Senior Manager, Media & Public Relations

At BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT), we are People Strong, Innovation Driven. A U.S.-based company, BWXT is a Fortune 1000 and Defense News Top 100 manufacturing and engineering innovator that provides safe and effective nuclear solutions for global security, clean energy, environmental restoration, nuclear medicine and space exploration. With more than 7,800 employees, BWXT has 14 major operating sites in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. We are the sole manufacturer of naval nuclear reactors for U.S. submarines and aircraft carriers. Our company supplies precision manufactured components, services and fuel for the commercial nuclear power industry across four continents. Our joint ventures provide environmental restoration and operations management at a dozen U.S. Department of Energy and NASA facilities. BWXT’s technology is driving advances in medical radioisotope production in North America and microreactors for various defense and space applications. For more information, visit www.bwxt.com. Follow us on LinkedIn, X, Facebook and Instagram.

 

 

Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for storytelling? Do you have a talent for building impactful relationships with the media? Join us as a Senior Manager, Media & Public Relations and lead our efforts to shape and share our brand narrative on a global scale.

 

At BWXT, The Senior Manager, Media & Public Relations will be responsible for managing and executing strategies to promote and protect the company’s reputation. This role involves developing and maintaining relationships with media outlets, coordinating public relations activities, and ensuring consistent messaging across all communication channels.

 

This position has an enterprise-wide scope of responsibility and influence with stakeholders across multiple locations and organizational levels domestically and internationally. This position will lead a small team of one Social Media Specialist.

 

Duties / Responsibilities:

1. Media Relations 

• Develop and/or coordinate news releases enterprise wide.
• Coordinate reactive media responses across the company.
• Pitch targeted media on relevant stories that would include BWXT’s work as a primary or sole focus. 
• Complete corporate reviews and approvals for all news releases and responses to query. 
• Coordinate media interviews of BWXT staff and prepare interviewees as necessary. 
• Post releases to Business Wire and administer contract. 
• Maintain and grow media relationships, including maintaining updated media outreach list. 
• Manage media events such as tours and press conferences. 
• Draft and/or submit by-lined articles to publications. 
• Draft and/or submit OpEds / thought leadership pieces for company leadership. 
• Maintain and administer media training materials to selected staff. 
• Maintain annual, high-level tracking of media relations activity. 
• Provide executives or designated spokespeople with media training. 

 

1. Strategic Communications 

• Initiate and maintain proactive engagement with Corporate Affairs leadership team in support of strategic positioning of bu