Digital Project Manager- Plant Hatch

Digital Project Manager
- Plant Hatch

This position reports to the Manager of Fleet Digital Projects. Responsibilities for all associated activities with Engineering, contracting, procurement, installation, start up, closure, and maintaining appropriate project controls throughout the project. The successful candidate will have authority and be held accountable for developing a project scope, budget, and schedule as well as an implementation plan for completing assigned projects while meeting the project goals.

(Education, Experience, Knowledge, Skills)

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related discipline strongly preferred, but not required.

• Project Management certification (PMP), or the ability to obtain within 1 year.

• Advanced degrees, Professional Engineer (PE) license, and other degrees/certifications will be considered based upon the candidate’s experience.

• Minimum three (3) years of nuclear plant experience in Engineering, Maintenance or Operations or equivalent military experience

• Minimum three (3) years utilizing project management type skills

• Build and sustain relationships across all levels of the organization including executive management and external stakeholders such as the NRC, INPO, etc.

• Have a working knowledge of project control techniques, design, work management, and procurement processes.

• Focus on understanding the business and leveraging that knowledge to partner with management to identify and monitor strategic, financial, operational and compliance risks, including emerging trends.

• The ability to solve problems and make sound judgments, based on experience and proper risk evaluation tools, to provide timely and appropriate resolutions to issues that might impact personnel safety, plant performance, budget, and project execution.

• The ability to communicate issues and drive problem resolution through various levels of management.

• Ability to effectively interface, build, and sustain relationships with other departments.

• Working knowledge of plant operations, design engineering and maintenance practices.

• Thorough knowledge of safety policies, procedures, and guidelines.

• Excellent written and oral communications skills.

• Demonstrates Southern Company Values – Safety First, Intentional Inclusion, Superior Performance, and Act with Integrity

• Demonstrate ability to make independent prudent decisions and recognize when it is appropriate to elevate the decision

• Critical decision-making ability to assess risk at multiple levels and understand the consequences and impacts of actions.

• Possess leadership courage to challenge department and station personnel to achieve high performance and excellent standards.

• Make decisions and recommendations that are recognized as authoritative and that have an important impact on project activities and plant health initiatives.

• Committed to success of employees, customers, and shareholders.

• Self-directed with strong initiative.

• Results oriented and customer focused.

Southern Nuclear , a subsidiary of Southern Company (NYSE: SO), is a leader among the nation’s nuclear energy facility operators and an innovator in advanced nuclear technologies. Southern Nuclear is an essential part of Southern Company’s energy portfolio, operating over 8,200 MW across eight nuclear energy units in Alabama and Georgia at the Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant near Dothan, Ala.,

the Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant near Baxley, Ga., and the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant near Waynesboro, Ga.

The company recently achieved commercial operation on Vogtle Units 3&4, representing an historic achievement for the nuclear industry and the country. Vogtle Units 3&4 are the first new nuclear units to reach commercial operation and be built in the United States in the last three decades. Southern Nuclear is a recognized leader in the industry in nuclear and fuel innovation, having been the first to deploy Accident Tolerant Fuels and winning over 10 consecutive Top Innovative Practice (TIP) Awards and eight EPRI awards.

For more than 40 years, Southern Nuclear has operated nuclear energy facilities at the highest levels of safety and reliability,…