Program Manager (Nuclear Technologies, Diagnostics & Plant Systems)

ITER - International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor

Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France

As a Program Manager you will report to the Head of Construction Project (HCP) and supervise a team of Project Leaders, each managing a subset of the Program. Programs and projects will be up to ITER First Plasma phase, including activities necessary for post First Plasma integrated commissioning.

Overall, you will be responsible for achieving the objectives of the Program in terms of cost, schedule, and scope, including quality and performance, from design, procurement, assembly and installation of all components and systems, and commissioning through integrated commissioning, to successfully achieve the critical milestone of First Plasma, in preparation of operation phase of the ITER project.

Success in this role includes

Actively fostering involvement between the IO and Members’ DAs in the spirit of “one project – one team”, i.e. the ITER (IPT);
Leading the ITER IPT aligned to the specific Program, in the construction of the ITER facility up to and including first plasma commissioning in accordance with the ITER Project Specifications and Requirements;
Developing and maintaining plans and cost estimates through completion for the whole of the Program together with the subsystem’s projects;
Controlling cost, schedule, and scope performance/quality of the Program.

Key Duties, Scope, and Level of Accountability

Primary Responsibilities:

Develops strategy and maintains the plans for Design, Procurement, Assembly and Installation, Commissioning, and Integrated Commissioning in close collaboration with IO and DAs senior management;
Manages the Project Breakdown Structure and the matrixed teams therein, leveraging the resources made available by the IO and any other DAs participating in the IPT;
Ensures ITER site and configuration are managed as per the ITER Configuration Management Plan and as-built designs are recorded and maintained, in collaboration with ITER Design Integration;
Prepares and implements strategies and updates real time installation plan according to the in-kind contribution delivery dates, the development of processes and procedures for efficient construction management;
Establishes and maintains a detailed construction baseline (scope, time schedule and cost), assuring surveillance, management of the execution of works, control of the cost and quality, and reporting systematically to HCP in collaboration with Safety & Quality team.

Additional Responsibilities:

Assures implementation of duties/rules of Occupational and Nuclear Safety Security in all Plant Areas governed by the Program Managers Function propagating the program responsibility actions into Project leaders actions;
Reports progress to the HCP and when required also to the Executive Project Board, formed with the Director-General (DG), Deputies to DG and the Heads of the DAs;
Follows up on DAs’ in-kind procurement activities as well as the procurement activities directly implemented by the ITER organization in collaboration with the Administrative units;
Ensures preparation of tenders and manages contracts within the planned production at costs respecting the authorized Contracts Values to execute the Tokamak Machine Assembly and Plant Installation, if applicable also including support to additional transversal support services such as lifting, storage and transportation;
Executes or supports, Commissioning and Integrated Commissioning of the Tokamak Machine and Plant, following completion of leak tests, together with integrated dossier of installation completion supported by all in field engineering dossier certifying resolution of in field Non- Conformities, in field deviation request as well as in field design changes;
Contributes to make sure that all the Plant Installation activities and the Machine Assembly are carried out in accordance with the ITER Nuclear Safety, the Environment Protection and the Occupational & Health Safety standards.

Experience & Profile

Demonstrated experience and technical competencies in:

Minimum 15 years’ experience in construction project management in the field of nuclear installations, and scientific or technical international projects;
Essential competencies and experience required for success in the role:
- Design, manufacturing in the following topics with proven high level technical competencies is considered essential;
- Construction of research infrastructures, preferably in the nuclear fusion field including nuclear licensing process;
- Technical project management in nuclear construction;
- Program Management experience in large construction project with multi-national collaboration, in-kind procurement, planning, measuring progress, managing risks and costs, and reporting on progress to manage programs or initiatives within the constraints of human and financial constraints;
- Inclusive leadership (maintaining healthy working environment), with a high level of headship for motivating and developing staff.
Advantageous competencies and experience:
- Creating an inclusive environment that promotes cross-functional analysis and effective decision making so that leaders are empowered to place decision making at the most appropriate level;
- Building strong partnerships and working collaboratively positively with all Project stakeholders, being force of proposal & solutions’ oriented to reach consensus applied to large nuclear, fusion, fission or highly technical projects in compliance with quality, safety, security and technical applicable standards;
- Coordinating and overseeing complex construction projects from design to operation phases while providing effective leadership in management structures in similar international or intergovernmental settings;
- High-level strategic negotiations and influencing abilities with multi-national internal and external partners, including the ability and willingness to solicit and consider varying inputs and opinions and make appropriate recommendations/ tough decisions aligned with the ITER project’s objectives;
- Leading Quality Control (QC) within a heavily regulated nuclear environment would be beneficial;
- Driving a project culture that underpins and maintains safe and secure working conditions and enforces the highest standard of safe, healthy, and secure work practice.

Education:

Essential: Masters’ degree, PhD or equivalent in engineering, management, or other relevant discipline;
The required education degree(s) may be substituted by extensive professional experience involving similar work responsibilities and/or additional training certificates in relevant domains.