Project Engineering Manager - SMR
$165,000–$185,000 year
On-siteCamden, New Jersey, United States
Job Summary
Lead development of project work packages, including scope, deliverables, estimates, work breakdown structures, baseline schedules, and kickoff documentation for assigned SMR-300 project scopes. Manage engineering execution to ensure delivery within approved budgets, schedules, quality standards, and safety expectations while coordinating with engineering, procurement, construction, operations, and maintenance teams. Own interface management activities, facilitate resolution of technical issues during design and construction, and lead technical bid evaluations. Maintain project dashboards, risk registers, and change logs; manage change control processes and recover schedules as necessary. Participate in safety, design, and constructability reviews to support project readiness and client service. U.S. citizenship required; travel 10–20%.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering from an accredited institution
- Mechanical, Nuclear, Electrical, Civil, Chemical, or related engineering discipline
- Minimum 10 years of progressive engineering, project engineering, project management, or project delivery experience
- Experience within the nuclear, power generation, EPC, heavy industrial, or similar technical industries
- Demonstrated experience managing engineering work scopes from proposal and scope definition through detailed design, procurement support, construction support, and turnover
- Strong knowledge of project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, risk management, change control, work breakdown structures, and project performance reporting
- Experience coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams, planning professionals, procurement personnel, construction teams, vendors, and project stakeholders
- Experience supporting technical bid evaluations, design reviews, constructability reviews, interface resolution, and site engineering support activities
- Ability to work within structured project procedures, quality programs, and configuration management requirements
- Excellent communication, leadership, coordination, and stakeholder management skills
- U.S. citizenship
Desired Qualifications
- Professional Engineer (PE), Project Management Professional (PMP), or similar project delivery certification
- Experience supporting commercial nuclear power plants, advanced reactor programs, SMR development, major plant modifications, or large capital projects in regulated environments
- Familiarity with U.S. NRC requirements, quality assurance programs, design control processes, procurement engineering, and configuration management
- Experience using Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, or similar project scheduling and controls tools
- Experience supporting supplier oversight, fabrication readiness, field engineering, work package development, and construction readiness activities
- Experience developing project dashboards, risk registers, action trackers, change notices, work order proposals, and client-facing reports
- Experience supporting startup, commissioning, turnover, operations readiness, or asset integration activities
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