Senior Program Manager, Nuclear Asset Sustainability Projects - 518965

About the role

Organization: Nuclear Power Group, Department: NASP APPS, Location: Chattanooga, TN. Position is responsible for collaborating across the enterprise to assess and improve TVA project performance, ensuring that TVA projects are planned and executed in a manner that meet or exceed stakeholder expectations; satisfying all safety, environmental, scope, cost, schedule, and quality goals. The incumbent provides governance and oversight for assigned programmatic functional area(s), performs project assurance through oversight of assigned programs to recognize early warning signs of issues and initiate corrective actions, analyzes project and programmatic performance, identifies improvement opportunities, and guides TVA project management and support teams in implementing best practices and performance improvement initiatives. This role supports planning, estimation, contract & material management, and implementation of plant project modification activities in accordance with applicable TVA, Federal, and state regulations, and supports the development, execution, and upkeep of a Projects Asset Management Plan to identify capital projects needed to sustain the nuclear plant for 80‑100 years of operation.

Responsibilities

• Maintain Procedures, Process and Guidance documents up-to-date with relevant industry, Nuclear Quality Assurance Plan, and regulatory requirements.
• Act as Subject Matter Expert (SME) and provide decision making and/or recommendations for decision making, depending on subject’s level of approval authority.
• Develop and Manage Peer team or Working Group meetings.
• Participate in developing the new processes and procedures to support project performance requirements.
• Propel standardization and process improvements across all TVA project management organizations.
• Develop and execute oversight, benchmarking, and self-assessment plans.
• Lead the compliance efforts to ensure project executing organizations are adhering to TVA Project Management SPPs.
• Utilize the Corrective Action Program (CAP) and Issue Resolution Program to correct deficiencies and improve program performance.
• Collaborate across the enterprise to maintain a high level of technical expertise and business acumen; including industry experience to ensure processes are successful, effective, and documented in a robust standardized procedure system and hierarchy.
• Drive accountability throughout TVA project executing organizations for closing gaps to excellence in project performance.
• Develop and create project and/or program KPIs, performance metrics, and define project and/or program performance reporting requirements.
• Develop and create the accountability and performance measurement systems to analyze, monitor, and trend key project performance indicators.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders across project executing organizations to lead performance improvement initiatives.
• Coordinate with Joint Project Teams, Plant Operations, Senior Management and other TVA organizations to conduct post‑project reviews of significant projects to determine lessons learned and for dissemination and implementation of best practices into future projects.
• Participate in evaluating and implementing the project and/or program management tools.
• Communicate and escalate issues to leadership that pose nuclear safety, regulatory, personal safety, and financial risk.
• Identify training for self and others (TVA and