Senior Nuclear Maintenance Manager

Location: Richland, WA

Employment Type: Contract

Contract Length: 07/06/2026 to 07/05/2027

Schedule: 4/10s, 4 days per week, 10 hours per day

Work Arrangement: Onsite

Pay Range: $72.25-$114.50 per hour, depending on experience

Per Diem: Available for eligible candidates

Travel: Business travel may be authorized

Citizenship Requirement: U.S. citizenship required

Badge Requirement: Nuclear site badging required

A regulated nuclear facility is seeking two Senior Nuclear Maintenance Managers to provide technical support, oversight, governance, and implementation readiness support for major maintenance and enterprise risk projects.

This role supports project managers and maintenance leadership by reviewing execution strategies, validating readiness, identifying project risks, improving schedule performance, and helping ensure work is executed safely, efficiently, and in alignment with nuclear standards, work management processes, and code requirements.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical review of key project documentation to improve schedule performance, quality, resource use, and execution readiness.
• Review project schedules, implementation means and methods, risk registers, work orders, quality inspection plans, test and commissioning plans, clearance orders, turnover strategies, material plans, tooling plans, resource plans, and budget assumptions.
• Identify errors, misconceptions, missing information, error traps, and weak instructions before field execution.
• Validate the quality of work order tasks before field activities in accordance with site work management processes.
• Support remediation of work order tasks that lack quality, contain incorrect references, or introduce execution risk.
• Review and improve testing and acceptance plans, including factory, shop, site, mock-up, and post-modification testing.
• Identify activities that would benefit from mock-ups and provide input to make mock-ups effective.
• Communicate relevant operating experience and develop response strategies for project execution risks.
• Serve as ASME PIC for Section XI repair and replacement plan work scope as needed.
• Maintain broad knowledge of applicable codes, standards, technologies, skilled craft work, implementation strategies, and industry trends.
• Provide timely and candid feedback to project managers, oversight managers, and department leadership.
• Provide oversight of shop or field activities as needed.
• Serve as designated person in charge of project activities on the opposite shift from the project manager when required.
• Coordinate resources and collaborate with vendor teams to identify and remove execution roadblocks.
• Attend key project strategy meetings, including design review boards, steering committees, implementation briefings, high-risk work plan challenge meetings, readiness reviews, schedule meetings, and risk management meetings.

Required Experience

• Commercial nuclear power plant experience.
• Multiple refueling outage experience at a commercial nuclear power plant.
• Experience with production and operational processes in a nuclear power plant.
• Experience with enterprise management software such as Asset Suite, SAP, or similar systems.
• Experience with logic-driven schedules generated by Primavera, Microsoft Project, or similar scheduling tools.
• Knowledge of code and regulatory requirements related to maintenance and field work activities.
• Knowledge of maintenance and engineering procedures and processes.
• Understanding of error reduction, human performance improvement, and cost-effective work execution methods.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Advanced computer skills.

Required Education and Experience

• Advanced degree in a related field or business and 10 years of electrical experience in a nuclear, steam-cycle, or regulated industrial environment; or
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or business and 12 years of electrical experience in a nuclear, steam-cycle, or regulated industrial environment; or
• Associate degree from an accredited college or university and 14 years of electrical experience in a nuclear, steam-cycle, or regulated industrial environment; or
• High school diploma/GED and 16 years of electrical experience in a nuclear, steam-cycle, or regulated industrial environment.

Benefits

Eligible CRG contract employees may have access to medical, dental, vision, weekly pay, direct deposit, referral bonus opportunities, and support from the CRG recruiting and account management team throughout the assignment after 30 days of employment. 401(k) eligibility begins after 12 months as a CRG employee. Benefit eligibility, plan details, waiting periods, and employee costs should be confirmed during onboarding.

Washington paid sick leave applies at a minimum of 1 hour of paid sick leave for every 40 hours worked.