Senior Risk Management Leader, Nuclear Programs

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

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