Sargent & Lundy is seeking a Project Manager to support nuclear power projects at Brunswick Nuclear Station. This position will lead the planning, coordination, execution, control, and closeout of complex nuclear projects from initiation through completion.
The successful candidate will serve as a primary point of contact for assigned projects and will coordinate multidisciplinary engineering, project controls, procurement, construction, testing, operations, maintenance, quality, and client stakeholders. The role requires strong project leadership, disciplined execution, and the ability to deliver work safely, accurately, and in accordance with applicable station, client, regulatory, and quality requirements. As a Senior Project Manager, you will:
- Lead assigned nuclear projects through planning, engineering, procurement, implementation, testing, turnover, and closeout.
- Establish and maintain project scope, schedule, budget, staffing plans, execution strategies, and performance objectives.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary project teams and maintain alignment among engineering, construction, operations, maintenance, testing, procurement, quality, and project-controls organizations.
- Serve as the primary client and station point of contact for project matters.
- Develop and maintain project work plans, integrated schedules, milestone plans, risk registers, action-item logs, decision logs, and status reports.
- Monitor project cost, schedule, resource loading, commitments, forecasts, changes, and performance trends.
- Lead project meetings, readiness reviews, design reviews, planning sessions, walkdowns, and execution coordination meetings.
- Identify project risks, constraints, interfaces, and emerging issues; develop mitigation strategies and escalate matters when appropriate.
- Manage scope development and change control, including evaluation of impacts to cost, schedule, quality, safety, configuration, and implementation readiness.
- Coordinate vendor, contractor, and supplier interfaces, including technical deliverables, procurement activities, field support, and performance follow-up.
- Support work-order development, outage planning, construction planning, startup, testing, turnover, and closeout activities as applicable to the assigned project.
- Ensure project deliverables are complete, technically accurate, properly reviewed, and issued in accordance with client and Sargent & Lundy requirements.
- Promote nuclear safety, quality assurance, configuration control, human performance, and procedural adherence throughout project execution.
- Maintain effective communication with station leadership, client project managers, responsible engineers, discipline leads, suppliers, contractors, and field personnel.
- Support lessons learned, continuous improvement, and knowledge transfer across project teams.
Work Environment:
This position is based on a hybrid work schedule supporting Brunswick Nuclear Station in Southport, NC and will require on-site support 2-4 days a week. The role may require occasional travel to Sargent & Lundy offices, client locations, vendor facilities, or other project sites. Additional hours or outage-period support may be required based on project and station needs.
