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Job Summary

The Major Projects – Senior Project Manager supports Vistra’s nuclear growth initiatives by managing execution of complex nuclear projects, including Extended Power Uprates. This role requires proven experience delivering large-scale nuclear projects, coordinating multi-disciplinary teams, and ensuring safety, quality, cost, and schedule performance. The position provides critical project leadership while contributing to Vistra’s mission of safe, reliable, and sustainable power generation.

The Senior Project Manager is responsible to coordinate with multiple senior leaders, multiple large-scale vendors, and the station to ensure execution of hundreds of separate modifications to the plant in support of Extended Power Uprates, a total cost of $1-2B.

This position can be based at one of our nuclear sites in Ohio or Pennsylvania (Perry, Davis-Besse or Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Plant).

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

+ Manage execution of Extended Power Uprate projects from design through implementation, ensuring safety, budget, schedule, and quality requirements are met.

+ Define project scope, deliverables, and success criteria in coordination with site engineering, licensing, and executive sponsors.

+ Oversee project budgets and resource plans, maintaining strict cost and performance controls.

+ Coordinate cross-functional teams (engineering, licensing, operations, EPC partners, OEMs) to deliver system upgrades and plant capacity improvements.

+ Identify and manage technical, regulatory, and execution risks to support timely NRC approvals and project milestones.

+ Apply proven project management practices to optimize planning, execution, and outage performance.

+ Provide regular status updates and milestone reporting to project leadership and executive management.

Education, Experience, & Skill Requirements

+ At least 10 years of nuclear industry experience, with 5+ years in leadership roles.

+ Proven experience delivering complex projects as a lead project manager or site manager of projects.

+ Strong background in project management, engineering, and construction oversight.

+ Familiarity with finance, project controls, and cost/schedule management.

+ Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and coordinate with EPCs, OEMs, and regulators.

+ Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

+ Ability to travel as required to support project execution.

+ Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering required.

+ PMP certification required.

+ Professional Engineer (preferred).

Key Metrics

+ Safety – 100% compliance with NRC and fleet standards; zero violations.

+ Quality – Deliverables approved with minimal RAIs/corrective actions.

+ Schedule – On-time completion of EPU milestones and outage work.

+ Cost – ≥95% budget adherence with proactive variance control.

+ Regulatory – Timely NRC approvals of LARs and submittals.

+ Integration – Upgrades deliver increased capacity and long-term reliability.

+ Stakeholders – Clear, accurate reporting that builds executive and regulator confidence.

Job Family

Plant Operations

Company

Vistra Nuclear Operations Company

Locations

Perry, Ohio

Ohio

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Vistra (NYSE: VST) is a leading Fortune 500 integrated retail electricity and power generation company based in Irving, Texas, that provides essential power resources to customers, businesses, and communities from California to Maine.

Vistra is the largest competitive power generator in the U.S., with a capacity of approximately 41,000 megawatts, or enough to power 20 million homes, operating in all of the major competitive wholesale markets in the country. Vistra is a leader in the energy transformation and expansion with an unyielding focus on reliability, affordability, and sustainability, powered by a diverse portfolio that includes natural gas, nuclear, coal, solar, and battery energy storage facilities. The company continues to grow its zero-carbon resources, operating the second-largest fleet of competitive nuclear power plants in the country, substantial battery energy storage capacity, and a growing number of solar facilities.

Vistra is one of the largest competitive electricity providers in the country and takes an innovative, customer-centric approach to retail, offering solutions to meet customers’ needs, including more than 50 renewable energy plans. Through its family of retail brands, Vistra serves approximately 5 million residential, commercial, and industrial retail customers.

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_It is the policy of the Company to comply with all employment laws and to afford equal employment opportunity to individuals in all aspects of employment, including in selection for job opportunities, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military service, protected veteran status, or any other consideration protected by federal, state or local laws._

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