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Construction Manager

Y-12 National Security Complex
Oak Ridge, TN Full Time
POSTED ON 4/15/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/14/2026
Location: Oak Ridge, TN

Job Title: Construction Manager

Career Level: Manager

Job Specialty: Construction

What You'll Do

  • Manages construction operations (direct hire and subcontractor) from Title I-Title III for assigned projects. Supervises craft personnel, Field Engineers, Subcontract Technical Representatives (STR), field procurement, and Project Controls cost and schedule services.
  • Requests and executes permits, environmental compliance, safety, site mobilization, non-manual staffing, subcontracting, construction execution plans, and job site work rules. Interprets design drawings and specifications, ensures work is performed in a quality manner, and supports project schedule. Supervises planning, installation, inspection, and testing verification. Provides day-to-day direction to

Y-12 Construction staff. Overall planning and organization of total construction effort.

  • Coordinates with NPO and Y-12 Project Management and Program Management. Reviews construction cost, estimates, budgets, forecasts, and schedules. Reviews specifications and drawings for economic constructability. Participates in resolving major problems (e.g., staffing, material delivery, and subcontract administration).
  • Coordinates with Project Managers, Design Engineers, Supply Chain Management, planning and scheduling to set and maintain priorities and project baselines to keep project on schedule and within budget. Directs Y-12 Construction Field Engineers, Superintendents, and STRs in overall field construction efforts, provides recovery plans for project work that deviates from approved baselines, and assists with problem resolution/coordination as required. Reviews/approves estimates and project schedules, and participates in Engineering, Construction, and Management Review meetings.
  • Directs preparation of requisitions for field procured materials, material substitution, services, and equipment. Implements Y-12's VPP and site-level safety programs, Construction safety initiatives, housekeeping, and fire protection on the job site.
  • Responsible for accomplishment of Project milestones for assigned projects.
  • Manages Construction metrics associated with assigned projects.
  • Produces, analyzes and presents performance metrics including cost performance, schedule performance, productivity, quantity curves, manpower curves, and safety performance metrics.
  • Produce, analyzes and presents financial data associated with assigned projects and the overall Construction organization including labor burden performance, material burden performance and annual control baseline performance.

What You Can Expect

  • Meaningful work and unique opportunities to support missions vital to national and global security
  • Top-notch, dedicated colleagues
  • Generous pay and benefits with a stable organization
  • Career advancement and professional development programs
  • Work-life balance fostered through flexible work options and wellness initiatives

Minimum Job Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree: Minimum 7 years of relevant experience.
  • OR 15 or more years of education and/or relevant experience may be considered to satisfy educational and years-of-experience requirements for this posting.
  • In addition, the applicant must meet the requirements of DOE O 426.2A (i.e., High School diploma and 3 years nuclear experience; or a DOE O 426.2A alternative).

Preferred Job Requirements

  • Demonstrated training, experience, and leadership in a team-based environment
  • Prefer relevant experience on projects, including construction/project management experience on large scale ($100M ) DOE or commercial construction projects leading to the thorough understanding of the knowledge described below:
    • Broad, thorough technical/functional and management knowledge to resolve multi-discipline, multi-function, or process problems in a component of a functional area
    • Progressive construction/supervisory experience up to and including experience with coordinating various departments in a functional area with competing priorities
    • Possesses in-depth knowledge of Construction, (to include DOE and Corporate affiliate projects) business, and operations support, resources, practices, processes, and policies needed to solve Construction-related problems and accomplish work
    • Ability to implement company policies and makes recommendations on development of new policies
    • Strong procurement/supply chain experience to assist with complex equipment procurements and delivery
    • Possesses a thorough knowledge of all phases of construction operations relating to field activities, field engineering disciplines, construction technologies, and Project/Construction Management
    • Thorough knowledge of all phases of construction activities (including nuclear, infrastructure, infrastructure reduction, and demolition) as relates to engineering disciplines, cost and scheduling, subcontract administration, and job site management
  • Knowledge of nuclear quality and commercial practice quality standards
  • Advanced knowledge in Excel, Access, PowerPoint and SAP
  • Experience with construction processes and worker protection methods to ensure worker safety
  • Experience with Construction and Building Trades labor laws, issues resolution, and unionized labor
Why Y-12?

You get #morethanajob. We encourage employees to achieve a healthy personal balance among home, work and the community. One of the ways we embrace work-life balance is by offering flexible work arrangements that provide alternatives to the traditional workweek, while still meeting business needs. Top talent and personal commitment mean more to our success than any other factors, so we reward our people with the kinds of benefits that make a positive difference in the quality of their lives. Benefits such as: medical plan, prescription drug plan, vision plan, dental plan, employer matched 401(k) savings plan, disability coverage, education reimbursement and many more. Want to stay healthy and fit but hate the cost of a gym membership? Take advantage of one of our onsite workout facilities and eat healthy in our onsite cafeterias. Much more than a workplace, at Y-12, you can build a career that lasts a lifetime.

Notes

The minimum education and experience for the lowest career level in the job posting range are listed under Minimum Job Requirements. Successful candidates hired into a higher career level than the minimum in the range must meet the requirements listed in the job leveling charts for the career level into which they are being hired.

If a range of Career Levels is posted, i.e., Senior Associate to Senior Specialist, internal applicants already in one of the Career Levels would come across at their current Career Level. Internal applicants currently in a lower level Career Level would move to the lowest posted Career Level.

Requires a Q clearance; however all qualified candidates will be considered regardless of their current clearance status. The ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy Q clearance is required.

This position may require entry into the Material Access Areas (MAA) and participation in the Human Reliability Program (10 C.F.R. Part 712), which requires successful competition of a DOE counterintelligence evaluation and may include a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination.

This position may be categorized as a “designated position” identified by 10 C.F.R. Part 709, requiring successful completion of a DOE counterintelligence evaluation that may include a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination.

CNS is a drug-free workplace. Candidates accepting a job offer will be required to pass a pre-placement physical, drug screening and background investigation. As an employee, you may be required to receive and maintain a security clearance from the United States Department of Energy in order to meet eligibility requirements for access to sensitive information or matter. U.S. citizenship is a requirement for security clearance applicants. All employees are subject to being randomly selected for drug testing without advance notification.

CNS is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment based on merit and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status or disability.

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