Senior Nuclear Project Leader: Complex Plant Programs

Sargent & Lundy; Southport (NC); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Plans

401(k)

Paid Time Off

Flexible Work Arrangements

Job summary

Sargent & Lundy seeks a Project Manager to lead nuclear projects at Brunswick Nuclear Station in Southport, NC. You will plan, coordinate, execute, and closeout complex projects, interacting with engineering, construction, operations, and client teams.

Responsibilities include developing schedules, risk logs, cost controls, and status reports, while maintaining safety and quality standards in a regulated environment. Hybrid work with on-site support 2–4 days weekly.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, project management, business, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of applicable experience in nuclear power, utility, engineering, construction, project management, or a related technical environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary project teams with increasing responsibility.
• Experience managing project scope, cost, schedule, risk, resources, contracts, and client communication.
• Experience supporting projects in an operating nuclear plant or other highly regulated industrial environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead nuclear projects through planning, engineering, procurement, implementation, testing, turnover, and closeout.
• Establish and maintain project scope, schedule, budget, staffing plans, execution strategies, and performance objectives.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary project teams across engineering, construction, operations, maintenance, testing, procurement, quality, and project-controls organizations.
• Serve as the primary client and station point of contact for project matters.
• Develop and maintain project work plans, integrated schedules, milestone plans, risk registers, action-item logs, decision logs, and status reports.
• Monitor project cost, schedule, resource loading, commitments, forecasts, changes, and performance trends.
• Lead project meetings, readiness reviews, design reviews, planning sessions, and execution coordination meetings.
• Identify project risks, constraints, interfaces, and emerging issues; develop mitigation strategies.
• Manage scope development and change control, including evaluation of impacts to cost, schedule, quality, safety, configuration, and implementation readiness.
• Coordinate vendor, contractor, and supplier interfaces, including technical deliverables and procurement activities.
• Support work-order development, outage planning, construction planning, startup, testing, turnover, and closeout activities as applicable to the assigned project.
• Ensure project deliverables are complete, technically accurate, and issued in accordance with requirements.
• Promote nuclear safety, quality assurance, configuration control, human performance, and procedural adherence.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Stakeholder communication

Risk management

Regulatory compliance

Nuclear plant experience

Education

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

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Cost-control systems

Earned-value concepts

Job description

Sargent & Lundy seeks a Project Manager to lead nuclear projects at Brunswick Nuclear Station in Southport, NC. You will plan, coordinate, execute, and closeout complex projects, interacting with engineering, construction, operations, and client teams.

Responsibilities include developing schedules, risk logs, cost controls, and status reports, while maintaining safety and quality standards in a regulated environment. Hybrid work with on-site support 2–4 days weekly.