Senior Implementation Manager, Electrical

Location / Schedule / Compensation

• Location: Richland, WA
• Worksite: Onsite at a nuclear generating facility
• Schedule: 4x10
• Hours: 10.5 hours per day, 4 days per week
• Duration: 12-month contract with ability to extend to multiple years
• Pay: $72.50 to $117.00/hr, depending on experience
• Per diem: $216/day (up to $79k of non taxed income)
• Expenses: Eligible
• Openings: 1
• Citizenship: U.S. citizenship required

Position Overview

• We are hiring a Senior Implementation Manager, Electrical to support electrical enterprise risk projects at a nuclear generating facility.
• This role provides technical support, field expertise, project governance, and execution readiness support for complex electrical projects.
• The Senior Implementation Manager is considered an authority and subject matter expert in their applicable field.
• This position supports project managers by helping ensure project deliverables are executed safely, with quality, on schedule, within budget, and in the most effective manner possible.
• The role requires deep electrical project experience, strong knowledge of current code requirements, best practices, field execution, project risk reduction, and outage execution strategies.
• This position is highly focused on improving project execution, reducing project cost, improving schedules, and reducing or eliminating risks that could impact outage duration or project success.

What You Will Do

• Provide technical support services for electrical enterprise risk projects
• Provide direct oversight and governance support when needed
• Support project managers with execution planning and project readiness
• Review and challenge project execution strategies to improve quality, safety, schedule, cost, and risk outcomes
• Validate project readiness for successful execution
• Identify opportunities to improve project schedules
• Identify opportunities to reduce project costs
• Identify opportunities to reduce or eliminate project risks
• Support electrical projects that may impact refueling outage critical path activities
• Help reduce outage duration and prevent execution risks from affecting outage timelines
• Provide subject matter expertise based on field experience, best practices, and code requirements
• Support business case development for strategic initiatives, projects, and investments
• Lead the creation and evaluation of business cases
• Develop financial models and forecasts to support business cases
• Perform cost-benefit analysis, ROI calculations, and risk assessments
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyze business requirements
• Identify project impacts and propose practical solutions
• Conduct market research and competitive analysis to support strategic planning
• Analyze business processes and operational metrics
• Identify opportunities for improvement and efficiency
• Provide data-driven recommendations to support decision-making
• Communicate findings and recommendations to senior leadership and key stakeholders
• Facilitate workshops and meetings to gather input, present analysis, and obtain buy-in
• Manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Oversee implementation of approved business cases
• Monitor and report progress on initiatives
• Identify and address issues, risks, and deviations from the business case
• Support development of key risk indicators and performance indicators
• Support business case performance reporting and trending
• Perform analytics, benchmarking, and research as assigned
• Contribute to business case templates, tools, processes, and continuous improvement efforts

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management, business, or related field from an accredited college or university and 20 years of experience in a technical field

OR

• Associate’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management, business, or related field from an accredited college or university and 22 years of experience in a technical field

OR

• High school diploma or GED and 24 years of experience in a technical field
• Advanced degree in a related field of study or business may be accepted in lieu of 2 years of experience
• RO/SRO License or CGS Management Certification is required
• Project Management certification is required

Required Experience

• Commercial nuclear power plant experience
• Electrical project experience
• Technical field experience supporting complex projects
• Experience supporting enterprise risk projects
• Experience managing complex projects
• Experience supporting online work management
• Experience supporting refueling outage activities
• Experience supporting forced outage activities
• Experience with advanced project management techniques at commercial nuclear power plants or similar facilities
• Experience with error reduction methods
• Experience with human performance improvement methods
• Experience with cost-effective work execution methodologies
• Experience challenging project execution strategies
• Experience validating project readiness
• Experience improving project schedules, reducing cost, or reducing project risk
• Experience communicating with senior leadership and key stakeholders

Required Technical Skills

• Electrical project implementation
• Project execution readiness
• Project governance support
• Project risk reduction
• Outage execution support
• Refueling outage support
• Forced outage support
• Online work management
• Business case development
• Financial modeling
• Forecasting
• Cost-benefit analysis
• ROI analysis
• Risk assessment
• Strategic analysis
• Market research
• Competitive analysis
• Operational metrics analysis
• Stakeholder engagement
• Project oversight
• Performance reporting
• Trend analysis
• Benchmarking
• Key risk indicator development
• Key performance indicator development
• Continuous improvement methods
• Current code requirements
• Best practices for electrical project execution

Skills and Competencies

• Expert-level technical judgment
• Strong electrical field expertise
• Strong project execution knowledge
• Strong understanding of nuclear safety and quality expectations
• Strong understanding of human performance principles
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong business case development skills
• Strong financial analysis skills
• Strong risk identification and risk mitigation skills
• Strong communication skills
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Ability to challenge execution strategies constructively
• Ability to influence project outcomes
• Ability to present recommendations to senior leadership
• Ability to facilitate workshops and stakeholder meetings
• Ability to identify schedule, cost, quality, and risk improvement opportunities
• Ability to work in a structured, compliance-driven environment
• Ability to support high-impact outage and enterprise risk project work

Work Environment

• Onsite role in Richland, WA
• Full-time contract position
• 4 days per week
• 10.5 hours per day
• Nuclear generating facility environment
• Structured, safety-focused, quality-focused, and compliance-driven project setting
• Cross-functional collaboration with:
• Project Managers
• Electrical project teams
• Enterprise risk project teams
• Construction and project management teams
• Engineering teams
• Outage teams
• Senior leadership
• Internal stakeholders
• External stakeholders
• Vendors

Benefits

• Eligible to apply for benefits after 30 days
• Benefits include:
• Health care
• Dental
• Vision
• Life insurance
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• 401k eligibility begins after 1 year

Paid Sick Leave

• Washington state provides paid sick leave, which can be used similarly to PTO
• Employees accrue a minimum of 1 hour of paid sick leave for every 40 hours worked
• Based on a 4x10.5 schedule, employees work approximately 42 hours per week
• This equals approximately 54.6 hours of paid sick leave per year
• Based on 10.5-hour workdays, this equals approximately 5.2 paid sick days per year
• Carryover is allowed per Washington state guidelines