Project Director NRG PALLAS Programma Reactor

Bedrijfsomschrijving

NRG PALLAS is a leading Dutch nuclear technology organization operating from the Energy & Health Campus in Petten. The organization plays a central role in medical isotope production, nuclear research, reactor operations, radiochemical innovation, and the development of future nuclear capabilities in the Netherlands and Europe. The PALLAS reactor programme will replace the historic High Flux Reactor and secure the continuity of medical isotope supply for decades to come, while enabling future innovation in radioligand therapies, nuclear medicine, and nuclear technologies.

Project Director NRG PALLAS Programma Reactor

The NRG PALLAS Programma reactor is one of Europe’s most strategically important nuclear infrastructure project. Located at the Energy & Health Campus in Petten. The NRG PALLAS reactor will secure a long-term production of medical isotopes used daily in the diagnosis and treatment of hundreds of thousands of patients worldwide. While simultaneously strengthening the Dutch and European nuclear capability, innovation, and strategic autonomy. 

The NRG PALLAS Programma is entering the most critical phase of the project: The transition from design and licensing into integrated industrial execution, construction, commissioning, and operational readiness. The organization therefore needs an exceptional Project Director with proven experience delivering complex industrial facilities in highly regulated environments. A leader who combines operational intensity with strategic maturity: someone capable of aligning contractors, regulators and project teams around one integrated execution roadmap — while safeguarding public value, nuclear quality, schedule discipline and delivery certainty.

As a member of the Executive Committee (ExCo), this Project Director is co-responsible for the realization of the organization mission, vision, and strategy. As such contributes to overall corporate governance and decision-making. The role brings full accountability for integrated programme delivery into the ExCo deliberations, ensuring alignment across strategy, execution, risk, financial performance. Plus stakeholder commitments, while acting as a primary escalation and decision interface between project governance and executive leadership.

Mission

The Project Director will lead the integrated execution of the NRG PALLAS Programma on behalf of NRG PALLAS. This includes responsibility for project integration across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, contractor governance, schedule ownership, risk management, and operational readiness. Therefor this project requires a decisive execution leader capable of driving delivery in a multi-contractor, nuclear-regulated environment with high public visibility and strategic importance.

This role will help shape a new generation of nuclear infrastructure in Europe and contributing directly to:

• security of medical isotope supply for global healthcare; 
• Dutch and European strategic nuclear capability; 
• safe and reliable commissioning of a first-of-a-kind national infrastructure project; 
• the long-term strengthening of the Energy & Health Campus in Petten.

Key Responsibilities

Integrated Project Leadership:

• leading the transition from development-phase governance toward execution-phase delivery discipline; 
• establish and drive one integrated project execution model across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover; 
• create a strong execution culture focused on ownership, transparency, escalation, and delivery; 
• act as single-point accountability for integrated project performance. 

Schedule, Cost & Delivery Control:

• establish NRG PALLAS ownership of the Integrated Project Schedule (IPS), including critical path and float management; 
• drive data-based project steering and transparent reporting; 
• ensure commissioning-driven execution planning and system-based completion logic.

Contractor & Commercial Leadership:

• lead the strategic integrated relationship with major international contractors and engineering partners; 
• create strong commercial discipline and performance accountability across contractors; 
• align incentives, delivery objectives, and governance structures; 
• balance collaboration with contractual sharpness and execution control. 

Nuclear & Regulatory Delivery:

• ensure execution readiness aligns with nuclear quality, traceability, licensing, and commissioning requirements; 
• maintain strong interfaces with regulators, independent reviewers, and nuclear assurance functions; 
• is a role model and safeguards nuclear safety culture throughout execution and commissioning;
• ensures compliance with all relevant policies, rules and regulations and licenses at the Project level.

Governance & Positioning:

• represents the NRG PALLAS project within ExCo discussions and decision-making;
• ensures transparent reporting on project performance, risks, and delivery outlook;
• aligns project execution with overarching corporate strategy and governance frameworks.

Organizational Leadership:

• build and lead a high-performing project management team; 
• strengthen “intelligent customer” capability within the NRG PALLAS organization; 
• drive integration between project delivery and future operations; 
• support organizational simplification, role clarity, and site-based collaboration in Petten. 

Stakeholder Management:

• maintain trusted relationships with government stakeholders, contractors, executive committee, supervisory board and regulators;
• provide transparent, fact-based communication under pressure.

Renumeration

Given the social nature and impact of the NRG PALLAS Programma, the salary is aligned with this.