Entry-Level Nuclear Project Manager

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We believe in empowering our employees and cultivating a dynamic workplace that fosters growth and collaboration. Whether you’re an experienced professional or just starting your career, you'll find opportunities to challenge yourself, learn from seasoned experts, and contribute to nuclear innovation. We required a diverse range of skills to support our work in the markets that drive our business and welcome candidates from all backgrounds and life stages who are passionate about making a difference.

Position Overview: The Entry-Level Project Manager supports the planning, coordination, monitoring, and documentation of assigned HPDU project activities. The role is intended for an early-career professional who understands fundamental project management concepts and is developing the judgment, technical context, and stakeholder-management skills needed to independently manage increasingly complex work. The position works under the direction of more experienced project management personnel while owning clearly defined tasks, deliverables, action tracking, and smaller work packages.

Location:

On-site in Jonesborough, Tennessee

Your Day to Day as a Project Manager, HPDU:

• Supports development and maintenance of project execution plans, milestone lists, action registers, risk registers, decision logs, and project status information.
• Coordinates assigned project activities across engineering, procurement, manufacturing/construction, quality, operations, project controls, and other supporting organizations.
• Owns and drives closure of assigned action items; confirm owners, required completion dates, dependencies, and evidence of completion.
• Assists with schedule development and maintenance by collecting activity status, validating forecast dates, identifying constraints, and communicating emerging delays.
• Supports cost management activities by tracking commitments, actuals, forecasts, and variances for assigned scope in coordination with project controls and responsible managers.
• Prepares routine project reports, meeting materials, look-ahead summaries, milestone status, action aging, and concise issue summaries for review by project leadership.
• Maintains project documentation and ensure records are organized, current, and retrievable in accordance with applicable project and company requirements.
• Supports risk and opportunity identification by documenting potential impacts, owners, mitigation actions, and due dates; follow through on mitigation completion.
• Supports formal change control by gathering scope, schedule, cost, risk, and stakeholder impacts for proposed changes.
• Participates in supplier,…