
Advanced Project Manager
Cranberry Township, NC · HybridJob$103–129K/yrPosted 6 days agoStill listed today
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Job overview
The Principal Project Manager will lead high-complexity projects with substantial financial, technical, and customer commitments across multidisciplinary teams. The role covers fuel engineering software, AI and innovation, methods, capital, and process improvement initiatives, from initiation through closeout. It reports to the Operations Manager of Nuclear Fuel Engineering Operations and follows a hybrid arrangement with regular on-site collaboration 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 Principal Project Manager you will manage high-complexity projects with substantial financial, technical, and customer commitments. Direct multidisciplinary teams across departments and locations, including project managers and workstream leads, on fuel engineering software, Artificial Intelligence & Innovation, methods, capital, and process improvement initiatives.
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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Own execution from initiation through closeout for large, complex projects with multiple workstreams; establish accountability for safety, quality, technical, customer, contractual, schedule, financial, and goals.
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Apply agile, predictive, or hybrid delivery methods while ensuring regulatory, quality, and configuration requirements are met.
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Direct integrated planning across workstreams for scope, deliverables, work breakdown structure, schedule, cost and revenue, resources, quality, procurement, communications, stakeholders, assumptions, dependencies, and risks.
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Own 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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Ensure reliable, consistent project and portfolio data across approved enterprise tools—including Project Server/PWA, SAP, Active Risk Manager, Azure DevOps, Jira, SharePoint, Teams, and Power BI—to support integrated controls, traceability, and executive decisions.
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Lead project reviews; present credible forecasts, risks, issues, options, and recommendations.
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Own financial performance for substantial project budgets and revenue commitments; challenge estimates, baselines, expenditure plans, accrual inputs, and estimates to complete.
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Lead change control and integrated risk and opportunity management across workstreams. Evaluate technical, commercial, regulatory, resource, and cross-project impacts; establish mitigation and contingency strategies and negotiate changes within delegated authority.
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Direct acceptance, transition, financial reconciliation, records retention, and resource release at closeout. Assess delivery against intended results and apply lessons learned across projects to improve predictability, quality, efficiency, and risk avoidance. Capture lessons learned to lead improvements
Qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Project Management, Business, or a related technical discipline.
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8+ years leading medium- to high-complexity projects; at least 5 years in project management plus 3 years in relevant technical leadership may be considered.
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Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification.
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Experience with complex commercial interfaces, executive decision support, and project management mentoring; ability to integrate Finance, Legal, Quality, Supply Chain, Product Management, Engineering, and Information Technology requirements.
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Experience working in nuclear power, nuclear fuel engineering, or a comparable highly regulated technical environment, with demonstrated ability to work within rigorous engineering, quality, and governance requirements.
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Advanced Project Server/PWA expertise in integrated multi-workstream schedules, resource capacity, baselines, and portfolio reporting; experience directing schedule assurance, critical path analysis, earned value, forecasting, and complex recovery planning.
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Experience integrating Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar agile tools with enterprise project controls for multi-release software delivery; familiarity with SAP, Active Risk Manager, Primavera P6, Power BI, SharePoint, Teams, or equivalent tools. Advanced Project Manager | Updated project management content
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 $103,200 to $129,000 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
Get connected with Westinghouse on social media: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn| YouTube
How this job compares
Set against the 22,242 open Project Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$103–129K/yr
- North Carolina median$105–184K/yr363 salary ranges
- US median$108–174K/yr14,195 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $116K, is 20% 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 8 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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