Director, Project Management Office

The Terra Power Isotopes® (TPI™) division has been established to pursue medical isotopes development--advancing nuclear science for significant human health benefits. We seek to support revolutionary radio therapies for treatments of various cancers through the supply of radioisotopes. Terra Power currently has unique access to a supply of thorium for the long-term production of actinium-225 in the growing alpha therapy market and intends to expand into other nuclear related medical treatments.

The Terra Power Isotopes program is an integral part of the Washington State based Terra Power team, a company working to raise living standards globally. In 2006, the company originated with Bill Gates and a group of like-minded visionaries who evaluated the fundamental challenges to raising living standards around the world. Terra Power’s mission is to be a world leader in new nuclear technologies, while developing innovators and future leaders in the nuclear field.

TPI is seeking to hire highly motivated and forward-thinking professionals who are interested in focusing on advanced radiopharmaceutical applications and influencing change within nuclear medicine. Terra Power is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

The Director of the Project Management Office, reporting to the Senior Vice President of Strategy, will lead the TPI Project Office as it matures from a build-stage function into an established discipline governing how work is planned, resourced, measured, and delivered across the enterprise. The portfolio spans engineering, technology, and R&D delivery alongside capital projects execution. The successful candidate will have built and run a project management office or project controls function inside a fast-moving, capital-intensive organization.

• Own the design, governance, and continuous improvement of the TPI Project Office framework, spanning project controls, risk management, and program management.
• Author and maintain Project Office policies, procedures, and templates, and drive the training and adoption that make them hold across the organization.
• Grow, lead, and develop a team of project managers, including hiring, coaching, workload allocation, and performance management.
• Lead portfolio intake and categorization so new and in-flight work is classified consistently and planned to an appropriate level of fidelity, employing a graded approach that scales with project size and resources.
• Hold accountability for project delivery across engineering, technology, and R&D functions, with direct reports embedded as project managers within individual functions.
• Oversee development of work breakdown structures, resource-loaded schedules, and baseline management across the portfolio.
• Own scheduling governance, including resource loading and leveling, integration of external engineering and vendor schedules, and the update and reporting cadence.
• Direct performance measurement through milestone and earned value tracking, variance analysis, and portfolio dashboards, and deliver leadership-level reporting on portfolio health.
• Own the project change request process at portfolio level, keeping change logs and risk registers current and resolved in a timely manner.

• Hold Project Office accountability for capital delivery of production facility expansions covering schedule integration, cost and commitment tracking, and change control.
• Integrate EPC, design-build, and specialty…