Material Manager - Nuclear Projects
Coordinate the complete materials lifecycle for nuclear projects, from design-stage identification and procurement through receiving, inspection, staging, issuance, and installation readiness. This role keeps parts, tools, documentation, quality status, storage controls, and traceability aligned so outage and online project work can execute on schedule.
The best fit is a project materials, supply chain, procurement, or warehouse professional who has supported commercial nuclear projects or outages and can move comfortably between tracking systems, engineering documentation, warehouse activity, field coordination, and status reporting. Candidates must be willing to work onsite and perform hands-on material inspections and movement when needed.
Location: Richland, Washington
Schedule: Monday-Thursday, four 10-hour days
Work Setting: Onsite
Role Type: Contract
Contract Duration: Long-term contract opportunity with the ability to extend over 5-10 years, based on performance, business need, funding, and client approval
Openings: 1
Citizenship: U.S. citizenship required
Pay Rate: $54.50-$64.00 per hour
Per Diem: $216 per day, seven days per week for the first 12 months, for eligible contractors whose permanent residence is more than 100 miles from the worksite. Mobilization and demobilization assistance is available for eligible contractors living more than 500 miles from the worksite, subject to assignment terms. Eligibility and tax treatment depend on individual assignment facts and applicable rules and are confirmed before payment.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate materials procurement and readiness across project design, planning, execution, and closeout for refueling outages, forced outages, and online maintenance projects.
- Oversee new catalog identifications, material requests, purchase orders, and cross-functional follow-up so required material is available when scheduled work begins.
- Develop, maintain, and improve trackers that show current procurement, delivery, inspection, staging, and issuance status for project parts, tools, and materials.
- Verify parts and specialty vendor materials when they arrive onsite, confirming quantity, condition, quality requirements, documentation, and alignment with project needs.
- Validate Engineering Change bills of material against project requirements, including quality level and material status in Asset Suite 9.
- Coordinate with Engineering, Project Management, Supply Chain, warehouse personnel, vendors, and field teams to resolve shortages, shipping delays, logistics issues, and overage, shortage, damaged, and discrepancy conditions.
- Stage materials for project execution and maintain required identification, preservation, storage, and traceability controls from warehouse issuance through the point of installation.
- Prepare and deliver clear written and verbal procurement-status updates to project teams and senior management.
- Use hand and power tools for inventory and material-handling work and operate work vehicles when assigned and authorized.
- Support authorized business travel and other project-material duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- One of the following education and experience combinations: bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, project management, business, or a related field plus at least one year of technical-field experience; associate degree in a related technical curriculum plus at least three years of technical-field experience; or high school diploma/GED plus at least five years of technical-field experience.
- Experience coordinating project materials, procurement, supply chain, warehouse, shipping/receiving, or material-control activity in a technical, industrial, power-generation, or similarly regulated environment.
- Ability to track material requirements from identification and purchasing through receiving, inspection, staging, issuance, and installation readiness.
- Working knowledge of purchase orders, material requests, bills of material, inventory controls, shipping documentation, and material traceability.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and the ability to learn and use enterprise material-tracking systems.
- Ability to communicate material status, constraints, and recovery actions to project teams and senior leaders.
- Comfort using drills, impact drivers, warehouse spooling equipment, and common hand tools for material inventory and handling.
- Ability to lift and carry up to 50 pounds occasionally over short distances and more than 50 pounds rarely with appropriate assistance and controls.
- Ability to work onsite on a four-day, 10-hour schedule and meet nuclear-site access requirements.
- U.S. citizenship.
Preferred Qualifications
- Commercial nuclear power plant or nuclear outage materials experience.
- Experience supporting refueling outages, forced outages, online work management, engineering changes, or project implementation.
- Asset Suite 9 experience, including bill-of-material status or material-record review.
- Experience with catalog identification, material requests, purchase orders, OSD&D resolution, warehouse staging, preservation, and quality-level traceability.
- Project Management or Construction Management certification.
- Familiarity with nuclear human-performance tools, error-reduction practices, and cost-effective work-execution methods.
Benefits
Eligible full-time CRG contract employees working at least 30 hours per week may enroll in CRG benefits. Coverage begins on the first day of the month following 30 days after hire.
- Three Aetna medical plan options, including an HSA-compatible option; in-network preventive care is covered in full
- Voluntary dental and vision coverage
- $25,000 in company-paid basic life and AD&D coverage for employees enrolled in a CRG medical plan
- Voluntary life and AD&D, short-term disability, long-term disability, and accident coverage
- Employee-assistance resources and benefit-advocacy support
- Weekly pay and direct deposit
- Referral bonus opportunities
- Support from the CRG recruiting and account management team throughout the assignment
- 401(k) eligibility after 12 months as a CRG employee
Official CRG plan documents and carrier materials control eligibility, coverage, exclusions, limits, waiting periods, payroll deductions, and employee costs.
Eligible Washington employees accrue at least one hour of paid sick leave for every 40 hours worked, including overtime. There is no annual accrual cap. Accrued leave is available after 90 calendar days of employment, and at least 40 unused hours carry over to the next accrual year. Applicable law and any more generous employer policy govern coverage and use.