Project Manager, HPDU

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The Mid-Career Project Manager owns and drives defined portions of the HPDU Project and is accountable for integrating scope, schedule, cost, risk, resources, and stakeholder commitments for assigned work. The role independently leads cross-functional execution within established project governance, anticipates problems, develops recovery strategies, and elevates issues requiring leadership action. This level is expected to move beyond status collection and actively influence outcomes.

On-site in Jonesborough, Tennessee

• Owns assigned HPDU work packages or subprojects from planning through execution, turnover, and closeout, with accountability for scope, schedule, cost, risk, quality, and interface management.
• Develops integrated execution strategies that align engineering, procurement, supplier, manufacturing/construction, quality, testing, operations, and project controls activities.
• Establishes deliverables, milestones, completion criteria, roles, interfaces, assumptions, and constraints for assigned scope.
• Maintains credible plans and schedules; evaluate critical and near-critical paths, interface dates, resource constraints, and milestone risk; lead development of recovery actions when performance deviates from plan.
• Manages cost performance for assigned scope through budget awareness, commitments, actuals, forecasting, estimate-to-complete inputs, variance analysis, and corrective-action planning.
• Leads cross-functional project meetings and ensures decisions, actions, owners, due dates, and escalation paths are clear and documented.
• Identifies and actively manages project risks and opportunities, including quantitative or qualitative assessment of probability, consequence, mitigation effectiveness, and residual exposure as appropriate.
• Leads issue resolution by defining the problem, identifying root causes and dependencies, evaluating options, coordinating stakeholders, and driving an agreed path to closure.
• Evaluates proposed changes for impacts to scope, schedule, cost, resources, risk, interfaces, and downstream work; support or lead formal change-control packages as assigned.
• Coordinates supplier and subcontractor performance for assigned scope, including deliverables, need dates, technical interfaces, recovery actions, and escalation of performance concerns.
• Prepares and presents concise project performance information to HPDU leadership, including accomplishments, forecast, milestone health, risk, cost trends, decisions required, and recovery plans.
• Supports readiness reviews, management reviews, project assessments, phase-gate decisions, turnover, startup/testing, and closeout activities.
• Provides day-to-day guidance to entry-level project managers, project coordinators, and team members on project management expectations and execution discipline.
• Ensures assigned project activities comply with applicable BWXT policies, procedures, quality requirements, safety expectations, contractual requirements, and regulatory obligations.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Construction Management, Project Management, or related discipline,…