Senior Project Manager, Americas I&C Systems

Are you interested in being part of an innovative team that supports Westinghouse’s mission to provide clean energy solutions? At Westinghouse, we recognize that our employees are our most valuable asset and we seek to identify, attract and recruit the most qualified talent while recognizing and encouraging the value of diversity in the global workplace!

 

The Senior Project Manager, Americas I&C Systems provides central expertise, support, and control for an organization's projects/programs including: developing program/project management best practices/templates and providing training/mentoring to project teams; monitoring dependencies across multiple inter-related projects; gathering and reporting consolidated project status and financial information to leadership. Responsibilities may include managing projects / processes, working independently with limited supervision. May coach and review the work of lower level professionals. Problems faced are difficult and sometimes complex.

 

Your Day to Day:

• Responsible for all project management activities on Tier 3 (moderate size and complexity) or lower projects.
• Oversee the development of cost estimates and offers for operating plants I&C upgrade projects.  Support and/or drive customer negotiations.
• Complete all aspects of planning process including authoring project management plans and developing scope, schedule, and cost baselines as well as risk and stakeholder registers per Westinghouse Project Management Requirements (WPMR).
• Based on project management plan, follow department protocols for acquiring team members as needed to complete the work.  Manage and interpret all aspects of project, including scope, schedule, cost, risk, procurement, quality, resources, communications and stakeholders.  Interpret and transmit project/contract requirements and subsequent changes to functional groups following an integrated change management process.  Coordinate project communications ensuring team, customer and all stakeholders are kept informed of status.  Develop or oversee project records in standard databases, systems and procedures to ensure efficient handling and transmission of project correspondence and documentation internally and externally.
• Properly close projects by archiving work in financial, scheduling, document management and resource management systems/tools.  Perform final project quality assessment and report out.  Identify and communicate opportunities for improvement, lessons and risk avoidance for future work.
• Use interpersonal skills to cultivate positive relationships with team, customer and other stakeholders (e.g. internal management) in a matrix environment to facilitate successful project completion as well as identify opportunities for additional business growth.
• Identify, assess and implement improvement or recovery opportunities that will promote successful project delivery.
• Use and support Westinghouse project management systems and controls for various projects assuring senior management is provided up-to-date and accurate reports of each project status.
• Analyze contract requirements and assist in developing project-specific deliverables to enable successful project implementation, to enhance customer relations and increase/maintain profit margin.
• Support financial planning through accurately forecasting spending on assigned projects.
• A successful candidate will be highly motivated, willing to take ownership of challenges and customer focused.
  • Individuals with familiarity with the commercial nuclear industry, nuclear instrumentation and controls, and business acumen are preferred.
     

Who You Are:

• Bachelor’s Degree (Engineering, Project Management, Business, or related technical field)
• 4 years of relevant project related experience
  • PMP certification preferred to achieve)
     

 

Why Westinghouse?

Westinghouse Electric Company is the global nuclear energy industry’s first choice for safe, clean, and efficient energy solutions. We enable our delivery of this vision by living our value system:

• Safety and Quality
• Integrity and Trust
• Customer Focus and Innovation
• Speed and Passion to Win
• Teamwork and Accountability

 

Westinghouse offers competitive benefits to all our employees around the globe to keep them healthy and enhance their well-being.  In the U.S., the following are representative of what we offer:

• Competitive Salary
• Comprehensive Health, Wellness and Income Protection Benefits
• 401(k) Savings Plan with Company Match
• Paid Vacations and Holidays
• Opportunities for Flexible Work Arrangements
• Educational Reimbursement Program
• Employee Referral Pr