Senior Manager, PMO (Project Management Office)

Location: Bellevue,Washington,United States

TITLE:                   Senior Manager, PMO (Project Management Office)                   

LOCATION:          Bellevue, WA      

TerraPower is a nuclear technology company based in Bellevue, Washington. At its core, the company is working to raise living standards globally through a more affordable, secure and environmentally friendly form of nuclear energy along with innovations in medical isotopes to improve human health. In 2006, TerraPower originated with Bill Gates and a group of like-minded visionaries who evaluated the fundamental challenges to raising living standards around the world. They recognized energy access was crucial to the health and economic well-being of communities and decided that the private sector needed to take action and create energy sources that would advance global energy deployment. TerraPower’s mission is to be a world leader in new nuclear technologies, while developing innovators and future leaders in the nuclear field. As a result, the company’s activities in the fields of nuclear energy and related sciences are yielding significant innovations in the safety and economics of nuclear power, hybrid energy and medical applications – all for significant human health benefits.

TerraPower is seeking to hire highly motivated and forward-thinking professionals who are interested in focusing on advanced nuclear reactor research and development and influencing change within the nuclear power landscape and bringing forward the critical production of medical isotopes.  TerraPower is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. In addition, as a federal contractor, TerraPower has instituted an Affirmative Action Plan (AAP) in an effort to proactively recruit, hire, and promote women, minorities, disabled persons and veterans.

Senior Manager, PMO

The Senior Manager, PMO for the Natrium project is responsible and accountable for the management of Team Natrium’s integrated project management systems and best practices inclusive of schedule management, cost and reporting management, earned value management, change management, estimating processes, planning processes, PM and project controls training and qualification, risk management, project communications, and data analytics. This role is responsible for leading a geographically diverse team of TerraPower project personnel as well as oversight of partner project controls and planning deliverables.  This role will report to the Natrium Project Manager.

 Responsibilities

• Drive critical thinking and insight into challenging, unstructured decisions and problems and work with leaders in the project to bring those insights into action.
• Partner with various corporate groups (Finance, HR, IT, etc.) to provide needed data and information, as well as ensuring smooth operational support from them.
• Provides guidance and support toward project strategies and processes, creates metric definition and analysis, monitoring, documentation as well as root-cause analysis, and best practices.
• Provide consistent and frequent project communications to enhance clarity on project priorities, issues, and progress.
• Inspire project management excellence within the PMO team and for the entire Natrium Demonstration project.
• Responsible and accountable for coordination and oversight of a geographically diverse PMO team. The team members include TerraPower employees, subcontractor employees, and partner planning and project controls teams.
• Provide personnel management of TerraPower PMO staff.
• Utilize EVMS principles and other project control best practices in the development and maintenance of the integrated master control P6 schedule and cost baseline.
• Accountable for administration of Oracle Primavera application, data set, users, publication, data warehousing.
• Responsible and accountable for producing and publishing the monthly project status report following procedural requirements. 
• Ensure satisfactory completion of month-end Earned Value reporting process including assessment of BCWS, BCWP, ACWP, SPI, CPI, EAC, BAC, and VAC including variance reporting for any values that exceed established thresholds.
• Accountable for the change control process through development, submittal, and completion of Project (PCNs) for those scope, budget or schedule changes which exceed established thresholds.
• Accountable for completion of periodic estimating deliverables (annually, stag