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Project Procurement Manager (Greenfield Projects)

The Nuclear Company · Columbia, South Carolina · On-site

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About The Nuclear Company

The Nuclear Company is America’s nuclear infrastructure platform. We’re building a fully integrated system to unite the nuclear deployment chain, scale new builds, and drive operations and security. Backed by Eclipse Ventures.

About the role

The Project Procurement Manager leads procurement execution for assigned greenfield nuclear Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) projects. Reporting within the Procurement & Supply Chain organization, this role owns the project procurement plan and partners with Category Management and project leadership to ensure purchasing activity supports project schedule, budget, quality, and delivery requirements.

What they're looking for

  • Own and execute the project procurement plan, aligning purchasing activity with the project schedule, budget, engineering release milestones, and required-on-site dates
  • Develop and maintain the project procurement schedule, incorporating engineering releases, supplier lead times, fabrication milestones, delivery requirements, and identified risks
  • Manage the full requisition-to-delivery lifecycle, including purchase requisitions, RFQs against established agreements and approved suppliers, purchase orders, change orders, expediting, and delivery
  • Apply enterprise category strategies, framework agreements, and approved supplier requirements to project purchases, escalating sourcing gaps or exceptions to Category Management
  • Proactively expedite long-lead nuclear equipment and critical components to protect the engineering and construction schedule
  • Track order status and supplier progress against required milestones, identifying delivery or quality risks and driving corrective and recovery actions
More about this role

The Nuclear Company is the fastest growing AI tech-enabled startup in the nuclear and energy space, pioneering a fleet-scale approach to building the next generation of nuclear reactors. Through our design-once, build-many model, we're accelerating the deployment of safe, reliable, and affordable nuclear energy.

We operate with an AI-first mindset. Every employee is expected to leverage AI, technology, and the Nuclear Operating System (NOS) as integral components of their role to improve the quality, speed, and impact of their work. We expect every team member to continuously identify opportunities to automate workflows, enhance decision-making, improve processes, and contribute to the ongoing evolution of NOS as a strategic operating capability that enables The Nuclear Company to scale with excellence.

We hire people who are driven by purpose, thrive in ambiguity, and are energized by building what has never been built before. Our team combines intellectual curiosity with high agency, embraces candid feedback and continuous learning, and holds themselves and others to exceptional standards. Our values— Transparency, Responsibility, Unity, Scrappy, and Tenacity —guide how we hire,...

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Procurement and Supply Chain

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