Senior Manager, Project Controls

Terra Power is a nuclear technology company based in Bellevue, Washington. At its core, the company is working to raise living standards globally through a more affordable, secure, and environmentally friendly form of nuclear energy along with innovations in medical isotopes to improve human health. In 2006, Terra Power originated with Bill Gates and a group of like-minded visionaries who evaluated the fundamental challenges to raising living standards around the world.

They recognized energy access was crucial to the health and economic well-being of communities and decided that the private sector needed to take action and create energy sources that would advance global energy deployment. Terra Power's mission is to be a world leader in new nuclear technologies, while developing innovators and future leaders in the nuclear field. As a result, the company's activities in the fields of nuclear energy and related sciences are yielding significant innovations in the safety and economics of nuclear power, hybrid energy and medical applications – all for significant human health benefits.

Terra Power is seeking to hire highly motivated and forward-thinking professionals who are interested in focusing on advanced nuclear reactor research and development and influencing change within the nuclear power landscape and bringing forward the critical production of medical isotopes.

Terra Power is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

The Senior Manager, EPC Progress & Performance is a key member of the Natrium Project Management Organization (PMO) responsible for developing and implementing innovative, lean, and scalable Owner-side processes to monitor the progress and performance of Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) partners and contractors. This role establishes the frameworks, data requirements, governance, and performance insights Terra Power needs to proactively manage EPC risk, identify emerging issues early, support timely course correction, and improve predictability across the Natrium program.

The position will initially focus on Kemmerer Unit 1 (KU1) while building processes and lessons learned that can be applied to future Natrium projects.

• Develop Terra Power processes for evaluating EPC partner and contractor execution plans for alignment with Natrium objectives, contractual commitments, sequencing requirements, and overall achievability.
• Establish Owner-side processes for monitoring EPC progress, productivity, schedule performance, forecast reliability, and execution trends across engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning.
• Define leading and lagging indicators that enable early identification of performance degradation, emerging risks, schedule pressure, productivity concerns, and other areas requiring intervention.
• Establish Terra Power requirements for participation in contractor recovery planning, mitigation development, and course correction discussions to prevent surprises and support timely management action.
• Evaluate critical-path, near-critical-path, float, progress, productivity, and forecast trends and translate findings into clear recommendations for project leadership.

• Develop and maintain a Terra Power Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), cost-coding, and project performance architecture that aligns with EPC partner systems, Terra Power asset-management processes, and enterprise reporting needs.
• Define the cost, schedule, progress, productivity, forecast, and performance data EPC partners and contractors are required to provide to Terra Power, including appropriate coding, quality, and frequency standards.
• Define daily, weekly, and monthly monitoring data, dashboards, visualizations, narratives, and management metrics required from EPC partners and contractors.
• Structure project data to support benchmarking, estimating, continuous improvement, predictive analytics, and potential machine-learning applications for KU1 and future Natrium projects.
• Partner with Project Controls, Finance, Commercial, Construction, Engineering, Procurement, and Asset Management to establish consistent project data and performance-measurement practices.

• Define Terra Power change-management…