PMO Manager - MOX Fuel Fabrication Project
About this role
Position Summary
The PMO Manager will establish and lead the Project Management Office for a large-scale nuclear fuel fabrication project. This role will provide governance, planning, reporting, risk management, and performance control across licensing, engineering, manufacturing, construction, and commissioning activities. The PMO Manager will ensure strong coordination between U.S.-based teams and international stakeholders, maintaining alignment on schedule, cost, quality, safety, and regulatory commitments.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and implement PMO processes, governance, reporting standards, and project controls.
- Develop integrated schedules, cost tracking, progress reporting, and milestone control.
- Monitor project risks, issues, dependencies, and change control actions.
- Prepare executive-level dashboards, status reports, and decision-support materials.
- Coordinate interfaces between design, manufacturing, construction, procurement, QA/QC, licensing, and commissioning.
- Support stakeholder management across internal teams, contractors, regulators, and international partners.
- Promote a strong nuclear safety, quality, and compliance culture.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, project management, construction management, or related field.
- 10+ years of project management or project controls experience on major nuclear, industrial, or infrastructure projects.
- Demonstrated experience on large-capital projects in the nuclear industry; fuel-cycle experience strongly preferred.
- Strong command of schedule, cost, risk, and performance management tools.
- Proven ability to work in multicultural and international project environments.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and governance skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with nuclear fuel fabrication, MOX, enrichment, reprocessing, or regulated fuel-cycle facilities.
- Experience with DOE, NRC, or other nuclear regulatory frameworks.
- Familiarity with EPC/EPCM project delivery models.
What We Offer
• Comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents, as well as a 401(k) plan with 4% company match.
• Generous paid time off, starting at 20 days per year and increasing to 25 days after 3 years of service.
• A mission-driven environment focused on delivering scalable, low-carbon energy solutions to meet growing global energy demand.
• A collaborative and international culture that values technical excellence, transparency, innovation, and cross-functional teamwork.
Company at a glance
Since launching in 2021 newcleo has quickly established itself as innovator in the field of nuclear energy. newcleo is working to design, build, and operate Gen-IV Advanced Modular Reactors (AMRs) that are cooled by liquid lead and fuelled by reprocessed nuclear waste.
Through an innovative combination of existing and proven technologies, and by reviving a nuclear industry model based on the manufacture and multi-recycling of Mixed Oxide fuel, newcleo aims to close the nuclear fuel cycle while safely producing clean, affordable, and practically inexhaustible energy required for low carbon economies.
With a EUR 70m group turnover in 2024, EUR 645m of private funding and over 100 partnerships and collaborations across the nuclear industry, the growth of the newcleo group is supported through the targeted acquisition of key companies with strong capabilities in nuclear engineering, manufacturing, and waste management.
Through its workforce of over 900 highly qualified employees across France, the U.S., the UK, Italy, Switzerland and Slovakia, newcleo is not only developing and delivering the skills and services required for the group’s own ambitious project timelines, but also supporting the development of Small Modular Reactor supply chains in Europe and beyond.
Top Benefits
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- 401(k) Plan
- 4% Company Match
- Paid Time Off
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