Credentials that matter
Skills and tools
- Project Management
- Earned Value Management
- Cost Management
- NDE / NDT
- Nuclear Facility Operations
Required qualifications
- Project management experience in technical or engineering environments
- Strong understanding of project controls, scheduling, and cost management
- Experience with earned value management and financial forecasting
- Proficiency with project management tools and systems
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to manage competing priorities and constraints
About this role
Project Engineer supporting Westinghouse's Non Destructive Testing & Special Product Department. You will lead development projects for nuclear facility repair, maintenance, and decommissioning equipment from concept through field application, managing project controls, timelines, budgets, stakeholder communications, and cross-functional coordination with supply chain, quality, and sales teams.
Responsibilities
- Initiate and plan all aspects of development projects, applying tools and techniques to optimize performance and reduce inefficiencies
- Manage all project controls activities including scope, schedule, cost, and risk management
- Process and monitor changes following integrated change control procedures
- Prepare project cost expenditure forecasts, progress evaluations, and earned value management reports for financial and performance reporting
- Coordinate project communications to keep team, customers, and stakeholders informed of status
- Maintain project databases and systems for efficient handling and transmission of project correspondence and documentation
- Close projects by archiving work in financial, scheduling, document management, and resource management systems
- Identify and communicate improvement opportunities, lessons learned, and risk avoidance strategies
- Support development of offers including technical descriptions, cost estimates, and scheduling with senior engineer guidance
- Interface with support organizations including Supply Chain Management, Invoicing, Accounting, Sales, and Quality
- Lead full project lifecycles from proposal through implementation including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, controlling, and close-out
- Develop detailed project execution plans and schedules covering all project phases
- Balance competing project constraints including scope, quality, schedule, budget, resources, and risks
- Develop and implement recovery plans to address delayed activities and deliverables
- Maintain full accountability for project financial performance and address spending deviations immediately
- Control project scope by monitoring activities and customer requests against contracts and SOW
- Communicate identified changes immediately to customers and internal management
Preferred qualifications
- Technical PM certification or equivalent experience transitioning to technical project management
- Nuclear industry or heavy equipment manufacturing experience
- Experience in equipment development, testing, or qualification processes
- Familiarity with non-destructive testing or nuclear facility operations
- Supply chain and vendor management experience
Location, schedule, and travel
Based in Mannheim, European Service Center; 0–2 days home office per week possible; willing to travel to customer sites, suppliers, and other Westinghouse facilities
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