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Sr. Program Manager (Codes/Standards)

Division of Engineering | King Of Prussia, PA

Posted Date 4/16/2026
Description This position is located in Division of Engineering.
The supervisor is Raj Iyengar
This position IS subject to Confidential Financial Disclosure reporting requirements. This position IS subject to security ownership restriction reporting requirements.The successful candidate will perform the full range of the Senior Program Manager, manages and administers the agency's Code and Standards program involving reactor and nuclear safety research, providing technical authority responsibility for the codes and standards, guidance development, policy development, and enhanced safety in NRC programs and processes. Assignments involve leading and managing projects of agency-wide scope. The incumbent serves as a recognized authority on Codes and Standards program involving reactor safety projects by top level management officials within and outside the agency.


Such duties include but are not limited to:

Manages and administers the agency's Code and Standards program by providing strategic planning and technical guidance, support and coordination to enhance regulatory effectiveness. Provides authoritative expertise and advice to branch and division management in technical studies in support of consensus codes and standards, guidance development, policy development, and enhanced safety in NRC programs and processes. Responsible for planning and coordinating activities of projects that stretch across organizational boundaries. Ensures that project tasks are accomplished by staff in the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, as well as in other offices, in a manner that is effective and efficient and minimizes unnecessary regulatory burden activities.

Leads in and manages broad and complex projects that involve the most complex and breadth of scope for the agency. Serves as an authoritative agency representative in interacting with internal and external stakeholders on matters associated with reactor safety project(s). Oversees all aspects of projects and ensures the vast variety of project elements are appropriately and effectively addressed, including, but are not limited to, budget and schedule, and project risks. Exercises technically authoritative expertise in providing input to budget formulation for unique and complex special projects. Manages comprehensive project plans, including goals, tasks, assignments, date coordination, meetings, briefings, deliverables, and required references. Reviews, comments, and monitors implementation progress of communication plans and draft memoranda for assigned programs and processes.

Reviews and provides programmatic and technical assistance on the division's research program plans. Provides definitive strategic, operating and performance assistance for advance planning for division's research activities. Assists the Branch Chief in ensuring that division staff work activities are effectively aligned with the needs of user offices, and divisional staff. Ensures that divisional work products are technically-sound, coherent and responsive to user needs, and consistent with the division's mission. Accurately represents and clearly articulates the RES office view and position. Remains well informed on assigned NRC advanced reactor programs and internal and external developments that may affect these programs.
In order to qualify for this position, you must have at least one year of specialized experience at the next lower grade level in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE is defined as: the experience that demonstrates the knowledge of NRC regulations, consensus codes and standards, guidance development, in order to efficiently manage and administer the agency's Codes and Standards program involving reactor and nuclear safety.

A description of how you possess the specialized experience as well as how you meet the qualifications desired in an ideal candidate should be addressed in your resume.

The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the following:

1. Demonstrated knowledge of NRC's regulations, codes and standards, guidance development, policy development, and enhanced safety in NRC programs and processes.

(Example) Describe your experience that demonstrates your knowledge of NRC's regulations codes and standards, guidance development, policy development, and enhanced safety in NRC programs and processes. Examples may include impactful experience in licensing, inspection, regulatory research, technical review, etc. Include multiple examples of where you led or had a key role in applying your NRC knowledge in significant, complex situations.

2. Demonstrated ability to lead risk-informed decision-making and/or innovation and transformation related to codes and standards, regulatory framework, guides and criteria, and regulatory oversight programs or policy issues related to commercial light-water nuclear power reactors, advanced reactors, non-power reactors, or other similar regulated entities.

(Example) Describe your experience and accomplishments to leading change related to risk-informed decision-making and/or innovation and transformation. Discuss examples of where you led or had a lead role in significant, complex projects. For each example, discuss the challenge, context, the actions you took, and the results, including the outcome and the impact on the organization.

3. Demonstrated ability to prioritize, plan, manage, and administer complex licensing and research programs involving reactor and nuclear safety, including licensing, codes and standards, guidance development, policy development for enhanced safety in NRC programs and processes for regulated entities.

(Example) Describe your experience managing significant, unique, controversial, or complex projects related to licensing, codes and standards, guidance development, policy development for enhanced safety in NRC programs and processes for regulated entities. Discuss examples of where you led significant, complex licensing, codes and standards, regulatory oversight, rulemaking or guidance development projects. For each example, discuss the challenge of the project, context, your specific role and the actions you took, and the results, including the outcome and the impact on the design, licensing, operation, and/or regulation of these types of facilities.

4. Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing with a broad range of audiences on technical and policy issues, challenges, and resolutions.

(Example) Describe specific experience, training, and accomplishments that demonstrate your ability to effectively communicate technical and policy issues, challenges and resolutions. Describe examples of significant oral communications and impactful written products. Describe your ability to prepare written documents such as licensing actions, inspection reports, technical information proposals, research reports, significant briefings, and public communications. Provide at least three specific examples for both written and oral communication with particular focus on coordinating integrated team reviews, risk-informed decision making, leading change, and conducting meetings with diverse stakeholders and management. Be sure to describe the audience, the nature and complexity of the communication, and the outcome of such communication. Be sure to specify with whom you communicated.

5. Demonstrated ability in interpersonal relations and persuasion for the purpose of obtaining acceptance on technically desirable solutions and/or procedures through resolution of differing technical views to reach consensus and to establish effective working relationships with various audiences.

(Example) Describe specific experience that demonstrates your ability in interpersonal relations and persuasion for the purpose of obtaining acceptance on technically desirable solutions and/or procedures through resolution of differing technical views to reach consensus and to establish effective working relationships with various audiences. Discuss examples of where you led or had a lead role in resolving differences to reach consensus in significant, complex situations. Describe your experience in establishing effective working relationships with executives as various levels, supervisors, subordinates, peers, vendors, professional associations, the public, and government and industry officials. Describe challenges you encountered in working relationships and how you utilized your interpersonal skills to resolved them. For each example, discuss the challenge, context, the actions you took, and the results, including the outcome and the impact on the organization.

A description of how you possess the specialized experience as well as how you meet the qualifications desired in an ideal candidate must be addressed in your resume. The NRC encourages applicants to provide job experience details in your resume. Applicants may also use the supplemental vacancy question to provide additional information pertaining to the specialized experience and ideal candidate criteria.


PLEASE BE CLEAR AND CONCISE. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE.

Qualification for All Professional Engineering 0800 Series:

Basic Requirements:

  1. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.

OR

  1. Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:
  2. Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
  1. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
  2. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.
  3. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.)

More detailed information about these alternatives are described in the U.S. Office of Personnel Management Qualification Standards Operating Manual which may be accessed at the following website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule- qualification-standards/0800/materials-engineering-series-0806/n




FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in a conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. For special instructions pertaining to foreign education and a list of organizations that can evaluate foreign education, see the Department of Education website. If you are qualifying on foreign education, you MUST submit proof of creditability of education as evaluated by a credentialing agency. Transcripts must be uploaded with your application to verify education. All documentation must be in English or include an English translation.
Salary147,945.00 - 197,200.00 Annual

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