Major Projects - Operations Manager

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The Major Projects Operations Manager is responsible for managing and completing the operations scope of a major project at Beaver Valley and fleet project support. This role ensures technical excellence, regulatory compliance, and successful integration of all systems into existing plant infrastructure.

Key Accountabilities

• Provide Operations oversight and technical direction for all design, modification, and testing activities.
• Coordinate all interconnecting modifications to ensure system compatibility and operational readiness between Vistra and the Contractors.
• Direct and approve Operations reviews, ensuring alignment with nuclear safety and licensing requirements.
• Manage and guide support contract organization to maintain quality, scope, and schedule compliance.
• Manage and Lead Independent Operational Reviews to validate design integrity, constructability, and compliance with nuclear standards.
• Interface with regulatory bodies, internal stakeholders, and external contractors to ensure all engineering deliverables meet NRC and INPO requirements.
• Drive resolution of technical issues, ensuring timely decision-making to support project milestones.
• Ensure system designs consider long-term operability, maintainability, and integration with plant operations to include online and offline impacts, procedures, training, turnover and commissioning.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
• 15 years of engineering experience in nuclear power, with at least 5 years in a leadership role
• Shift Technical Advisor (STA) qualified
• Required experience with Ops Impacts, evaluations, training, procedures, site coordination, and Beaver Valley site processes
• Strong knowledge of NRC regulations, INPO guidelines, and industry standards
• Demonstrated ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams on high-complexity projects
• Available for travel for project support

On-time delivery of milestones. Compliance with all nuclear safety, licensing, and quality requirements. Successful completion of independent reviews with minimal corrective actions. Effective coordination between project site leadership, Operations, contractors, and third parties.

Plant Operations Company Vistra Nuclear Operations Company

Shippingport, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania

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Vistra (NYSE: VST) is a leading Fortune 500 integrated retail electricity and power generation company based in Irving, Texas, that provides essential power resources to customers, businesses, and communities from California to Maine. Vistra is the largest competitive power generator in the U.S., with a capacity of approximately 41,000 megawatts, or enough to power 20 million homes, operating in all of the major competitive wholesale markets in the country.

Vistra is a leader in the energy transformation and expansion with an unyielding focus on reliability, affordability, and sustainability, powered by a diverse portfolio that includes natural gas, nuclear, coal, solar, and battery energy storage facilities.

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