Natura Resources LLC
Senior Project Manager, MSR-1
Abilene, TX
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Full time
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Natura Resources is seeking a Senior Project Manager, MSR-1 to support disciplined execution of the MSR-1 reactor project, a first-of-a-kind molten salt reactor project being delivered with strategic engineering, procurement, construction, manufacturing, and technical partners. The Senior Project Manager is responsible for day-to-day project execution coordination, schedule and action tracking, contractor interface, issue resolution, project reporting, and integration of cross-functional workstreams. This role works under the direction of the Project Director, MSR-1 to ensure project activities remain aligned with approved cost, schedule, scope, technical, QA, licensing, procurement, and stakeholder requirements. The successful candidate will bring strong project execution experience, sound judgment, disciplined follow-through, and the ability to drive alignment across contractors, internal teams, and project stakeholders in a fast-moving, high-visibility project environment.
About Natura Resources LLC
Description
The Senior Project Manager, MSR-1 provides project execution leadership for assigned MSR-1 activities, including coordination between the owner team, EPC contractor, suppliers, engineering, QA, licensing, project controls, procurement, finance, and other supporting functions.
This role supports implementation of the project operating model by maintaining execution discipline, driving issue resolution, coordinating project reviews, tracking commitments, supporting change evaluation, and ensuring project information is visible, current, and actionable.
The Senior Project Manager is expected to identify project risks early, remove execution barriers, escalate issues appropriately, and support a culture of ownership, transparency, and disciplined project delivery.
Location: Abilene, TX / Hybrid / Remote eligible
Employment Status: Full-Time
Benefits: Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance, 401(k), Paid Time Off (PTO)
Reports To: Vice President, Reactor Delivery
Role Authority
The Senior Project Manager, MSR-1 has delegated authority to manage day-to-day project execution, coordinate cross-functional work, lead assigned project reviews, track execution risks, resolve working-level issues, and elevate decisions that could affect project cost, schedule, scope, technical direction, QA, licensing, procurement, or stakeholder commitments.
The role may recommend approval of changes, recovery actions, execution priorities, and issue resolutions within assigned scope, but does not independently approve material changes to project scope, budget, schedule baseline, contract terms, licensing commitments, QA requirements, or technical requirements without appropriate Project Director, Engineering, QA, Legal, Finance, or executive approval.
Responsibilities
Project Execution and Integration
Lead day-to-day coordination of assigned MSR-1 execution activities, ensuring work is aligned with approved project priorities, schedule needs, technical direction, QA requirements, licensing assumptions, procurement activities, and stakeholder commitments.
Coordinate across project leadership, engineering, QA, licensing, procurement, project controls, finance, operations readiness, contractors, suppliers, and external partners to maintain alignment and resolve execution issues. Ensure decisions, actions, assumptions, risks, and commitments are documented, assigned, and tracked to closure.
Schedule, Risk, Action, and Issue Management
Support the development, maintenance, and execution of the integrated project schedule. Work with project controls and functional leads to identify schedule risks, resource constraints, interface issues, and recovery actions before they affect major milestones.
Maintain disciplined tracking of project actions, issues, risks, open decisions, dependencies, and escalations. Ensure project reviews are structured, decision-focused, and supported by current information.
Change, Contractor, and Commercial Coordination
Support the review, evaluation, and recommended disposition of project changes, including scope changes, schedule impacts, cost impacts, technical issues, supplier issues, and contractor-submitted changes. Ensure change-related information is coordinated with project controls, contracts, engineering, QA, licensing, procurement, and finance before approval.
Serve as a primary working-level interface with contractors and suppliers on assigned execution matters. Coordinate resolution of contractor questions, documentation gaps, performance concerns, schedule constraints, and technical-commercial issues that could affect project delivery.
Reporting, Readiness, and Stakeholder Support
Prepare and support project status updates, stewardship reviews, executive briefings, contractor coordination meetings, and internal project reviews. Provide clear, timely, and decision-ready information on project progress, risks, issues, actions, changes, and resource needs.
Support construction, commissioning, testing, turnover, and operational readiness planning by ensuring project activities account for QA, licensing, procurement, records, training, procedure, and configuration management needs as the project matures.
Minimum Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience managing or supporting complex projects in nuclear, energy, infrastructure, industrial, chemical, manufacturing, construction, defense, or other high-consequence environments.
- Experience leading day-to-day project execution, cross-functional coordination, contractor interface, schedule tracking, issue resolution, and project reporting.
- Working knowledge of project controls, schedule management, risk management, change management, procurement, contracts, and project execution processes.
- Experience supporting complex contractor, EPC, engineering services, manufacturing, T&M, cost-reimbursable, or supplier execution environments.
- Demonstrated ability to identify execution risks, resolve working-level issues, communicate clearly, and escalate decisions appropriately.
- Strong leadership, communication, organization, problem-solving, and cross-functional coordination skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management, business, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in nuclear power, advanced reactors, research reactors, DOE projects, NRC-regulated environments, or nuclear supplier organizations.
- Experience supporting first-of-a-kind technology projects, demonstration projects, capital projects, or projects transitioning from design into execution.
- Familiarity with QA requirements, licensing commitments, design control, configuration management, document control, procurement quality, supplier documentation, and project records.
- Experience coordinating construction, commissioning, startup, testing, turnover, operational readiness, or field execution activities.
- Experience working with embedded owner teams, EPC contractors, engineering partners, fabrication suppliers, or cross-functional project controls.
- PMP, MPM, MBA, construction management credential, or other relevant project management certification.
Physical Demands
This role is primarily based in Abilene, TX, with regular project site presence and occasional travel to contractor offices, supplier facilities, stakeholder meetings, or partner locations as needed. The role may require participation in project reviews, field walkdowns, constructability reviews, supplier reviews, and site-based execution activities.
Must be capable of working in office, project site, laboratory, industrial, or construction-adjacent environments as needed. Occasional lifting of technical materials up to 40 lbs may be required.