Senior Project Manager

About the Role

The Senior Project Manager leads complex, high-visibility projects supporting BWXT Enrichment Operations at our Oak Ridge, Tennessee site. This role converts business, technical, operational, and regulatory objectives into structured project plans and drives those plans to safe, compliant, and predictable completion. The position requires strong project-management discipline, technical curiosity, and sound judgment in a highly regulated nuclear environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead assigned projects from initiation through planning, execution, turnover, and closeout.
• Define clear scope, objectives, deliverables, assumptions, constraints, and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain accountability for integrated project performance including safety, security, quality, technical execution, cost, schedule, risk, and compliance.
• Develop project charters, execution plans, WBS structures, schedules, resource needs, and baseline controls.
• Build and maintain integrated schedules; assess critical path, dependencies, constraints, and recovery needs.
• Partner with Finance and Project Controls to establish budgets, forecasts, variances, and cost-control strategies.
• Provide accurate, decision-oriented project reporting for senior leadership.
• Identify risks and opportunities early; maintain active risk registers and drive timely resolution.
• Evaluate proposed changes, coordinate cross-functional impacts, control baselines, and prevent unauthorized scope expansion.
• Integrate engineering, procurement, construction, readiness, commissioning, operations, and supplier activities.
• Ensure compliance with nuclear safety, quality assurance, environmental, security, and regulatory requirements.
• Lead stakeholder communication, customer engagement, and cross-functional alignment.
• Coordinate resource needs with functional managers; escalate constraints early.
• Lead problem-solving and structured recovery planning when project conditions deteriorate.
• Plan turnover and closeout requirements early; ensure readiness, documentation, and ownership transitions.
• Mentor junior project managers and support continuous improvement of project-management processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, Project Management, Operations, or related discipline.
• At least 12 years of technical experience with significant progressive experience managing complex technical, engineering, manufacturing, construction, or capital projects.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams in a matrixed environment.
• Strong knowledge of scope, schedule, cost, risk, change, and stakeholder management.
• Experience developing integrated schedules, baselines, budgets, and recovery plans.
• Strong financial acumen and variance-analysis capability.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical teams, leadership, customers, suppliers, and contractors.
• Ability to make timely, risk-informed decisions with incomplete information.
• Must be able to meet BWXT employment, security, access, and regulatory requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Engineering or Business.
• PMP or equivalent certification.
• Experience in nuclear, DOE, enrichment, defense, chemical-processing, or other regulated industries.
• Experience managing EPC interfaces, commissioning, startup, or operational-readiness efforts.
• Experience managing capital projects, facility modifications, or large equipment installations.

Pay

The base salary range for this position in Tennessee (US-TN) at the start of employment is expected to be between $131,480 and $207,000 per year. However, the base salary offered is based on local job market factors and may vary further depending on factors specific to the selected job candidate, such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and other objective business considerations.