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About the job

Overview

The ENERCON Federal Services team is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to join the team and be located in Oak Ridge, TN. This is a key leadership role focused on technical excellence, team development, and client success.

Responsibilities

Imagine a day where you inspire a team to push boundaries, turning complex challenges into engineered solutions that matter. You lead with purpose, mentor with heart, and build trusted partnerships that shape the future. Every decision you make moves projects, people, and possibilities forward.

Leadership & Staff Development: Provide day-to-day leadership and mentorship to a multidisciplinary engineering team. Conduct performance reviews, support career development, and promote a culture of growth. Recruit, hire, and onboard new team members. Identify and develop future leaders within the organization

Client & Business Development: Maintain and strengthen client relationships. Collaborate with Business Development to support proposals and win new work. Contribute to development of proposals, including technical scopes and labor estimates

Project & Task Management: Oversee major projects, ensuring quality, budget, and schedule alignment with the support of your engineering leadership team. Lead weekly team meetings to monitor progress and allocate resources. Lead and manage large-scale, multi-discipline engineering projects from concept through completion. Ensure project execution aligns with scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations. Conduct regular project reviews and risk assessments to ensure proactive issue resolution and capturing lessons learned. Coordinate task assignments and resource allocation across teams to balance workload. Monitor project performance metrics and implement corrective actions as needed. Ensure compliance with internal processes, client requirements, and regulatory standards

Technical Expertise: Apply deep engineering knowledge to complex system and equipment designs. Ensure compliance with DOE requirements and industry standards #LI-SH7

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering required

Licensed Professional Engineer (PE) required

10+ years of engineering design experience

Familiarity with DOE projects

Experience leading designs of commercial projects

Experience in project and people management

Strong technical expertise in one or more engineering disciplines

Excellent communication, technical writing, and leadership skills

U.S. Citizenship and ability to gain unescorted access to nuclear sites

Required to travel at least 25% of the time to client sites for project meetings, marketing meetings, conferences and to ENERCON regional offices

Compensation Range

USD $160,000.00 - USD $230,000.00 /Yr. Additional Information

ENERCON Services, Inc. (ENERCON) is powered by people who make a difference. We offer rewarding careers in a culture built on excellence, innovation, and growth.

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The compensation range listed is a good-faith estimate of the compensation expected for this position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, geographic location, and internal equity.

Some positions may be performed remotely in one or more U.S. states. Compensation is aligned with applicable pay transparency requirements and reflects expected compensation at the time of posting.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future employer sponsorship. We ask all candidates this question to better understand work authorization and any potential sponsorship needs. Employment may be contingent upon passing pre-employment and random drug/alcohol screenings, background checks, and annual motor vehicle record reviews per company and client policies.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

AI Disclosure & Accommodations

ENERCON may use AI or automated tools to assist with application review and communication.

Human Decisions: All final hiring decisions are made solely by human reviewers.

Your Rights: To request an accommodation or opt out of any automated review and/or communication, email recruiting@enercon.com before applying.

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