Senior Project Manager

Jobtailor; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

NuScale is seeking a Project Manager for its Small Modular Reactor program in the United States. You will lead internal and external projects, coordinating a diverse team across departments to advance design, fabrication, and deployment while meeting customer value, cost, schedule, and quality targets.

Focus areas include development scope for Product Realization, FOAK activities, and multi-year horizons. You will manage baselines, EV planning, and risk management, reporting progress to

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex projects in the SMR/advanced energy domain.
• Ability to manage baselines, EV, and risk with stakeholder updates.
• Strong cross-functional leadership across multiple disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Manage overall planning and execution for assigned projects per NuScale policies.
• Document baselines, EV planning, and project execution strategy.
• Communicate baselines and requirements to the project team.
• Interface with discipline managers and teams to deliver outcomes.
• Proactively resolve project problems with risk management.
• Provide weekly/monthly status reports on performance, schedule, cost.
• Coordinate management and resource assignment for project execution.
• Develop and control project plans and procedures for efficient delivery.
• Maintain high quality and timely task completion.

Skills

Project Management

Risk Management

Earned Value Management

Stakeholder Communication

Team Leadership

Tools

Project Planning

Project Execution

Baseline Management

Issue Resolution

Cost Management

Job description

• Reporting to the Director, SMR Product Development, this role will manage internal and/or external projects related to NuScale's Small Modular Reactor Technology.
• The Project Manager leads a diverse team with various departments to advance the NuScale Small Modular Reactor design, fabrication, and deployment.
• Focus on development scope for Product Realization ensuring delivery of project to meet customer requirements and deliver customer value while achieving cost, schedule, quality targets and objectives.
• Expected complexity of projects include: non-recurring projects involving significant FOAK activities, multiyear horizon for scope, autonomous work, intensive interface with high or unknown risk significance, large commercial value.

Requirements

• Manage the overall planning and execution of project activities for assigned projects in accordance with NuScale policies and procedures.
• Document and maintain the approved baseline, earned value planning and management, and project execution strategy in a Project Management Plan.
• Communicate the project baseline and requirements to the project team.
• Interface with and support various discipline managers and teams.
• Proactively identify and achieve resolution of project problems and anticipated challenges, including escalation of issues within the NuScale organization when necessary, via effective risk and issue management.
• Provides weekly and monthly status reports focused on project performance, schedule and cost risk mitigations, and issue resolution to project stakeholders.
• Coordinate with performing organization management personnel to authorize work and assign work package managers and qualified resources for project execution.
• Develop, maintain and control project-specific plans and procedures needed for the efficient execution of the project.
• Maintain the group’s standard of high quality and timely completion of tasks.

Demonstrates expertise in project management, focusing on planning, execution, and risk management for complex projects in the Small Modular Reactor domain. Capable of leading diverse teams to achieve project objectives while ensuring adherence to quality, cost, and schedule targets.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Project Management
• Risk Management
• Earned Value Management
• Stakeholder Communication
• Team Leadership

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Project Planning
• Project Execution
• Baseline Management
• Issue Resolution
• Cost Management

Soft Skills

• Effective Communication
• Problem Solving
• Collaboration

Industry Keywords

• Small Modular Reactor Technology
• Product Realization
• FOAK Activities
• Project Management Plan
• Quality Targets