Minimum 10 years of nuclear industry experience; 5+ in leadership roles
Experience delivering large-scale nuclear projects as lead project manager or site manager
Strong project management, engineering, and construction supervision background
Knowledge of finance, project controls, and cost/schedule management
Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and coordinate with EPCs and OEMs
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering and PMP certification required
Responsibilities
Manage complex Extended Power Uprate projects from design to implementation, ensuring all safety, budget, and quality standards are met
Define project scope, deliverables, and success criteria with engineering and executive sponsors
Oversee project budgets and resource plans while maintaining strict controls and performance metrics
Coordinate cross-functional teams to execute system upgrades and plant capacity improvements
Identify and manage technical and regulatory risks to achieve NRC approvals and project goals
Apply established project management practices to enhance planning and execution
Provide regular project updates and milestones to leadership and executive management
Benefits
Opportunity to lead significant nuclear projects critical to Vistra's mission
Work in a dynamic environment with cross-disciplinary teams
Contribute to sustainable power generation
Career advancement within a leading nuclear power company
Potential for travel to support project execution
Full Job Description
Job Summary The Major Projects - Senior Manager, Projects supports Vistra's nuclear growth initiatives by managing execution of complex nuclear projects, including Extended Power Uprates. This role requires proven experience delivering large-scale nuclear projects, coordinating multi-disciplinary teams, and ensuring safety, quality, cost, and schedule performance. The position provides critical project leadership while contributing to Vistra's mission of safe, reliable, and sustainable power generation.
The Senior Manager, Projects is responsible for coordinating with multiple senior leaders, multiple large-scale vendors, and the station to ensure execution of hundreds of separate modifications to the plant in support of Extended Power Uprates, a total cost of $1-2B.
Job Description
Key Accountabilities
Manage execution of Extended Power Uprate projects from design through implementation, ensuring safety, budget, schedule, and quality requirements are met.
Define project scope, deliverables, and success criteria in coordination with site engineering, licensing, and executive sponsors.
Oversee project budgets and resource plans, maintaining strict cost and performance controls.
Coordinate cross-functional teams (engineering, licensing, operations, EPC partners, OEMs) to deliver system upgrades and plant capacity improvements.
Identify and manage technical, regulatory, and execution risks to support timely NRC approvals and project milestones.
Apply proven project management practices to optimize planning, execution, and outage performance.
Provide regular status updates and milestone reporting to project leadership and executive management.
Education, Experience, & Skill Requirements
At least 10 years of nuclear industry experience, with 5+ years in leadership roles.
Proven experience delivering complex projects as a lead project manager or site manager of projects.
Strong background in project management, engineering, and construction oversight.
Familiarity with finance, project controls, and cost/schedule management.
Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and coordinate with EPCs, OEMs, and regulators.
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to travel as required to support project execution.
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering required.
PMP certification required.
Professional Engineer (preferred).
Key Metrics
Safety - 100% compliance with NRC and fleet standards; zero violations.
Quality - Deliverables approved with minimal RAIs/corrective actions.
Schedule - On-time completion of EPU milestones and outage work.
Cost - 60;95% budget adherence with proactive variance control.
Regulatory - Timely NRC approvals of LARs and submittals.
Integration - Upgrades deliver increased capacity and long-term reliability.
Stakeholders - Clear, accurate reporting that builds executive and regulator confidence.
Job Family Plant Operations
Company Vistra Nuclear Operations Company
Locations Oak Harbor, Ohio
Ohio
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.
