Project Delivery Test Manager

About the Role

The Extended Power Uprate Project Delivery Test Manager provides strategic leadership, technical oversight, and governance for all testing and validation activities across assigned projects or the portfolio. This role ensures testing activities are planned, executed, and documented in accordance with project requirements, engineering standards, regulatory expectations, and organizational quality frameworks. The Test Manager partners closely with Project Managers, Engineering Leads, Operations, and Quality organizations to ensure readiness, manage risks, and verify that systems meet performance, safety, and functional requirements prior to delivery or deployment.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior authority for test readiness reviews, test conduct, issue escalation, system/component flushing to avoid foreign material, and formal closeout, ensuring compliance with approved procedures, safety requirements, and quality standards.
• Identify and manage technical and programmatic risks affecting system performance, integration, and test execution.
• Provide governance over all test documentation, including plans, procedures, logs, anomaly reports, and final test reports.
• Coordinate with Project Delivery, Engineering Technical Authority, Quality Assurance, and Configuration Management to maintain alignment across requirements, baselines, and verification pathways.
• Guide team members through complex technical and schedule challenges, facilitate collaborative problem-solving, and ensure coordination across disciplines during planning, execution, and closeout of test activities.
• Foster a culture of accountability, safety, and technical rigor while mentoring team members and promoting effective communication and adherence to testing processes and standards.
• Lead team engagement during readiness reviews, test execution, issue resolution, and post-test evaluations to ensure successful and efficient delivery of testing outcomes.
• Develop comprehensive test strategies, verification plans, and acceptance criteria for complex engineering or technical systems.
• Oversee planning and execution of all test phases, including component testing, system integration testing, factory acceptance testing, field testing, and commissioning.
• Communicate status, risks, issues, and constraints to leadership, lead and mentor test engineering teams, and support change management processes.
• Integrate lessons learned and continuous improvement practices into future testing efforts.
• Support ERO outage activities, including OCC requirements.

Requirements

Requires one of the following combinations of education and experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field from an accredited college or university and eighteen years of relevant experience in system testing, commissioning, validation, or verification within Operations, Work Control Management, Engineering, Nuclear, Military, or other complex technical environments.
• Associate’s degree from an accredited college or university and twenty years of relevant experience in the fields listed above.
• High School Diploma/GED and twenty-two years of relevant experience in the fields listed above.

Must have demonstrated leadership experience managing cross-functional test teams, complex schedules, risks, and interfaces across multiple disciplines.

Pay

Pay Range: $167,142.00 - $250,714.00 annually. Midpoint: $208,928.00. Typically, selected candidates are hired between the minimum and midpoint of the range, based on applicable experience, qualifications, market rate, internal equity, and budgetary allowances.

Incentive Compensation: Offers will be negotiated based on each candidate's qualifications. This role may be eligible to participate in the annual incentive plan, with incentives earned based on employee performance against defined metrics and company goals.

Benefits

• Retirement benefits through three programs: Washington State Public Employees' Retirement System pension plan (PERS), a 401(k) savings plan with employer match, and a 457(b) savings plan.
• Multiple options for medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance coverage.
• Voluntary benefits including flexible spending accounts (FSAs), tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment, childcare subsidies, health reimbursement arrangement (HRA VEBA), health savings account (HSA), supplemental life insurances, and credit monitoring/identity theft insurance.
• Personal time accrual starting at 160 hours per year, with accruals increasing at various service intervals.
• Nine paid holidays per calendar year.

Washington State has no state income tax, and the Tri-Cities area offers a cost-of-living lower than the national average.