What You'll Do
The position is a senior level position where the incumbent is fully responsible for providing strategic technical leadership and expertise for the CNS Readiness Assurance Program (RAP), with a focus on the startup of Weapon Facilities and Weapon Related Processes. This program provides technical direction for the startup and restart of complex nuclear and high-hazard non-nuclear Facilities, Activities, and Operations, as well as performing detailed technical reviews of CNS Nuclear Safety Analysis Reports, Technical Safety Requirements, Process Hazard Analysis, and supporting documentation.
The role of the Readiness Leader (RL) is to provide self-directed, multi-disciplinary technical leadership to ensure that startups and restarts of a wide range of specialized operational systems are accomplished meeting operational readiness expectations. In accomplishing this role, the RL will be responsible to:
- Serve as the technical expert for operational readiness, ensuring that physical and administrative boundaries are defined, and review level determinations are completed.
- Resolve technical problems and make decisions and recommendations to the project team and senior management.
- Ensure that integrated planning across multiple organizations and individuals is accomplished to identify the set of tasks needed to attain operational readiness.
- Ensure that tasks required for attaining operational readiness are fully accomplished with high quality products that can withstand the scrutiny of contractually required operational readiness verification reviews.
- Serve as the team leader or team member of review teams that perform readiness reviews to verify operational readiness or Safety Basis Implementation Verification Reviews (IVRs), and verify that the requirements, assumptions, and controls from safety basis documents (Documented Safety Analysis (DSA) and Technical Safety Requirements (TSR) are correctly captured in the documents and are fully implemented.
- Provide expert based training on the CNS Readiness Assurance Program to a variety of individuals, including Facility, Operations, Program, and Project Managers, and mentor less experienced Readiness Assurance staff.
The RL is accountable to the:
- Project or Program Manager and Vice President (VP), Production and Operations, for startups being operationally ready prior to the conduct of a readiness review.
- Production, Facility, Operations, and/or Mission Engineering Manager for completing IVRs for Safety Basis changes subject to the IVR process.
- VP, Production and Operations, or delegate for completing readiness reviews.
The RL is authorized to:
- Represent the Readiness Assurance Program in meetings.
- Establish expectations with appropriate Managers responsible for meeting defined readiness performance criteria.
- Provide technical direction to other Readiness Assurance staff.
What You Can Expect
- Meaningful work and unique opportunities to support missions vital to national and global security
- Top-notch, dedicated colleagues
- Generous pay and benefits with a stable organization
- Career advancement and professional development programs
- Work-life balance fostered through flexible work options and wellness initiatives
Minimum Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree + 12 years of relevant experience. (Typical experience 15+ years.) OR
- Master’s degree + 10 years of experience. (Typical experience 15+ years.) OR
- PhD + 6 years of experience.
Preferred Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in engineering or a physical science discipline + 15 years of nuclear experience in either a technical or operational role, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and work experience (e.g., Non-technical Bachelor’s degree + 20 years relevant experience, Master’s degree + 12 years relevant experience, or Doctorate degree + 10 years relevant experience).
- Combination of technical and operational readiness experience and skills. The successful candidate will have a minimum of five years of combined experience in conducting operational readiness confirmation reviews (Readiness Reviews, Implementation Verification Reviews, and Operational Readiness Reviews) and/or in providing leadership in the attainment and validation of operational readiness for nuclear or high-hazard startup or restarts (preferably within the DOE or commercial nuclear power industry).
- Experience in doing both the reviews and validation of the attainment of operational readiness is highly desirable and may be given greater credit over more general and less relevant experience.
- Familiarity with the requirements of 10 CFR 830, Nuclear Safety Management, and experience with implementing requirements and controls in approved DOE Documented Safety Analysis (DSA) and Technical Safety Requirements (TSR) documents is highly desired.
- Strong technical, organizational, communication, and team building skills, along with demonstrated supervisory and leadership skills.
- Project Management experience.
Why Y-12?
You get #morethanajob. We encourage employees to achieve a healthy personal balance among home, work and the community. One of the ways we embrace work-life balance is by offering flexible work arrangements that provide alternatives to the traditional workweek, while still meeting business needs. Top talent and personal commitment mean more to our success than any other factors, so we reward our people with the kinds of benefits that make a positive difference in the quality of their lives. Benefits such as: medical plan, prescription drug plan, vision plan, dental plan, employer matched 401(k) savings plan, disability coverage, education reimbursement and many more. Want to stay healthy and fit but hate the cost of a gym membership? Take advantage of one of our onsite workout facilities and eat healthy in our onsite cafeterias. Much more than a workplace, at Y-12, you can build a career that lasts a lifetime.
