R&D Project Manager
About the role
Want to lead the future of nuclear energy? The Nuclear Science & Technology (NS&T) directorate at Idaho National Laboratory is hiring R&D Project Managers to work within our Nuclear Fuels and Materials division. You will manage brilliant and hard-working teams who own the design, fabrication, irradiation, shipment, and post-irradiation examination of nuclear fuel and materials experiments, overseeing scope, budget, schedule, and technical milestones from start to completion. You will provide leadership across multiple disciplines including quality, engineering, regulatory, and experiment instrumentation, represent NS&T in business discussions with national and international partners, and prepare and execute experiment plans and engineering deliverables in accordance with applicable quality standards enabling the nuclear energy renaissance for the nation.
Responsibilities
- Manage teams responsible for design, analysis, fabrication, irradiation, shipment, and examination of first-of-a-kind experiments planned for irradiation in a nuclear reactor and post-irradiation examinations in nuclear facilities.
- Manage technical experiment interfaces, provide leadership to the experiment team, and gather, analyze, and implement corrective actions for experiment risk, cost, scope, and schedule, including technical milestones.
- Provide direction to and coordination among highly specialized teams of research scientists and engineers focused on nuclear fuel and material testing (irradiation and post-irradiation