Senior Controls Specialist - Project Risk Management - Strategic Nuclear Projects Innsbrook; GL

Senior Controls Specialist - Project Risk Management - Strategic Nuclear Projects Innsbrook

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Military service members and veterans with ranks from E5-E9, W1-CW5, or O3-O6, plus appropriate equivalent combination of education and years of experience as outlined below will be considered for this opportunity. At this time, Dominion Energy cannot transfer or sponsor a work visa or employment authorization for this position.

Nuclear Power has played an important role in meeting the world’s electrical energy needs for 50+ years. With power demand rising dramatically in the decades ahead, Nuclear Power will be indispensable in meeting the concurrent challenges of Reliability and Affordability while also limiting air pollution.

To help ensure that its four nuclear power stations are ready to meet the challenges ahead, Dominion Energy is investing hundreds of millions of dollars to update and upgrade key equipment at each site. These improvements are generally large in scale and complexity and require exceptional project management to be implemented with excellence. To support these ongoing efforts, Dominion Energy’s Nuclear Project Team is actively seeking an experienced Senior Controls Specialist – Project Risk Manager (“Specialist”).

Each of Dominion Energy’s four nuclear power stations has onsite Project Managers who are directly accountable for the effective execution of assigned projects. The Specialist, however, is a member of a central project controls office which provides support to the entire fleet and ensures that the highest standards of performance are being achieved. The Specialist will be responsible for overseeing the risk management governance, procedures, and tools utilized at the local level.

Further, they will work to standardize processes across the nuclear fleet and ensure that best practices and lessons are shared between site teams.

More specifically, the Specialist will:

• Lead the development, implementation, and governance of enterprise-level project risk management processes for nuclear construction and capital projects
• Establish a standardized, fleet-wide approach to risk identification, analysis, mitigation, and reporting to ensure early visibility and proactive management of risks that may impact project cost, schedule, and performance
• Develop the end-to-end project risk management lifecycle, including development and maintenance of risk analyses, risk registers, heat maps, and mitigation/contingency plans
• Partner closely with Project Managers across all sites to ensure risks are identified early, clearly defined, and actively managed through the engagement of appropriate stakeholders, resources, and response strategies
• Maintain oversight of risk activities throughout the full project lifecycle to ensure alignment with project objectives and timely escalation of emerging issues
• Serve as the central point of coordination for project risk reporting within the Project Controls department, consolidating site-level inputs into a comprehensive, fleet-wide risk profile
• Ensure consistent execution of risk processes across projects by establishing and enforcing governance frameworks, procedures, tools, and reporting standards
• Provide leadership visibility into aggregate risk exposure, trends, and potential impacts, enabling informed, real‑time decision‑making at the executive level
• Identify and elevate significant project risks to the enterprise risk review board to ensure appropriate awareness, evaluation, and adjudication of risks with broader organizational impact
• Integrate project‑level risk insights into enterprise risk considerations, supporting alignment with corporate risk appetite, regulatory expectations, and strategic objectives
• Partner with project controls, finance, and operations teams to align risk management with planning, estimating,…