Vistra Corp.

Major Projects - Operations Manager

Vistra Corp.$125K — $150K *
Energy & Utilities
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering
  • 15 years of engineering experience in nuclear power
  • At least 5 years in a leadership role
  • Shift Technical Advisor (STA) qualified
  • Experience with Ops impacts and site processes
  • Strong knowledge of NRC regulations and INPO guidelines
  • Ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams on complex projects

Responsibilities

  • Provide operations oversight and technical direction for all projects
  • Coordinate modifications for system compatibility
  • Direct and approve operations reviews for licensing compliance
  • Manage support contracts for quality and scope adherence
  • Lead independent operational reviews for design integrity
  • Interface with regulatory bodies for engineering deliverables
  • Drive technical issue resolution to meet project timelines

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on major nuclear operations projects
  • Involvement in high-complexity engineering challenges
  • Collaboration with regulatory agencies and industry experts
  • Impactful role ensuring nuclear safety and compliance
  • Career growth potential in a leading nuclear company
Full Job Description
Job Summary
Responsible for managing and completing the operations scope of a major project at Beaver Valley and fleet project support. Ensures technical excellence, regulatory compliance, and successful integration of all systems into existing plant infrastructure.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities
• Provide Operations oversight and technical direction for all design, modification, and testing activities.
• Coordinate all interconnecting modifications to ensure system compatibility and operational readiness between Vistra and the Contractors.
• Direct and approve Operations reviews, ensuring alignment with nuclear safety and licensing requirements.
• Manage and guide support contract organization to maintain quality, scope, and schedule compliance.
• Manage and Lead Independent Operational Reviews to validate design integrity, constructability, and compliance with nuclear standards.
• Interface with regulatory bodies, internal stakeholders, and external contractors to ensure all engineering deliverables meet NRC and INPO requirements.
• Drive resolution of technical issues, ensuring timely decision-making to support project milestones.
• Ensure system designs consider long-term operability, maintainability, and integration with plant operations to include online and offline impacts, procedures, training, turnover and commissioning.

Education, Experience, & Skill Requirements
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering
• 15 years of engineering experience in nuclear power, with at least 5 years in a leadership role
• Shift Technical Advisor (STA) qualified
• Required experience with Ops Impacts, evaluations, training, procedures, site coordination, and Comanche Peak site processes
• Strong knowledge of NRC regulations, INPO guidelines, and industry standards
• Demonstrated ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams on high-complexity projects
• Available for travel for project support

Key Metrics
• On-time delivery of milestones.
• Compliance with all nuclear safety, licensing, and quality requirements.
• Successful completion of independent reviews with minimal corrective actions.
• Effective coordination between proj site leadership, 0perations, contractors, and third parties.

Job Family
Plant Operations

Company
Vistra Nuclear Operations Company

Locations
Shippingport, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

About Vistra Corp.

Vistra (NYSE: VST) is a leading Fortune 500 integrated retail electricity and power generation company that provides essential resources to customers, businesses, and communities from California to Maine. Based in Irving, Texas, Vistra is a leader in the energy transformation with an unyielding focus on reliability, affordability, and sustainability. The company safely operates a reliable, efficient, power generation fleet of natural gas, nuclear, coal, solar, and battery energy storage facilities while taking an innovative, customer-centric approach to its retail business. In the 2020 Forbes Global 2000, Vistra Energy was ranked as the 756th-largest public company in the world. The company owns the Moss Landing Power Plant in California which currently contains the largest battery energy storage system in the world. In 2016, Texas Competitive Electric Holdings, parent company of TXU Energy and Luminant, emerged from Chapter 11. TCEH was then rebranded as Vistra Energy. Vistra acquired Dynegy in 2018. In 2019, Ambit Energy was acquired, resulting in a 32% residential market share in ERCOT, with NRG Energy as its largest competitor. It also acquired Crius Energy in 2019.
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Size
5,060 employees
Market Cap
$9,272
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