Senior Project Manager

Job Description

Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) is seeking to hire multiple Senior Project Managers to join our Project Management Office. The Senior Project Manager provides leadership and overall management for capital asset projects from project initiation through design, construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout. The position is accountable for integrating technical, cost, schedule, risk, safety, quality, procurement, and stakeholder requirements to deliver approved project scope within authorized performance baselines.

The Senior Project Manager serves as the principal contractor focal point for project sponsor, functional organizations, subcontractors, and project-controls personnel.

Responsibilities

Project Leadership

• Lead the Integrated Project Team and establish clear roles, responsibilities, decision authorities, and project-management expectations.
• Plan, manage, and authorize work necessary to achieve objectives.
• Identify and document risk-informed tailoring opportunities, as well as required equivalencies, exemptions, variances, or conflict resolutions.
• Ensure project activities comply with contractual requirements, DOE directives, site procedures, applicable codes and standards, environmental requirements, and integrated safety-management principles.
  
  

Scope, Baseline, Cost, and Schedule Management

• Define, validate, and maintain project scope; develop or approve project criteria, the Project Statement of Work, Work Breakdown Structure, and supporting planning documents.
• Lead development, implementation, and maintenance of the project performance measurement baseline, including scope, schedule, budget, resource requirements, contingency, and management reserve as applicable.
• Ensure development and maintenance of master schedule aligned with the project Work Breakdown Structure and control accounts.
• Review project performance, forecasted cost and schedule outcomes, Estimate at Completion, and risk exposure; direct timely corrective actions when performance thresholds are exceeded.
• Manage baseline changes through approved change-control processes, ensuring changes to scope, cost, schedule, and funding are documented, evaluated, authorized, and incorporated appropriately.
• Ensure scope changes are handled through formal written direction and approved baseline-change processes rather than absorbed within the existing project baseline.
  
  

Earned Value Management and Performance Reporting

• Ensure compliance with a tailored approach utilizing Earned Value Management System (EVMS) light and applicable customer reporting requirements.
• Review project budget plans, work packages, planning packages, performance data, variance analyses, estimates to complete, and corrective-action plans.
• Ensure accurate, timely, and defensible project status reporting to DOE and senior management, including cost and schedule performance, trends, risks, issues, and recovery actions.
• Lead preparation and review of required project reviews, briefings, monthly reports, baseline documentation
  
  

Design, Construction, Procurement, and Turnover

• Direct integration of conceptual design, preliminary and final design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, readiness activities, turnover, and closeout.
• Oversee subcontract and supplier performance, including acquisition strategy, bid-package development, contract execution, technical performance, claims avoidance, and change management.
• Coordinate engineering, construction, operations, nuclear safety, quality assurance, environmental compliance, safeguards/security, and other supporting functions.
• Resolve complex technical, construction, operational, and stakeholder-interface issues that could affect project objectives.
• Ensure completion of acceptance, turnover, capitalization, records, lessons learned, and closeout activities.
  
  

Risk, Safety, and Quality

• Ensure project risks and opportunities are identified, analyzed, documented, owned, monitored, and mitigated throughout the project life cycle.
• Promote an active safety culture and ensure work is planned and performed in accordance with approved safety, quality, and work-control requirements.
• Ensure constructability, value engineering, quality assurance, configuration management, and readiness considerations are incorporated at appropriate project phases.
  
  

Key Competencies

• DOE project-management governance
• Integrated project-team leadership
• Safety and quality leadership
• Scope definition and requirements management
• EVMS, cost, schedule, and baseline management
• Risk and opportunity management
• Construction and subcontract management
• Executive communication and customer engagement
• Problem-solving and corrective-action leadership
  
  

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, or a related technical field; a combination of education and relevant experience will be considered.
• 10 years of progressively responsible project-management experience, including management of major capital construction, infrastructure, industrial, environmental, or nuclear projects.
• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary teams through planning, design, construction, commissioning, and turnover.
• Experience managing cost, schedule, scope, risk, contracts, and change control for large, complex projects.
• Working knowledge of DOE capital-asset project-management principles, integrated project teams, and project execution planning.
• Experience using earned value management, project controls, cost forecasting, and integrated scheduling tools, including Primavera P6 or comparable systems.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• For ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance, US Citizenship is Legally Required.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing DOE or NNSA Line Item capital projects under DOE Order 413.3C or predecessor requirements.
• Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Construction Manager (CCM), Professional Engineer (PE), or comparable certification.
• Experience with EVMS, baseline reviews, external project reviews, and DOE performance reporting.
• Knowledge of nuclear, radiological, environmental, industrial, or high-hazard facility requirements.
• Experience with acquisition strategy, subcontract administration, value engineering, commissioning, startup, operational readiness, and project closeout.
  
  

About Us

"We put science to work!"

Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) is a multi-program laboratory applying state of the art science and practical, high-value, cost-effective solutions to complex technical problems to protect the nation. Located at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Savannah River Site (SRS) in Aiken SC, the laboratory develops and deploys innovative technologies to address some of the nation’s environmental, energy, and national security challenges.

Battelle Savannah River Alliance (BSRA) is constantly assessing trends to provide the best possible benefits to our workforce. We also negotiate cost effective premiums that will meet the needs of our evolving workforce.

Some of the *Benefits offered to employees include:

• Benefits vary based upon employment status
• Highly competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision options including HSA options with company provided seed
• Short- & Long-Term Disability (company paid)
• Life Insurance Non-Contributary 1X salary (company paid)
• AD&D Non-contributary 1x salary (company paid)
• Savings & Investment plan:
• Qualified Non-Elective Company Contribution of 5% each pay period with immediate vesting
• Company match 50 cents/dollar up to 8% (5 yrs. vesting in company match)
• Contributory Life Insurance up to 5x Salary with $1M Cap
• Contributory AD&D (employee, spouse and children)
• Paid Time Off
• Employee Assistance Plan
• SRNL offers a competitive relocation package to ease the transition process. Domestic and international relocation assistance is available for certain positions.
  

For more information about our benefits, working here, and living here, visit the “About” tab at www.srnl.doe.gov .

BSRA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. BSRA is also committed to making our workplace accessible to individuals with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations, upon request, for individuals to participate in the application and hiring process. Please email us at SRNLRecruiting@srnl.doe.gov with any questions regarding the hiring process or to request an accommodation.

About The Team

The Operations & Facilities (O&F) Division of SRNL provides a team focused infrastructure upgrades for nuclear and industrial facilities supporting SRNL. O&F Engineering is looking for people who can use their talents and experience to help build state of the art business programs as SRNL continues to use it diverse creative staff to deliver the highest quality programs to its customer.