision-focused risk reporting including trends, major drivers, mitigation status, exposure summaries, and required leadership actions.
• Conduct deep dives when exposure is unclear, mitigation is ineffective, or forecasts conflict with risk signals.
• Lead opportunity-management processes that identify ways to improve cost, schedule, safety, reliability, or long-term business value.
• Ensure risk-management practices align with safety, security, quality, regulatory, and compliance requirements.
• Coach Program and Project Managers in risk identification, analysis, mitigation, escalation, and risk-informed decision-making.
• Maintain risk-management tools, dashboards, and data quality; promote consistent risk definitions and information structures across EO.
• Support the Director, Program Management with independent risk assessments, readiness reviews, major decisions, recoveries, and portfolio exposure analysis.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Finance, Project/Program Management, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field.
• A minimum of ten (10) years of related experience is required.
• Significant experience in project/program management, project controls, risk management, engineering, operations, or finance.
• Demonstrated experience establishing or leading structured risk-management processes for complex technical programs or projects.
• Strong knowledge of qualitative and quantitative risk-analysis methods.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate risk with scope, schedule, cost, forecasting, technical planning, and executive reporting.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and executive‑presentation skills.
• Strong analytical capability and judgment; able to challenge assumptions constructively.
• Ability to lead and influence across a matrixed organization.
• Must meet BWXT employment, security, and regulatory requirements.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) or Department of Defense (DOD) security clearance, whichever is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Business, Program/Project Management, Finance, Operations Research, Statistics, or related field.
• PMP, PMI-RMP, AACE certification, or equivalent.
• Experience in nuclear, DOE, enrichment, defense, chemical processing, or other high-consequence regulated industries.
• Experience with Monte Carlo, cost/schedule risk analysis, sensitivity analysis, or probabilistic forecasting.
• Experience managing or developing risk analysts, project-controls staff, or project managers.
• Experience leading risk reviews for capital projects, construction, facility mods, commissioning, or major operational transitions.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Flexible schedules and paid time off (as applicable).
• Professional development and continuing education opportunities.
• A mission-driven culture focused on safety, accountability, and nuclear excellence.
• Opportunities for long-term career growth across BWXT.

Pay: $86,450- $136,000

The base salary range for this position in Tennessee (US-TN) at the start of employment is expected to be between $86,450 and $136,000 per year. However, the base salary offered is based on local job market factors, and may vary further depending on factors specific to the selected job candidate, such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and other objective business considerations. Subject to these considerations, the total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, such as an annual cash incentive in addition to a full range of medical, retirement, and/or other benefits. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided at such time the selected job candidate receives an offer of employment. If hired, the selected job candidate will be employed 'at-will' unless employed at a location and in a position subject to a collective bargaining agreement. The company further reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment, compensation or benefit program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, company or individual department/team performance, and other market factors.

As a federal government contractor, BWX Technologies, Inc. and any subsidiaries, affiliates and related entities (“BWXT” or the “Company”) complies with all federal, state, and local laws and customer requirements regarding health and safety protocols. As such, all BWXT new hires will be required to adhere to applicable Company health and safety requirements within the workplace as a condition of employment.

All candidates must be U.S. citizens. Selected applicants are required to successfully complete a pre-employment check and drug screening. In addition, the position may require the ability to obtain and maintain applicable federal eligibility requirements for access to classified/sensitive information or matter which involves an extensive criminal and financial background investigation, drug test, previous employment, and reference verifications.

BWXT is committed to the concept of Equal Employment Opportunity. We have established procedures to ensure that all personnel actions such as recruitment, compensation, career development, benefits, company-sponsored training and social recreational programs are administered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, protected veteran or other protected status.

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