MCFR Delta Testing Project Manager - Agency Contract

TITLE: MCFR Project Manager – Agency Contract

LOCATION: Hybrid – Everett and Bellevue, WA

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TerraPower is a nuclear technology company based in Bellevue, Washington. At its core, the company is working to raise living standards globally through a more affordable, secure and environmentally friendly form of nuclear energy along with innovations in medical isotopes to improve human health. In 2006, TerraPower originated with Bill Gates and a group of like-minded visionaries who evaluated the fundamental challenges to raising living standards around the world. They recognized energy access was crucial to the health and economic well-being of communities and decided that the private sector needed to take action and create energy sources that would advance global energy deployment. TerraPower’s mission is to be a world leader in new nuclear technologies, while developing innovators and future leaders in the nuclear field. As a result, the company’s activities in the fields of nuclear energy and related sciences are yielding significant innovations in the safety and economics of nuclear power, hybrid energy and medical applications – all for significant human health benefits.

TerraPower’s Molten Chloride Fast Reactor (MCFR) program is commercializing the technology to operate a fast spectrum, chloride salt cooled molten salt reactor.

MCFR Project Manager – Agency Contract

TerraPower, LLC is seeking a Project Manager to join the MCFR Team. In this role, you will be responsible for planning, executing, and supporting MCFR Delta Program test and experimental activities. The MCFR Project manager will work with multidisciplinary engineering and experimentalist teams to deliver critical data to support MCFR milestones. This role requires a minimum of 3 days in office. 1 day must be at the TerraPower Bellevue office while the other 2 days must be at the TerraPower Everett Lab.

Responsibilities

- Support the planning execution of project work scope with relevant engineering or experimental leads

- Assist the testing and experiment project team in achieving project tasks and deliverables on budget and schedule

- Monitoring, analyzing, tracking, and reporting on project cost, schedule, and scope progress using earned value (EV) data

- Conducting administrative duties, such as setting up meetings, drafting invoices and drawing estimates

- Liaising with project stakeholders concerning project details and deliverables

- Performing other duties assigned by the Principal Project Manager in an orderly and efficient manner

- Critical path analysis for test activities in the schedule

Key Qualifications and Skills

- Minimum of 8 years’ experience working in either a technical role, a project management role, or a combination of both, where they were responsible for technical tasks alongside project management duties

- Bachelors degree in Business, Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, or equivalent

- Experience in project management of lab/test activities is preferred over project management experience with software development.

- Experience with developing project budgets and resource loaded schedules

- Clear communication, strategic thinking, and organization are key qualifications

- Ability to adapt-to and rapidly learn new software and processes

- Demonstrated affinity for understanding key objective and intent and then working with stakeholders and software tools to improve a process or system to make it more efficient.

- Bachelor’s degree in technical field

- PMP, or AACE certificate is highly preferred.

- Experience with Atlassian Confluence and JIRA preferred

- Strong technical background, including engineering management, is highly desirable.

- The successful candidate will possess a high degree of trust and integrity, communicate openly and display respect and a desire to foster teamwork.

- Experience with Microsoft Project or Primavera P6

Job Functions

Job Functions are physical actions and/or working conditions associated with the position. These functions may also constitute essential functions for the job which the employee must be able to fulfill, with or without accommodation. Information provided below is to help describe the job so that the applicant has a reasonable understanding of the job duties/expectations. An applicant's ability to perform and/or tolerate these actions and conditions will be discussed and workplace accommodations may be made on a case-by-case basis following an individualized assessment of the applicant and other considerations, including but not limited to any governing safety standards.

- Motor Abilities: Sitting and/or standing for extended periods, bending/stooping, grasping/gripping, fine motor control (hands)

- Physical exertion and/or requirements: Minimal, with ability to safely lift up to 25 pounds

- Repetitive work: Prolonged

- Special Senses: Visual and audio focused work

- Work Conditions: Stairs, typing/keyboard, standard and/or sitting working environment of >8 hrs./day

- Travel required: 0-5%

TerraPower’s technology is controlled for export by various agencies of the U.S. Government. TerraPower must evaluate applicants who are foreign nationals (other than asylees, refugees, or lawful permanent residents) in accordance with U.S. Government export control requirements. To facilitate TerraPower’s export control reviews, you will be asked as part of the application process to identify whether you are a U.S. Citizen or national, asylee, refugee, or lawful permanent resident of the United States. Government export authorization approval times vary. Based on the business needs for a particular position, TerraPower may not consider a foreign national from a country if it is impracticable to obtain timely Government export approval.