Senior Project Assurance Specialist

at  Urenco

Join us at Urenco USA (UUSA), where we’re leading the way in nuclear energy innovation. Our state-of-the-art facility located in Eunice, NM, is the sole uranium enrichment site in North America. We are actively looking for individuals who are ready to work collaboratively on-site in Eunice, NM, and we’re pleased to offer relocation support to help make this opportunity accessible to talented individuals like you. Come be a part of the future of clean energy.
To provide and enhance Urenco’s project assurance capabilities across a global footprint stretching over four operational sites and a number of business activities. Embedded within Design Authority the Project and Portfolio Assurer provides assurance in the delivery of capital projects.
The Project Assurance Specialist is to execute the annual assurance plan, contribute to continuous improvement throughout the organization, serve as a governance subject matter expert in terms of capital project delivery and help to promote industry leading practice of the delivery of capital projects.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Minimum Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree in project management, construction management or a related field
• 10 years of experience assessing and managing project risk in project controls, project consultancy, project delivery or project assurance, of which a minimum of 3 years should be working with multidisciplinary and diverse groups and teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s degree in project management, construction management or other related field
• 15 years of related experience and PMP, PMI, APM, Prince 2 or other related project controls, project management, construction management, or audit/assurance qualifications are highly desirable.

Job Details

• Work Location: Eunice, NM
• Work Schedule: Professional work schedule/ with minimal night/ weekend support. Some nights and weekend work may be required. Employees are also subject to call-outs as needed.
• Travel Required: 20% - 50% of the time or less as required.
• Security Clearance Requirement: CAA Access and an L or Q level security clearance
• Emergency Response Requirements: Emergency Response Organization (ERO) duty will be required; including being on-call (24/7) during your designated team duty week.
• Work Environment: Radiological exposure expectations of < 100 mrem/yr. General Office, Plant Production Areas. This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets etc.
• Responsible for the protection of confidential and proprietary information received during employment, including keeping information in strict confidence, exercising a reasonable degree of care to prevent disclosure to others, not disclosing or divulging either directly or indirectly information to others, and not using the information commercially or for any other purpose other than the performance of their duties for Urenco. Confidential information includes information and data of any kind concerning any matters affecting or relating to Urenco business or operations, including compensation, investigations, financial controls, etc.

Essential Skills

• Must have analytical skills with attention to detail specifically concern data collation, analysis, and presentation.
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively across a wide and diverse audience.
• Must have a professional level of competency with all Microsoft Office applications to include Outlook, Excel, Word, Visio, Project and Power Point. Must be proficient in MS Sharepoint.
• Must have excellent organizational and planning skills with the ability to respond to competing demands, changing priorities, and must be able to support a busy workload with multiple live projects.
• Must be able to maintain working papers and documentation which lead to conclusions and underpins reports to various levels of management from business unit to C-Suite executives and track observations / findings of assurance reviews as part of continuous improvement process.
• Must have an understanding of project delivery and the project lifecycle, project controls as related to delivery of capital projects and various types of contracts.

Primary Functions

• Working with Project Assurance Manager, assist in the development of the annual assurance plan.
• Champion and educate Urenco stakeholders about the value of project assurance.
• Working with Project Assurance Manager, agree scope of assurance reviews, and autonomously carryout assurance reviews.
• Carryout the annual assurance plan under the direction of the Project Assurance Manager. A fair amount of autonomy in how the annual plan is executed will be granted.
• Up-skill and train junior members of Project Assurance team.
• Oversee a small team (1-4) to deliver the annual assurance plan.
• Working with Project Assurance Manager, assist in the development of the annual assurance plan.
• Champion and educate Urenco stakeholders about the value of project assurance.
• Working with Project Assurance Manager, agree scope of assurance reviews, and autonomously carryout assurance reviews.
• Carryout the annual assurance plan under the direction of the Project Assurance Manager. A fair amount of autonomy in how the annual plan is executed will be granted.
• Up-skill and train junior members of Project Assurance team.
• Oversee a small team (1-4) to deliver the annual assurance plan.
• Ensure assurance reviews are conducted in accordance with established methodology.
• Be responsible for the quality of the delivery of the team, including reports or assurance review.
• Where external support is utilized lead, direct and ensure external support deliver in accordance with engagement plan.
• Autonomously converse with key project stakeholders.
• Autonomously write reports for consumption of key project stakeholders, business lines, and executive consumption.
• Working with Project Assurance Manager develop KPIs to allow for determination of trends of project delivery (improving, not improving). Contribute to capturing of KPIs.
• Maintain personal, functional, and organizational independence and objectivity.
• Carryout Assurance action tracker analysis to develop thematic focus on assurance activities.
• Perform trending analysis in preparation for reviews.

Physical Demands

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Moderate standing, walking and climbing.
• Exposure to both indoor and outdoor environments.
• Must be able to lift 20 pounds.

Benefits
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* Please note that we continually evaluate our plans and make adjustments as necessary to meet market and business requirements.

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