Senior Project Manager

Mission Support and Test Services, LLC (MSTS) manages and operates the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) for the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).  Our MISSION is to help ensure the security of the United States and its allies by providing high-hazard experimentation and incident response capabilities through operations, engineering, education, field, and integration services and by acting as environmental stewards to the Site’s Cold War legacy.  Our VISION is to be the user site of choice for large-scale, high-hazard, national security experimentation, with premier facilities and capabilities below ground, on the ground, and in the air. (See NNSS.gov for our unique capabilities.) Our 2,750+ professional, craft, and support employees are called upon to innovate, collaborate, and deliver on some of the more difficult nuclear security challenges facing the world today.   

• MSTS offers our full-time employees highly competitive salaries and benefits packages including medical, dental, and vision; both a pension and a 401k; paid time off and 96 hours of paid holidays; relocation (if located more than 75 miles from work location); tuition assistance and reimbursement; and more.  
• MSTS is a limited liability company consisting of Honeywell International Inc. (Honeywell), Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Jacobs), and HII Nuclear Inc.

The Senior Project Manager reports to the Facility Managers division within the Maintenance and Critical Site Infrastructure Directorate and provides project management support across various projects and programs.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage small projects (<$5M TPC). Create strategic plans and manage projects and corrective actions related to NFPA, NEC, IBC, IFC and facility- related issues. Responsible for management of projects over the entire lifecycle (initiation, planning, executing, monitoring & controlling, and closing).
• Provide Project Management of Indirect and Direct Operations, Design Engineering, Conduct of Engineering, Maintenance, and Construction activities related to corrective actions and plans for legacy facility issues related and non-compliances. 
• Perform weekly, monthly, and quarterly and annual project reviews and status reporting.
• Integrate with partner and interfacing directorates/programs/projects to ensure collaborative and comprehensive approach to issues management and project execution.
• Support development and implementation of long-term strategic plans that are integrated with mission requirements in support of future execution.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Infrastructure Programs Project and Program Managers, Facility/Asset Management, Building Authority, Industrial Hygiene organization personnel, and other key stakeholders, for the definition, prioritization, and planning of future Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) facility investment projects.
• Develop and implement strategies to identify, manage and mitigate risk.
• Host project meetings with team members and key personnel.
• Develop project plans that identify resource and budgetary needs.
• Provide feedback, advice, project updates and encouragement to team members.
• Manage deadlines and push the team to ensure timeliness.
• Coordinate with vendors, subcontractors, and suppliers as necessary.
• Establish and maintain corrective action, risk management and other files, relevant records and documents, ensuring disposition of corrective actions and updating engineering records.

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent training and experience and at least 5 years’ related professional experience.
• Previous project management experience and responsibilities should include:
  • Managing small projects (<$5M TPC) and project teams (<10 people) through representative project lifecycle phases.
  • Maintaining satisfaction of stakeholders with differing needs and expectations.
  • Identifying and complying with project requirements in development of products and deliverables supporting the project team in successfully achieving project scope, schedule, and cost objectives.
  • Defining, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and successfully completing discrete elements of scope in compliance with defined schedule, costs, risk, and quality constraints. 
  • Proficiency in sound engineering practices, in respect to the design and construction of structures, building code compliance, the basic principles of emergency power systems.
  • Design, Application of Generator sets, Transfer Switches.
  • DC Engineering Fundamentals.
  • DC Power Systems. 
  • Data Center (IT) backup power systems.
  • Technical ability in NEC code compliance.
  • Practical application of Quality Assurance functions.
  • Proven abilities in Su