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Position: Project Controls Engineer

Location: Camden, NJ; KPS Technology Center

Holtec International seeks applicants for its Project Management department, based at the company’s KPS Technology Campus in Camden, NJ. This department is the company’s management nerve center, working with every aspect of Holtec International to ensure success of the company’s largest projects. The specific position for which candidates are solicited herein is that of a Project Controls Engineer II, which calls for a dynamic professional with a passion for organizational improvement. Holtec International and its subsidiary SMR LLC are developing the SMR-300, an unfailingly safe and secure next-generation small modular reactor. The candidate’s principal activities will consist of establishing and executing the enterprise project controls, scheduling, and work management framework for the full SMR program lifecycle. The Project Controls Engineer ensures schedule integrity, disciplined work execution, and compliance with DOE-level Earned Value Management (EVM) rigor, enabling accurate performance tracking and informed decision making across this highly complex nuclear program.

Essential Job Functions:

• Develop, maintain, and control the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) for the SMR program across all phases of the SMR lifecycle, from design through plant startup, and across multiple cross-functional departments. This includes:
• Ensure accurate predecessor/successor logic and sequencing between interdependent activities performed by different organizations.
• Coordinate between engineering, licensing, procurement, manufacturing, and construction to align schedules with technical maturity, regulatory milestones, and constructability constraints.
• Adjust schedules based on actual progress, approved scope changes, or execution challenges, ensuring impacts to milestones and critical paths are clearly identified and communicated.

• Track schedule progress and analyze variances against baseline plans to identify and manage schedule-driven risks and constraints.

• Establish and enforce disciplined scheduling standards, including work breakdown structures (WBS), coding structures, calendars, logic development, and baseline control, to maintain realistic, executable plans that reflect actual field and engineering progress.

• Integrate cost- and resource-loaded schedules structured to support schedule-driven DOE-compliant EVM reporting, including:

• Evaluate planned and earned value.
• Assess schedule variance, and performance trends.

• Forecast and prepare cost impact assessments, including support to Estimate at Complete (EAC).

• Perform schedule risk and critical path analysis, schedule forecasting, and scenario (“what-if”) analysis to address technical, regulatory, cost, and schedule risks. This includes:

• Identify schedule risks, constraints, and conflicts.
• Perform Milestone confidence and sensitivity assessments.
• Incorporate approved risk mitigation actions into the IMS and forecast.

• Communicate schedule risk exposure and confidence levels.

• Coordinate with Project Management and Finance to align control accounts, work packages, budgets, schedule activities, and audit reviews.

• Prepare and present schedule status reports, dashboards, and briefings for internal leadership and external stakeholders as required.

Minimum Skills and Qualifications:

• B.S. in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or related technical discipline.
• PMP, PMI-SP, or equivalent project management or project controls certification.
• 5+ years of experience in project controls, planning, scheduling, or work management on large, complex engineering or capital projects.
• Proficiency in Primavera P6 for development and maintenance of integrated, logic-driven schedules.
• Strong time management, problem solving, and organizational skills with proven ability to manage conflicting priorities.
• Must be eligible to work under DOE 10CFR Part 810.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience developing schedules spanning design, regulatory/licensing, procurement, fabrication, and construction phases.
• Experience supporting Earned Value Management (EVM) through schedule development, integration, and performance analysis.
• Experience supporting nuclear, energy, or other highly regulated DOE or government programs.
• Familiarity with U.S. NRC licensing processes and regulatory milestone scheduling.

Salary range: $110,000 – $130,000

Holtec International offers a competitive benefits package to eligible associates, which includes:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
• Paid time off and 11 Paid Holidays.
• Company-paid life and AD&D insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Wellness resources and voluntary benefits.

As a technology trailblazer and a prominent innovator in clean energy (nuclear and solar) industry, Holtec strives to foster a meritocratic work environment conducive to continuous learning and professional growth of its associates. Holtec is an equal opportunity employer with a long-standing commitment to social equity and environmental justice. The company gives special preference to disabled veterans as a part of its recruitment policy.