Job Description
Mission Support and Test Services, LLC (MSTS) manages and operates the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) for the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Our MISSION is to help ensure the security of the United States and its allies by providing high-hazard experimentation and incident response capabilities through operations, engineering, education, field, and integration services and by acting as environmental stewards to the Site’s Cold War legacy. Our VISION is to be the user site of choice for large-scale, high-hazard, national security experimentation, with premier facilities and capabilities below ground, on the ground, and in the air. (See NNSS.gov for our unique capabilities.) Our 2,750+ professional, craft, and support employees are called upon to innovate, collaborate, and deliver on some of the more difficult nuclear security challenges facing the world today.
- MSTS offers our full-time employees highly competitive salaries and benefits packages including medical, dental, and vision; both a pension and a 401k; paid time off and 96 hours of paid holidays; relocation (if located more than 75 miles from work location); tuition assistance and reimbursement; and more.
- MSTS is a limited liability company consisting of Honeywell International Inc. (Honeywell), Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Jacobs), and HII Nuclear Inc.
Responsibilities
MSTS is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer for a Facility/System Engineering position at our PULSE facility. The PULSE facility is an underground nuclear facility located within the Forward Areas of the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) that supports Subcritical Experiments performed by the National Weapons Laboratories.
Key Responsibilities
- Devise integrated solutions to the most complex technical problems of broad scope. Solutions are comprehensive in technical and business aspects and exhaustive at all levels, including cross-disciplinary.
- Serve as Technical Lead for major projects and startups. Initiates collaboration with partners external to MSTS. Leads collaboration to achieve mission execution.
- Ensure team’s processes and deliverables comply with laws, codes, orders, and MSTS policies and procedures.
- Develop new initiatives for additional scopes of work.
- Serve as an expert advisor to other personnel and management on difficult and critical technical issues.
- Provide guidance to senior management regarding strategic development opportunities using MSTS technologies and capabilities.
- Encourage development of intellectual property and publishing in refereed journals.
- Mentor S/E staff and technical management in methods, processes, and best practices.
- Participate in business development, by defining customer needs, developing proposals and planning projects that will produce results meeting customer needs.
- Work with customer personnel to ensure their needs are clearly defined and works with others to meet customer objectives.
- Responsible for planning and maintaining work systems, procedures, and policies that enable and encourage the optimum performance of its people and other resources.
- Ensure the facility operates in a safe manner by overseeing facility systems and verifying their operation or function against design or performance requirements.
- Ensure Configuration Management of safety class, safety significant, life safety or mission critical systems is maintained by verifying the in-field physical configuration, the system drawings and documented system requirements are all in agreement.
- Manage facility design change control and verify technical adequacy and completeness of the engineering design outputs as it applies to the design basis.
- Develop, maintain, and distribute engineering documents, reports, and correspondence to enable business activity.
- Apply knowledge and ingenuity to implement cutting edge, pioneering solutions in the technical arena, often in unexplored areas of investigation and research.
- May be called upon to represent company position to headquarters or regulatory customers.
- In addition to fulfilling basic ESH&Q obligations:
- Must assure that all aspects of safety have been addressed in design and execution of work.
- Work may affect public health and safety.
- May lead safety planning for high hazard potential projects.
- May be designated Work Planner for other departments.
- May help formulate ESH&Q guidelines
Qualifications
- Minimum Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in an engineering program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) required for Civil, Mechanical and Electrical engineering degrees
- Or, Calculus-based STEM bachelor’s degree in engineering
- Or, for Architects, Certification from the National Council or Architectural Registration Board (NCARB)
- Or Professional Engineer license
- Plus at least 14 years’ relevant experience. Skill building experience must demonstrate either deeper technical specialization or additional cross-disciplinary knowledge; graduate research experience may be recognized.
- Recognized as an authoritative source of information.
- Ability to interpret codes and standards applicable to the position.
- The primary work location will be at the Nevada National Security Site (located 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada).
- Work schedule will be 4/10s Monday through Thursday (subject to change).
- Pre-placement physical examination, which includes a drug screen, is required. MSTS maintains a substance abuse policy that includes random drug testing.
- Must possess a valid driver’s license.
MSTS is required by DOE directive to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants offered employment with MSTS are also subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment. In addition, Applicants for employment must be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship, at least 18 years of age. Reference DOE Order 472.2 , “Personnel Security”. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.
Department of Energy Q Clearance (position will be cleared to this level). Reviews and tests for the absence of any illegal drug as defined in 10 CFR Part 707.4 , “Workplace Substance Abuse Programs at DOE Sites,” will be conducted. Applicant selected will be subject to a Federal background investigation, required to participate in subsequent reinvestigations, and must meet the eligibility requirements for access to classified matter. Successful completion of a counterintelligence evaluation, which may include a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination, may also be required. Reference 10 CFR Part 709 , “Counterintelligence Evaluation Program.”
MSTS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. MSTS is a background screening, drug-free workplace.
Hourly range for this position is $144,622.40 - $224,161.60.
Starting salary is determined based on the position market value, the individual candidate education and experience and internal equity.
