Modification Manager at Centrus Energy in Piketon, OH

Centrus Energy is seeking an experienced Modification (Mod) Manager to lead the full life-cycle delivery of facility and system modifications. This role is accountable for defining scope, managing design and construction activities, and guiding each modification through engineering change control to turnover and close-out. The position requires demonstrated expertise in cost, schedule, risk, and configuration management within a highly regulated nuclear or process-industrial environment.

Job Summary

Centrus Energy is seeking an experienced Modification (Mod) Manager to lead the full life-cycle delivery of facility and system modifications. This role is accountable for defining scope, managing design and construction activities, and guiding each modification through engineering change control to turnover and close-out. The position requires demonstrated expertise in cost, schedule, risk, and configuration management within a highly regulated nuclear or process-industrial environment.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Lead all stages of the Engineering Change / Modification process – from initiation, scoping, and design through installation, commissioning, turnover, and close-out – ensuring alignment with Centrus Engineering Change Control and Configuration Management procedures
• Develop and maintain project baselines (scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, and stakeholder registers). Author project management plans, perform change control, and meet performance objectives
• Coordinate multidiscipline engineering teams, construction contractors, maintenance staff, and plant operations to ensure design packages, work plans, and field execution comply with applicable codes, standards, and nuclear quality requirements
• Prepare and defend cost estimates, procurement packages, and forecasts; manage budgets and support negotiations with vendors or customers as required
• Champion nuclear-grade safety culture, perform hazard analyses, and participate in DOE/NRC audits. Ensure modifications satisfy NQA-1, 10 CFR, OSHA, NFPA, and site licensing requirements
• Provide clear, timely status reports, risk registers, and decision logs to senior management and external regulators; maintain project records in approved document-control systems

We'd Love to Hear from Candidates with:

• 5+ years managing multidisciplinary engineering or plant-modification projects in nuclear, chemical processing, or similarly regulated industries
• Demonstrated success controlling scope, schedule, cost, risk, quality, and configuration for capital or sustaining-plant modifications
• Proficiency with integrated project controls tools, e.g., Primavera P6 and MS Project
• Strong interpersonal, negotiation, and written communication skills; adept at presenting technical and financial data to executive and regulatory audiences
• Experience leading constructability, operability, maintainability, and safety (COMS) reviews and coordinating outage or site-access schedules is highly desirable
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is advantageous but not required; equivalent credentials (e.g., APM, IPMA) considered
• Must possess or have the ability to obtain and maintain a “Q” Clearance

A Successful Candidate Brings:

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Q-level security clearance

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.

This position will require a pre­-employment background check and a pre-employment drug test.

Centrus Energy and all subsidiaries shall abide by the applicable legal requirements. We prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.

This position requires the successful candidate to obtain and maintain a Q security clearance. Candidates for positions requiring a security clearance are required to be tested for the absence of any illegal drug as defined in 10 CFR 707.4 prior to an offer of employment being made. In addition, once employed, employees will become part of a random drug testing program and may also be tested in the event of any incident causing injury or causing damage to property, or if it is determined that there is a reasonable suspicion the employee is under the influence of drugs or alcohol. This position will require preemployment background check on the part of the Company and in order to receive a Q security clearance, a background investigation by the Federal government. Subsequent Federal government reinvestigations may be required.

Centrus Energy Corp. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.