Senior Project Manager

Edgewater Technical Associates is seeking qualified candidates for a Senior Project Manager opportunity in Oak Ridge, TN
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We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Project Manager with 20+ years of progressive project management, engineering, construction, and/or capital project experience to lead complex, high-value projects for nuclear, high-hazard, and process manufacturing environments. Seeking candidates with a demonstrated record of safely and successfully managing large-scale capital projects valued at $200 million to $300+ million, with responsibility for project execution from planning and engineering through procurement, construction, commissioning, and closeout.

This position requires strong technical and leadership capabilities, a thorough understanding of progressive engineering practices, quality standards, OSHA requirements, project controls, and risk management, and the ability to effectively lead multidisciplinary teams and contractors.

• Provide overall leadership and direction for complex capital projects with total project values of approximately $200 million to $300+ million.
• Manage projects throughout the full lifecycle, including conceptual planning, engineering and design, procurement, construction, installation, commissioning/startup, turnover, and project closeout.
• Establish project execution strategies, objectives, milestones, schedules, budgets, staffing requirements, and performance expectations.
• Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary teams consisting of engineering, construction, procurement, project controls, quality, safety, operations, subcontractors, and other project stakeholders.
• Apply progressive engineering principles and practices to support efficient project development, constructability, risk reduction, cost management, and successful project delivery.
• Ensure engineering and construction activities comply with applicable quality assurance/quality control standards, OSHA requirements, environmental requirements, codes, regulations, and site-specific procedures.
• Maintain a strong safety culture appropriate for nuclear, high-hazard, and process manufacturing environments, ensuring that safety is fully integrated into project planning and execution.
• Develop, manage, and maintain project baselines for scope, cost, schedule, and performance.
• Monitor project performance using established project controls and proactively identify schedule, cost, technical, quality, safety, and execution risks.
• Oversee contractor and subcontractor performance, including scope development, bid evaluations, contract execution, change management, performance monitoring, and issue resolution.
• Manage project changes and ensure appropriate technical, cost, schedule, quality, and safety reviews are completed prior to implementation.
• Facilitate project reviews, design reviews, constructability reviews, risk assessments, readiness reviews, and executive-level project status meetings.
• Develop and present clear project reports, forecasts, risk assessments, and recommendations to senior management and key stakeholders.
• Build productive relationships with clients, operations personnel, engineering organizations, contractors, regulatory stakeholders, and executive leadership.
• Ensure projects are executed in accordance with organizational governance requirements and applicable federal, state, and site-specific standards.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and mentorship to project managers, engineers, project controls personnel, and other members of the project organization.

• 20+ years of progressive experience in project management, engineering, construction management, or major capital project delivery.
• Demonstrated experience managing capital projects valued at $200 million to $300+ million.
• Significant project experience within a nuclear, high-hazard, and/or process manufacturing environment is required.
• Strong knowledge of progressive engineering practices and the integration of engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and operations.
• Experience with Earned Value Management (EVM/EVMS) and formal project controls systems.
• Thorough understanding of quality standards, quality assurance/quality control programs, and disciplined project execution requirements.
• Strong working knowledge of OSHA requirements and industrial/construction safety practices.
• Demonstrated ability to manage project scope, cost, schedule, risk, quality, safety, contracts, and change control on highly complex projects.
• Experience leading large, multidisciplinary project teams and managing engineering, construction, and specialty contractors.
• Strong understanding of project controls, including scheduling, estimating, cost forecasting, performance measurement, and risk management.
• Proven ability to operate successfully in highly regulated environments with rigorous documentation, configuration, quality, and safety requirements.
• Excellent leadership, communication, negotiation, problem-solving, and…