Program Manager, Special Projects

Program Manager, Special Projects

Serving as the primary integrator, the role coordinates technical, operational, financial, contractual, quality, supply chain, and schedule activities to meet program commitments. The manager develops execution strategy, translates customer and contractual requirements into actionable plans, and ensures risks, issues, and opportunities are identified and resolved early. Operating at both strategic and tactical levels, the role balances technical understanding with business objectives, cost, schedule, and risk. The manager maintains strong stakeholder interfaces and provides disciplined, timely, decision-focused assessments to senior leadership.

Location: On-site in Jonesborough, Tennessee

Your Day to Day as a Program Manager, HPDU:

• Leads overall HPDU program planning, integration, execution, monitoring, and delivery.
• Establishes program objectives, priorities, execution strategy, and performance expectations aligned with contractual and business requirements.
• Maintains accountability for cost, schedule, technical performance, quality, compliance, customer commitments, and risk.
• Integrates engineering, manufacturing, operations, supply chain, quality, finance, contracts, and project controls into a unified execution framework.
• Identifies and resolves cross-functional constraints, competing priorities, technical challenges, and execution risks.
• Develops and maintains the integrated program plan and master schedule, ensuring realistic sequencing, dependencies, milestones, and critical-path management.
• Leads recovery strategies when performance deviates from plan, evaluating downstream impacts across the program lifecycle.
• Manages program financial performance through budgets, forecasts, cost monitoring, earned value principles, and timely communication of material changes.
• Ensures engineering decisions, configuration changes, technical risks, and readiness reviews are aligned with program objectives and downstream impacts.
• Synchronizes operational and manufacturing readiness, removing production constraints and supporting recovery when needed.
• Oversees supplier performance, critical procurements, long-lead items, and supplier risk mitigation strategies.
• Ensures quality requirements, inspection, testing, documentation, and nonconformance management are fully integrated and compliant.
• Owns program risk and opportunity management, ensuring risks are characterized, mitigated, reviewed, escalated, and incorporated into plans.
• Serves as primary customer interface, managing relationships, communications, commitments, challenges, and recovery strategies.
• Administers contractual scope, change proposals, modifications, and ensures alignment of changes across baselines and documentation.
• Ensures disciplined change and configuration management, preventing uncontrolled changes and maintaining decision records.
• Leads the program team, establishing expectations, coaching talent, enabling escalation of concerns, promoting collaboration, and modeling BWXT values.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Program/Project Management, Operations, or a related discipline from an accredited institution.
• Significant progressive experience managing complex technical, engineering, manufacturing, or government programs.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization.
• Strong knowledge of program and project management principles, including scope, schedule, cost, risk, change, and stakeholder management.
• Experience developing and managing integrated schedules and major program milestones.
• Experience with program financial management, budgeting, forecasting, and cost performance.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical, organizational, negotiation, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities in a complex, highly regulated environment.
• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy (D.O.E.) security clearance.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and benefits package, including health, dental, and retirement plans.
• Flexible work schedules and paid time off to promote a healthy work-life balance.
• Professional development opportunities, including mentorship programs and sponsorship for continuing education.
• An inclusive atmosphere that celebrates new perspectives and supports collaboration between different generations.
• The chance to be part of a mission-driven organization making a positive impact on the future of energy.
• Opportunities for continuous learning and training to grow throughout your career!

Pay: $131,480 - $207,000