
Senior Project Manager
Cranberry Township, NC · HybridJob$85–107K/yrPosted 6 days agoStill listed today
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The Senior Project Manager leads low- to medium-complexity projects, work packages within complex projects, or selected deputy project manager assignments. The role applies predictive, agile, or hybrid delivery methods and maintains project controls and compliance with Westinghouse and Nuclear Fuel Engineering requirements. It leads teams typically up to 10 members on fuel engineering software, AI and innovation, methods, capital, and process improvement projects, in a hybrid arrangement based in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania.
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Full job description
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.
About the role:
As a Senior Project Manager you will lead low- to medium-complexity projects, work packages within complex projects, or selected deputy project manager assignments. Apply predictive, agile, or hybrid delivery while maintaining project controls and compliance with Westinghouse and Nuclear Fuel Engineering requirements. Lead teams, typically up to 10 members, on fuel engineering software, Artificial Intelligence & Innovation, methods, capital, and process improvement projects.
You will report to the Operations Manager of Nuclear Fuel Engineering Operations and be located at Cranberry Township, PA. The position offers a hybrid work arrangement, blending remote flexibility with regular on-site collaboration at our office
Key Responsibilities:
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Manage initiation through closeout to meet safety, quality, technical, customer, contractual, schedule, and financial objectives within Westinghouse program requirements.
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Apply agile, predictive, or hybrid delivery methods while ensuring regulatory, quality, and configuration requirements are met.
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Maintain integrated plans for scope, deliverables, work breakdown structure, schedule, cost and revenue, resources, quality, procurement, communications, partners, assumptions, dependencies, and risks.
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Maintain logic-driven, resource-loaded schedules in Microsoft Project Server / Project Web App (PWA), including milestones, dependencies, constraints, critical path, baselines, status dates, progress, and forecasts.
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Lead project reviews; communicate progress, forecasts, variances, risks, issues, decisions, changes, and recovery actions. Maintain action and decision logs, meeting records, correspondence, and controlled documentation.
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Manage baselines, cost and revenue forecasts, expenditure plans, accrual inputs, estimates to complete/at completion, variance and trend analysis, earned value, and corrective actions.
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Administer change control for scope, schedule, cost, resources, technical requirements, and commitments. Assess, quantify, assign, monitor, and retire risks and opportunities; escalate threats, common-cause concerns, and management decisions.
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Partner with functional managers to secure qualified resources and resolve capacity conflicts.
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Confirm acceptance, reconcile records, archive information, and release resources at closeout. Share lessons learned to drive improvements in future projects.
Qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Project Management, Business, or a related technical discipline.
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Minimum 5 years leading low- to medium-complexity projects; at least 3 years in project management plus 2 years in relevant technical leadership may be considered. Typically, 6–10 years of progressive technical-industry experience.
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Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification or willingness to attain certification within specified timeframe.
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Project Server/PWA experience with enterprise schedules, resource assignments, baselines, status updates, and portfolio reporting; knowledge of schedule quality, critical path, earned value, forecasting, and recovery planning.
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Nuclear industry experience, ideally within nuclear fuel engineering; experience in other highly regulated industries will also be considered.
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Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar agile tools for backlog, work item, release, defect, and delivery tracking; familiarity with SAP, Active Risk Manager, Primavera P6, Power BI, SharePoint, Teams, or equivalent tools.
We are committed to transparency and equity in all of our people practices. The base salary range for this position, which is dependent upon experience, qualifications and skills, is estimated to be $85,200 to $106,500 per year.
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Why Westinghouse?
Our benefits package is tailored to meet the diverse needs of our employees, while also promoting wellness and career growth. The following are representative of what we offer:
• Comprehensive Medical benefits which could include medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage and Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contributions options
• Wellness Programs designed to support employees in maintaining their health and well-being including Employee Assistance Program providing support for our employees and their household members
• 401(k) with Company Match Contributions to support employees' retirement
• Paid Vacations and Company Holidays
• Opportunities for Flexible Work Arrangements to promote work-life balance
• Educational Reimbursement and Comprehensive Career Programs to help employees grow in their careers
• Global Recognition and Service Programs to celebrate employee accomplishments and service
• Employee Referral Program
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
While our Global Headquarters are located in Cranberry Township, PA, we have over 11,000 employees working at locations in 19 different countries. You can learn more by visiting http://www.westinghousenuclear.com.
Westinghouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities
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How this job compares
Set against the 22,242 open Project Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$85–107K/yr
- North Carolina median$105–184K/yr363 salary ranges
- US median$108–174K/yr14,195 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $96K, is 34% below the North Carolina median midpoint ($145K) — in the lowest quarter of Project Manager salary ranges in North Carolina.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 661 open Project Manager jobs in North Carolina and 22,242 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in North Carolina
- CDM Smith78 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Project Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years at the median (19,079 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 11,452 of the 22,242 open Project Manager jobs (51%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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