Project Manager Nuclear Projects I II or III

A commercial nuclear power facility is hiring a senior project professional to lead small to medium capital projects supporting refueling outages, forced outages, and online maintenance. This role owns planning, budget, procurement, work-package readiness, risk, resource coordination, execution, and recovery when field work or schedules move off plan.

The strongest candidates have led commercial nuclear plant modifications or comparable regulated capital work and can operate confidently with engineering, operations, maintenance, project controls, finance, vendors, and senior leadership. Candidates may be considered for Level I, II, or III based on the distinct education, certification, project-management, or scheduling criteria below.

Location: Richland, Washington

Schedule: Monday through Thursday, four 10-hour days

Work Setting: Onsite

Role Type: Contract

Contract Duration: Long-term contract opportunity with the ability to extend over 5-10 years

Openings: 1

Citizenship: U.S. citizenship required

Pay Rate: $40.75-$103.50 per hour, depending on approved level, experience, and client approval

Per Diem: $216 per day, seven days per week, for eligible contractors who maintain a permanent residence more than 100 miles from the site; approximately $78,840 tax-free over the first 12 months

Benefits

• Eligible CRG contract employees may access medical, dental, and vision coverage after 30 days of employment.
• Weekly pay, direct deposit, referral bonus opportunities, and ongoing support from CRG recruiting and account management.
• 401(k) eligibility begins after 12 months as a CRG employee.
• Washington paid sick leave accrues at a minimum of one hour for every 40 hours worked, equivalent to 52 hours or 6.5 eight-hour days over a 2,080-hour work year.
• Benefit eligibility, plan details, waiting periods, employee costs, and per diem tax eligibility are confirmed during onboarding.

Responsibilities

• Lead project teams of approximately five to ten people and establish clear priorities across engineering, planning, procurement, construction, operations, maintenance, finance, and project controls.
• Manage small to medium capital projects for refueling outages, forced outages, and online maintenance from scope development through implementation, turnover, and closeout.
• Build and control project plans, schedules, budgets, resource loading, long-range strategies, and execution milestones with minimal oversight.
• Coordinate work-package preparation, parts and material procurement, vendor readiness, industrial and nuclear safety, ALARA planning, and field implementation.
• Track commitments, actuals, forecasts, and cost-to-complete; explain variances and keep work within approved funding.
• Resolve schedule delays, resource conflicts, emergent work, and interface issues while protecting safety, quality, and plant priorities.
• Develop and administer contracts; coordinate vendors, subcontractors, client representatives, engineers, and line managers.
• Prepare decision-ready written and oral communications for project teams, stakeholders, and senior management.
• Apply error-reduction and human-performance tools, cost-effective work-execution methods, self-assessment practices, and corrective-action requirements.
• Support outage execution, including Outage Control Center coordination, when assigned.
• Perform authorized business travel when approved by the technical representative.

Qualifications

• Level I: Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management, business, or a related field plus 14 years of technical experience; OR an associate degree plus 16 years; OR a high school diploma/GED plus 18 years. A related advanced degree may substitute for two years of experience. A current project-management certification is required.
• Level II: Related advanced degree plus bachelor’s degree and 12 years of project-management experience in a multifaceted or regulated industrial environment; OR bachelor’s degree plus 14 years; OR associate degree plus 16 years; OR high school diploma/GED plus 18 years. Up to five years may be nuclear-industry experience directing project-management activities or applying project-management principles.
• Level II candidates must show project-management experience with commercial nuclear plant system replacements or upgrades.
• Level III: Bachelor’s degree plus at least eight years of project scheduling, including four years on large-scale or mega projects.
• Level III requires lifecycle construction-project experience across engineering, procurement, and construction; advanced Primavera P6 proficiency; and working knowledge of earned value management and risk management.
• All levels require strong analytical, organizational, presentation, stakeholder-management, and team leadership skills.
• All candidates must be able to work onsite on the stated schedule and meet citizenship and site-access requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Recent commercial nuclear power plant project, outage, work-management, maintenance, operations, construction, or major-modification experience.
• PMP or another verifiable project-management credential; construction-management certification is a plus.
• Previous Reactor Operator or Senior Reactor Operator license or certification.
• Direct-supervisor or project-manager experience in a commercial nuclear environment.
• Plant production coordination, work-management, outage-control, or implementation experience.
• For the Level III scheduling lane, nuclear, renewable-energy, or major construction scheduling experience beyond the minimum requirements.