Idaho National Laboratory is hiring a Material Control and Accountability Professional to work in our Safeguards department. Our team works a 4x10 schedule located out of our Materials and Fuels Complex (MFC) with every Friday off. You will represent the Safeguards department in implementing DOE Orders and directives related to Nuclear Material Control and Accountability (NMC&A). You will report directly to the manager of the Safeguards department. Responsibilities Include: - Interpret and apply program requirements. Manage Safeguards requirements applicable to the shipments of nuclear material entering or leaving INL facilities. - Coordinate, and direct nuclear material physical inventories. Observe nuclear material transfers and associated activities within Material Balance Areas. Reconcile and report accounting activities to the national accounting database. Provide internal and external oversight for nuclear material shipments and receipts. Analyze and assess the accuracy of the INL nuclear material inventory with the National Nuclear Material Management and Safeguards System (NMMSS), a national inventory of nuclear materials. - Contribute to the department documentation program, including procedure reviews and updates. - Provide Facility Operations management with an annual assessment of the performance of their Material Balance Area Custodians. - Provide oversight and complex solutions for unique problems for Material Balance Areas in following areas – waste determinations, shipments, receipts, material adjustments, reconciliations of nuclear material inventories, etc. - Provide recommendations to and advise Operations management and Safeguards management on issues that may affect nuclear materials receipts or shipments. Facilitate the preparation and execution of shipper/receiver agreements at the site. - Evaluate and authorize the shipments and receipts of nuclear materials in LANMAS and through collaborations with other DOE sites, universities, or other countries. Provide oversight and approval of all Internal Nuclear Material Transfers at INL. Verify that material will not exceed Material Balance Area values or cause Material Balance Area to roll-up to higher category level. - Provide oversight to each Material Balance Area Custodian on the proper access controls, and material surveillance requirements for each Material Balance Area based on nuclear category level. Investigate discrepancies in Material Balance Areas. Determine and pursue required actions, write reports, create corrective actions (CAs), and provide lessons learned to ensure performance is increased. Assess accuracy and methodology of requests for nuclear material adjustments of special nuclear material items and evaluate those requests against DOE requirements for nuclear material control and accountability processes. Review, approve, and implement facility documents associated with MC&A. - Provide oversight of Material Balance Areas to include training all Material Balance Area Custodians, (in all INL organizations), as well as guiding the establishment of Material Balance Areas and appointing/releasing all Material Balance Area Custodians. Define the criteria used to assess pass/fail criteria for the Material Balance Area Custodians across INL. Assess the implementation of corrective actions related to previous opportunities for improvement or discrepancies discovered over the previous year. Complete the Basic Instructor Training (BIT) and train other Safeguards and INL Nuclear Operations personnel. - Analyze and assess the accuracy of the INL Nuclear Material inventory with the National Nuclear Material Management and Safeguards System (NMMSS), a national inventory of nuclear materials. - Manage the Tamper Indicating Device (TID) program, including acquisition and disposition and providing training to all individuals who act as witnesses for application and removal. This includes managing the purchasing and budgeting of TIDs to ensure the specifications required by DOE are met and implemented. - The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
