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Commercial Project Manager

Oak Ridge, TNOnsite3+ YOE
Summary

Manages customer-facing commercial projects from proposal through execution in a nuclear manufacturing environment. Coordinates across technical teams, maintains schedules, manages customer relationships, and supports proposal development.

About the role

Project Planning & Execution

  • Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, and deliverables for customer-facing commercial projects
  • Coordinate project activities across engineering, operations, manufacturing, quality, licensing, and other technical teams
  • Track project progress against schedule, scope, and budget expectations
  • Identify risks, delays, resource constraints, and execution issues early and communicate impacts to leadership and stakeholders
  • Maintain organized project records, action item trackers, schedules, and closeout documentation

Customer Communication & Relationship Management

  • Serve as a primary point of contact for assigned customers during project execution
  • Coordinate regular customer updates, project reviews, and technical status meetings
  • Communicate project progress, risks, schedule changes, and deliverable status clearly and professionally
  • Ensure customer expectations are understood, documented, and aligned with internal execution capabilities
  • Help maintain strong customer relationships through disciplined communication and follow-through

Technical Team Coordination

  • Work closely with technical leads to define work scopes, deliverables, assumptions, and execution plans
  • Translate customer needs and project requirements into actionable tasks for internal teams
  • Coordinate technical inputs required for project execution, reporting, and customer communication
  • Support alignment between technical work, project schedules, and commercial commitments
  • Track decisions, action items, open issues, and follow-ups across technical teams

Proposal & Commercial Support

  • Support proposal development by coordinating technical inputs, schedules, assumptions, resource needs, and deliverables
  • Assist in developing project scopes, statements of work, timelines, and execution plans for commercial opportunities
  • Work with leadership and technical teams to assess feasibility, resource demand, and execution risk before commitments are made
  • Support handoff from proposal to execution once projects are awarded

Resource Planning & Capacity Awareness

  • Identify project resource needs across engineering, operations, manufacturing, quality, and support functions
  • Communicate resource demand and project priorities to leadership to support planning and decision-making
  • Help evaluate what work can be realistically accepted based on current workload, technical capacity, and operational constraints
  • Maintain visibility into competing project demands and support prioritization discussions

Skills & Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Project Management, Operations, or a related field
  • 3–7 years of experience in project management, technical program management, commercial project execution, or customer-facing project coordination
  • Experience managing projects in a technical, manufacturing, industrial, energy, aerospace, defense, or regulated environment
  • Ability to coordinate across technical teams and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Experience developing project schedules, tracking milestones, and managing deliverables
  • Experience supporting proposals, statements of work, project scopes, or customer-funded projects
  • Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and stakeholders at the same time
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to identify risks, resource constraints, and schedule impacts early and communicate them clearly
  • Familiarity with project management tools, scheduling software, ERP systems, or project tracking systems preferred
  • Experience in nuclear, energy, manufacturing, aerospace, defense, or other regulated industries is a plus

Benefits

  • Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
  • Health Savings Account
  • Disability and Life Insurance
  • 401K Plan
  • Paid Time Off, Holidays
Skills
Project ManagementProject SchedulingStakeholder ManagementRisk ManagementCross-functional CoordinationProposal DevelopmentResource PlanningERP SystemsScheduling Software