Project Manager, Subcontractor Oversight

Location: Wilmington,North Carolina,United States

TITLE:                 Project Manager, Subcontractor Oversight (Natrium)

LOCATION:        Wilmington, NC, USA

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.

Project Manager, Subcontractor Oversight (Natrium)

The Project Manager for Subcontractor Oversight will have primary responsibility for coordinating the integration of a specific subcontractor scope into the Natrium Project.  The position will report directly to the Deputy Project Director having overall project management responsibility of the Natrium Demonstration Project and will have significant interface with other high level Natrium Managers and executive leadership. 

Responsibilities

• Act as primary interface and manage the relationship with the assigned subcontractor.

• Ensure that the subcontractor scope and performance is fully aligned with the project needs, and that the subcontractor is complying with project process requirements.

• Develop Scopes of Work and Procurement Requisitions. 

• Work with project teams to ensure that the subcontractor activities are captured into the Natrium integrated project schedule, and subcontractor deliverables are provided on time and of sufficient quality.

• Ensure subcontractor is working consistent with the allocated cost and within schedule.  Monitor and analyze cost and schedule performance/variances against the schedule baseline using earned value data recorded and actual costs compared to the time-phased budget.  Provide oversight management to address any areas of underperformance. 

• Coordinate with other Subcontractor Oversight PMs to achieve process efficiencies and collaboration.

• Identify issues associated with subcontractor work that may have an adverse impact on the success of the project, and drive remedies to those issues.

• Ensure subcontractor meets the key milestones established in the integrated schedule.

• Ensure subcontractor records and related correspondence is stored in the Electronic Document Management System (EDMS).

• Act as intermediary between subcontractor and TerraPower when conflict or differences of opinion arise.

• Work with engineering management and project management to ensure that there is not duplication between scope of subcontractor and prime.

• Minimize unjustified subcontractor scope growth.

• Work collaboratively with the engineering departments and key leads across the project, Contracts and Procurement, Finance, as well as other internal partners to meet project goals.

• Review subcontractor work for project acceptance and ensure that the engineering departments perform design reviews of the subcontractor work.

• Work closely with Quality Assurance to ensure that the subcontractor is working in accordance with Quality requi