Technical Program Manager

The role

The Technical Program Manager will deliver on customer contracts by owning the end-to-end process from technical milestones to reactor deployment. You will manage contract deliverables, program schedules, and financial performance while interfacing with engineering, manufacturing, and customer teams.

What you will do

• Drive contract milestones to completion.
• Manage the timely execution of regulatory, engineering, and siting deliverables.
• Serve as the primary interface with contracting officers, program offices, installation personnel, and end users.
• Architect and maintain program integrated master schedules and cost baselines.
• Manage contract compliance including reporting requirements and milestone billing.
• Support negotiation of contract modifications and change orders.
• Identify, assess, and drive resolution of programmatic risks and cross-functional dependencies.
• Own program financial performance, including budget and resource forecasting.
• Stand up and refine project management processes, tools, and reporting cadence.
• Carry the customer voice back to Radiant to shape engineering and deployment decisions.

Required qualifications

• 5-7+ years of experience in program management or project management.
• Experience managing programs requiring the delivery of complex capital equipment or large-scale industrial systems.
• Proven ability to manage programs with significant technical complexity, multiple parallel workstreams, and cross-functional dependencies.
• U.S. citizenship required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
• Must work 100% onsite at Radiant’s El Segundo HQ.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with electric power infrastructure projects and knowledge of business issues associated with power delivery services.
• Experience supporting U.S. government programs.
• Experience building and/or deploying infrastructure at DoD installations.
• Active DoD security clearance.

Benefits

• Substantial incentive stock plan for all full-time employees.
• Medical: 100% up to base silver level plan for employee + 50% dependents, offers up to Platinum plans.
• One Medical: Sponsored memberships for employees and their dependents.
• Vision: 100% top tier plan coverage + 50% for dependents.
• Dental: 100% top tier plan coverage, orthodontia extra, 50% for dependents.
• Voluntary life, accident, hospital, critical illness, commuter and FSA/HSA are offered as employee contributed benefits.
• 8-weeks of paid parental leave for all parents.
• Additional paid pregnancy leave for CA employees.
• Nuclear Engineering Certificate Program: 100% covered educational program with Penn State University for eligible employees.
• Daily catered lunch.
• Free snacks and drinks.
• Flexible PTO policy.

Before you apply

• U.S. citizenship required (absolutely no exceptions).
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
• Any job offer made will be contingent upon the applicant’s capacity to serve in compliance with U.S. export controls.

About the company

Radiant is an El Segundo, CA-based company building the world's only mass-produced, transportable nuclear microreactors. Founded in 2020, Radiant is under contract to deliver power to the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force.