The Nuclear Company is the fastest-growing AI-enabled startup in nuclear energy, bringing together experienced nuclear professionals, technologists, engineers, and builders to deliver the next generation of nuclear power. Through our design-once, build-many approach, we are creating a repeatable model for deploying nuclear fleets—combining the industry’s highest standards for safety, quality, and regulatory rigor with the speed and innovation required to meet the world’s growing energy needs.

We are building the future of nuclear work. Every employee is expected to use AI, technology, and our Nuclear Operating System (NOS) to strengthen engineering and operational decision-making, improve quality, eliminate inefficiencies, and accelerate execution without compromising safety. Our nuclear expertise shapes the continued evolution of NOS, enabling us to capture institutional knowledge, standardize best practices, and deliver complex projects with greater consistency and certainty.

We hire people who believe nuclear energy is essential to human progress. Our team is made up of mission-driven experts who respect the rigor of the industry while challenging outdated ways of working. They bring deep technical judgment, intellectual curiosity, high agency, and the humility to learn from others. Our values—Transparency, Responsibility, Unity, Scrappy, and Tenacity—guide how we hire, collaborate, and make decisions. Together, they form TRUST, the foundation of our safety culture and our commitment to intellectual honesty, personal accountability, open communication, and operational excellence.

About the role

The Project Manager, Development owns the integrated execution of one or more nuclear development projects through the Front-End Loading (FEL) stage-gate process, with accountability for scope, schedule, cost, and risk across all development workstreams. They integrate a broad matrixed team spanning land, licensing, permitting, interconnection, engineering, environmental, cost, finance, legal, and commercial functions, and serve as the single point of accountability to the project sponsor. The PM operates the project governance rhythm — weekly executive summaries, deliverable and milestone tracking, risk registers, and stage-gate checklists — and drives each project to a successful gate decision with complete, defensible deliverables.

Responsibilities

Integrated project schedule and deliverable ownership for the assigned FEL phase, including milestone cohort tracking, critical-path management, and schedule adherence reporting.
Core project management documents: Project Execution Plan, Project Charter, stage-gate checklists, delegation of authority, variance management, and weekly executive summaries.
Cross-functional integration of land, licensing, permitting, interconnection, engineering, environmental, cost, finance, legal, and commercial workstreams, including interface and dependency resolution.
Risk and fatal-flaw management: maintain the project risk register, drive mitigations to closure, and escalate threats to stage-gate criteria.
Stage-gate preparation and governance: deliverable completeness reviews, gate package assembly, and presentation to governance boards.
Cost performance management against approved budgets, including coordination on estimates, escalation, contingency, and funding tranche requests.
Scenario and strategy analysis (schedule acceleration, pull-forward of long-lead activities, decision-gate timing) to inform executive decisions.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, business, or a related technical field.
8+ years of project management experience on large capital projects, including 3+ years in early-phase development or front-end loading (FEL/FEED) environments.
Demonstrated experience managing multidisciplinary teams within a stage-gate or phase-gate governance framework.
Working knowledge of project controls fundamentals: CPM scheduling, cost estimate classification (AACE), risk management, and change control.