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