Associate Project Manager

• Assists the Project Manager in developing or updating project plans and communicating them to assigned staff, contractors and suppliers.
• Ensuring assigned areas are adequately resourced with trained and qualified personnel and taking prompt action with the Project Manager to address identified weaknesses and gaps.
• Supervises and directs assigned staff and contractors and holds them accountable for meeting project requirements and goals.
• Oversees performance in assigned areas, identifies problems and barriers and takes or engages the Project Manager in their prompt mitigation or elimination.
• Communicates and works with project team and PPPL stakeholders and peers to ensure that interfaces are effectively managed.
• Works transparently with the Project Manager and NSTX-U team - notifies the Project
• Manager promptly of conditions, events or emergent issues that may compromise safe and successful project completion.
• Serves as the Cost Account Manager for assigned scope, including:
• Verifying work progress
• Reporting progress monthly to project team
• Reviewing, analyzing and addressing project variances
• Reviewing Estimate to Complete/Estimate at Completion (EAC/ETC) and developing new estimates, as required
• Initiating timely change requests, as required
• Ensuring job charges recorded against the NSTX-U budget are accurate and reasonable.

• Bachelor degree in science or engineering.
• Fifteen years of experience in managing complex projects at Department of Energy laboratories or commercial nuclear power plants.
• Project Management certification and/or PMP (preferred).
• DOE O 413.3B experience (preferred).
• Effective leadership skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Confidence and demonstrated ability to manage across a broad range of work activities and technical disciplines involving a diverse spectrum of professional and non-professional personnel.
• Experience in leading unique, one-of-a-kind projects and applying Earned Value Management system(s) and principles.
• Strong analytical skills and demonstrated experience in making timely, risk informed decisions.
• Demonstrated teaming skills, including the ability to work effectively with peers, other organizations, project sponsors and stakeholders and suppliers.

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