Principal Field Project Manager

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.

 

If this sounds like an environment you would thrive in, we have an exciting opportunity for a Field Project Manager within our Specialty Welding & Machining business unit. This is a remote position, based out of Manning, SC, that can be performed from anywhere within the United States.

 

 Your Day-to-Day:

• Lead and manage projects primarily during plant outages, with a focus on nuclear system components and piping repairs, including welding, machining, and related activities.
• Responsible for all project management processes on medium-complexity projects, or a portfolio of low-complexity projects. Lead and establish a healthy collaborative working environment with small to medium-sized teams, which may include cross-business unit roles such as Project Controls, Engineering and other Project Managers.
• Oversee and provide input to development of cost estimates and offers for field service projects, particularly in the nuclear power sector.  Support customer negotiations and be an advocate for Westinghouse value-added opportunities at customer sites.
• Complete all aspects of the project planning processes, including authoring project management plans, procedures, schedule, challenge meetings, cost baselines/projections and financials reporting, invoicing billing milestones, risk and stakeholder registers per the Westinghouse Enterprise Project Management Office programs and Specialty Welding & Machining Project Playbook.
• Be the driving factor at customer sites that lead our teams to safe and event-free, first-time quality project delivery during execution phases including maintaining the schedule, tracking and projecting financials, invoicing, logging all project performance details, and active stakeholder management with effective internal and external communications. Develop and implement recovery plans when projects are off-track.
• Ensure proper project closure by archiving work in financial, scheduling, document management, and resource management systems/tools. Perform final project quality assessments and report out.  Identify and communicate best practices, opportunities for improvement, lessons learned, and risk avoidance for future work.
• Use interpersonal skills to cultivate positive relationships with team members, customers, and other stakeholders (e.g., internal management) in a matrix environment to facilitate successful project completion and identify opportunities for additional business growth.
• Actively identify, assess, and implement mitigating actions for risks throughout entire project lifecycle, and look for cost-sharing opportunities with clients. 
• Occasional travel to WEC sites, seasonal travel (typically Spring & Fall) to customer sites for project execution, possibly including international travel, possible long-term assignments, may be required for this position.

 

Who You Are:

 

• Bachelor’s degree in applicable disciplines: Project Management, Engineering, Science, Construction Management, or a related technical degree or equivalent non-degreed technical experience in an industrial environment (field service, nuclear, power plant, NDE, oil/gas, construction).
• Preferred: Bachelor's degree in Project Management or Engineering.
• 3 years of project management experience or 2 years of project management/supervisory experience and 2+ years of technical field experience (e.g., field service, nuclear, power plant, Non-Destructive Examination (NDE), oil/gas, construction industry) may be considered as equivalent.
  • 5+ years of applicable Project Management experience preferred, specifically in the areas of Construction Management, Feedwa