Sr. 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 Senior Project Manager, located in Cranberry Township, PA, US. This is a hybrid position with up to 3 days a working onsite.

Your Day-to-Day:

• Project planning
  • Complete all aspects of planning process including authoring project plans and developing scope, schedule, and cost baselines.
• Project executing, monitoring and controlling
  • Assume overall responsibility for profitability of contracts. Based on project plan, follow department protocols for acquiring team members to complete the work. Manage all aspects of project including scope, schedule, cost, risk, procurement, quality, resources, communications, and stakeholders through use of delegates/support as applicable. Interpret and transmit project/contract requirements, and subsequent changes, to functional groups following an integrated change management process. Prepare or oversee project cost expenditure forecasts and progress evaluations/projections (including Earned Value Management) to support project performance and financial reporting requirements. Review project expenditures for compliance with project baselines and scope. Promote teamwork and effective communication, including issuing and maintenance of project process metrics and process maps to ensure team, customer, and all stakeholders are kept informed of project status.
• Project closing
  • Properly close project 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.
• Develop positive relationships with cross functional/product line team, customer, suppliers, and other stakeholders to drive project to successful completion.
• Seek opportunities and implement continuous improvements to enhance project performance.
  • Identify, assess, and implement improvement opportunities which will add value.

Who You Are:
As a successful candidate, you will bring the following to the team:

• Bachelor’s degree. Applicable disciplines are Project Management, Engineering, Business, Construction Management, or related technical discipline.
• 2 years of Westinghouse, industry, or prior experience or 4 year university degree in Project Management.
  • Preferred: 5+ years of Westinghouse experience coordinating or leading small scale scopes or projects.
• Knowledge of Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge.
• Advanced interpersonal skills such as effective verbal and written communications, ability to lead and direct complex team structures, able to develop relationships with stakeholders in upper management positions, able to analyze problems, establish facts, and make complex decisions.
• Certifications (Preferred):
  • Westinghouse Project Manager qualification completed.
  • PMI Project Management Professional (PMP)

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 Program

While our Global Headquarters are located in Cranberry Township, PA, we have over 9,000 employees working at locations in 19 different countries. You can learn more by visiting http://www.westinghousenuclear.com.

EOE of Minorities / Females / Vets / Disability.

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