Project Lead

Edgewater Technical Associates is seeking qualified candidates for a Project Lead opportunity in Johnson City, TN .

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead multiple concurrent engineering and design projects supporting DOE facilities, nuclear facilities, and related infrastructure.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering and design teams, including civil/structural, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and controls (I&C), piping, and other technical disciplines.
• Develop and maintain project execution plans, scopes of work, schedules, budgets, deliverables, and resource requirements.
• Establish project priorities and coordinate resources across multiple projects to meet client commitments and project milestones.
• Serve as a key interface with clients, project managers, engineering leadership, subcontractors, and other stakeholders.
• Monitor project scope, schedule, budget, technical performance, and deliverable quality and proactively address risks or emerging issues.
• Coordinate preparation, review, approval, and issuance of engineering calculations, specifications, drawings, design packages, technical reports, and other project deliverables.
• Ensure projects are performed in accordance with applicable DOE requirements, nuclear quality expectations, client procedures, codes, standards, and project-specific requirements.
• Support design control, configuration management, document control, change management, and quality assurance processes.
• Identify project risks, technical challenges, resource constraints, and schedule impacts and develop appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Manage scope changes and support development of change requests, estimates, proposals, and schedule adjustments.
• Coordinate interfaces between engineering disciplines and ensure design inputs, assumptions, requirements, and interfaces are clearly defined and documented.
• Support procurement, construction, installation, testing, commissioning, and field activities as required.
• Maintain clear project documentation and provide accurate status reporting to clients and company leadership.
• Promote a strong culture of nuclear safety, quality, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related technical discipline. Relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• 10+ years of experience supporting engineering, design, construction, or technical projects, preferably within a heavy industrial construction environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary engineering and design projects.
• Experience managing multiple projects, work packages, or task orders simultaneously.
• Strong understanding of project scope, schedule, budget, risk, change control, and resource management.
• Experience coordinating engineering deliverables and formal design review processes.
• Ability to work effectively with engineers, designers, project controls personnel, quality assurance personnel, clients, subcontractors, and field organizations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to establish priorities and manage competing project demands.

Other Job Requirements:

• United States Citizenship

If you are interested in being considered for this position and your resume clearly outlines your relevant experience for this position, please follow the application steps via our website:

Edgewater will not submit your resume without first having detailed discussions with you and obtaining your permission to do so. We look forward to hearing from you!

WORKING WITH EDGEWATER TECHNICAL ASSOCIATES

Founded in 2003, Edgewater Technical Associates, LLC (Edgewater) is a New Mexico-based small business headquartered in Los Alamos, NM, with five (5) regional offices across the United States to locally support their growing presence at project sites. Edgewater has a proven track record and is a trusted provider of fixed-price construction projects, engineering, and technical services for the Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Defense (DOD), National Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Canadian Commercial Nuclear Industry, and private sector commercial contractors involved in nuclear, high-hazard, or complex operations. Edgewater's experience and guidance ensure that its customers perform hazardous operations, comply with regulatory requirements, and maintain the highest quality and safety standards.

Edgewater is committed to recruiting and maintaining a staff of highly skilled professionals to support our customers. In keeping with this objective, we offer highly competitive salaries and employee benefit packages structured to best suit your needs. We offer multiple individual and family benefit options including paid time off, medical, dental, life, vision, and disability insurance, and a pre- and post-tax 401 (k) retirement account with Company matching contributions and 100% vesting for eligible participants beginning DAY 1.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Edgewater is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veterans, or individuals with disabilities in accordance with EO 14173.

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