Description

Akima Infrastructure Services currently seeking Construction Manager to support the Waste Isolation Pilot Program (WIPP) contract in Carlsbad, NM.  To join our team of outstanding professionals, apply today!

 

Successful candidates will be employees of AIS, a premier government contractor charged with employing highly motivated and well-qualified personnel who can advance WIPP’s core mission to ensure a safe, secure, and reliable U.S. nuclear deterrent, which is essential to national security. Though employed by AIS, the successful candidate will take day-to-day direction and assignments from WIPP staff. Pay, benefits, Human Resources, and Employment Management functions are provided by AIS. 

 

Qualified applicants must be a US citizen, at least 18 years of age, and able to meet pre-employment requirements including any required physicals, drug screen, and/or background investigation to satisfy clearance requirements from the Department of Energy.

Responsibilities

The successful candidate is responsible for but not limited to:

• Responsible for managing, coordinating, and administering projects from the conceptual stages through planning, engineering, procurement, construction, start-up, performance testing, initial operations, and prime contract close-out.
• Responsible for assisting project controls, procurement, and business in technical reviews of work scopes, reviews and approvals or technical and pricing strategies.
• Responsible for communications and presentations to internal and external stakeholders.
• Supervises budgets and schedules, manages performance, reports progress, and initiates action to assure program / project objectives and schedules are met.
• In addition, oversight of executed project work within budget and according to site and engineering specifications.
• Overall, responsible for the project execution ensuring that the project is delivered within contractual requirements, standards of quality and safety to the M&O and customer standards.
• Engineering, Quality Assurance, Safety, Security, Operations, Mining, Hoisting, etc..
• Ensure scope, design basis, and objectives are defined clearly along with any detailed workplans.
• Obtains concurrence within multiple organizations through the AR/VR process and flows those down to the subcontractor or vendor.
• Monitors and controls all contractual commitments to ensure that all work is being performed in accordance with specifications, drawings, and terms of the contract.
• Oversees ES&H flow down requirements in the field to the subcontractor to ensure all site and CFR requirements are met.
• Promotes continuous improvement between all aspects of the project including project team members and stakeholders. 
• Coordinates and works with Project Controls on milestone payments and review/approvals of procurement invoices from the subcontractor or vendor.
• Works collectively and supports Procurement/Project Controls in the close out of project cost accounts and the prime contract even after full turnover to operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Project Management or Construction Management (or similar) plus ten (10) years of experience managing projects and leading cross-functional teams.
• Ability to obtain DOE Security Clearance.
• Due to the nature of the work, all candidates must be US Citizens.

Job ID2026-24985 Work TypeOn-Site