Senior Nuclear Construction Program Lead - On-site NM

Turner-; Carlsbad (NM); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead large-scale nuclear construction initiatives in Eunice, New Mexico. The role requires guiding stakeholders, maintaining project governance, and delivering on critical milestones across design, procurement, and construction.

Responsibilities include managing interfaces with architects, engineers, and suppliers, producing formal status reports, and applying best practices for cost control and schedule integrity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in construction management, civil engineering, or equivalent.
• Minimum 15 years of project management experience, preferably in Nuclear, Energy, Chemical, Data Center or other highly-regulated Industrial Facilities.
• PMP certification required.
• Ability to operate independently with minimal oversight.
• Proven experience managing full project lifecycle ownership with assigned budgets.
• Strong financial and commercial acumen, including budget development and cost control.
• Direct experience working in highly regulated environments.
• Superior communication skills, with the ability to converse confidently and professionally with senior project management peers and technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage stakeholders including architects, engineers, and supply chains to deliver compliant projects.
• Analyze, track, and effectively manage critical milestone activities to avoid schedule slips.
• Verify that effective project governance, processes and systems are utilized
• Ensure application of best practice on all projects.
• Production of formal project status reports and other reports as required.
• Monitor the progress of multiple construction projects simultaneously to ensure that the approved design standards are applied correctly.
• Manage the interface between all suppliers through monthly trackers and weekly reviews.
• Manage the flow of project information between the project team through regular meetings and written communications.
• Forecast and update key project milestones.
• Manage and monitor local design teams in accordance with commission criteria.
• Provide technical support to owners, architects, general contractors and regional stakeholders.
• Rapid response to RFIs from the field.
• Provide expertise for cost control, value engineering, and constructability guidance where required.
• Independent review of status reports, drawing submittals, timelines and costs from architects, contractors and suppliers.
• Client management - assist in developing excellent working relationships with Clients, with a view towards maximizing new opportunities.
• Strategic Thinking - provides advice to project teams on approaches that can be adopted to successfully achieve both clients’ objectives and business objectives.
• Knowledge management - ensure that key information and learnings generated from each project are captured.
• Process improvement - Identify ways to improve internal systems and processes
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Project lifecycle management

Budget development

Cost control

Financial analysis

Communication

Regulated environments

SOX control

PMP certification

Independent leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in construction management / civil engineering or equivalent

PMP Certification

Job description

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead large-scale nuclear construction initiatives in Eunice, New Mexico. The role requires guiding stakeholders, maintaining project governance, and delivering on critical milestones across design, procurement, and construction.

Responsibilities include managing interfaces with architects, engineers, and suppliers, producing formal status reports, and applying best practices for cost control and schedule integrity.