Job Description
Savannah River National Laboratory is seeking forward-thinking professionals interested in a technical career as Operations & Maintenance Director. As a senior level management position, the Director will provide management and leadership of facility operations and maintenance within the Operations & Facilities Directorate including the development, coordination, implementation, and oversight of facility programs and services. Act on behalf of the Operations & Facilities Director when designated. Support programmatic issues for the facilities including Safety, CONOPS, Training, Procedures, Budget, Issue Management, Facility Operations Safety Committee (FOSC), Nuclear Facility Managements and Facilities Readiness. Provide overall direction and oversight of Facility Operations & Maintenance to ensure strategies and schedules accomplish facility contract milestones while maintaining compliance with the safety envelope, laws and regulations and DOE Orders. Providing high quality and agile customer service to support and enable world-class research and development.
Responsibilities
Major Responsibilities
Lead and implement the execution of all missions, programs, and initiatives with the facilities. Maintain responsibility for the overall safety and safe, efficient, and effective operation of facility processes and services. Interface with senior R&D and support managers including Operations, Training, Radiological Controls, Quality Assurance, Engineering, and Maintenance who are accountable to this position for the performance of their respective organizations. As the Director of Operations and Maintenance, the selected candidate will take on the role as the nuclear facility manager as one of the key areas of responsibility.
Other Responsibilities
- Ensure facility compliance with Federal and State laws and permits, DOE orders and facility authorization agreements.
- Fulfill role as Chairperson of Facility Operations Safety Committee (FOSC).
- Establish performance standards and ensure adherence to the standards in the facilities.
- Coordinate communications with support organizations to effectively support the facilities' missions with strong collaboration and customer service mentality.
- Lead investigations and assessments to ensure activities are safely and correctly conducted
- Provide final decision authority for classification and response to abnormal operating events
- Ensure investigations are performed following abnormal events to identify and correct the cause of the events.
- Lead and manage project and mission integration for complex mission scope and improvement projects.
- Balance competing priorities within budget constraints to support modernization of facilities and infrastructure.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Technical Bachelor's degree in applicable science or engineering discipline with 15 Years of Nuclear Operations OR a combination of 20 years education and relevant experience which includes supervisory and/or technical experience in nuclear facility operations, testing, and maintenance will also be acceptable.
- Ability to establish and communicate a strategic vision for successful nuclear/ radiological facility and non-nuclear facility operations mission accomplishments and implementation of continuous improvements.
- Safe and efficient execution of day-to-day activities.
- Implementation of safety basis requirements and performance of activities within their approved Authorization Agreement.
- Implementation of facility systems, components, operations practices, SRNL policies and procedures.
- Providing leadership, communication, and coordination for all support organizations addressing nuclear and non-nuclear facility issues.
- Line management responsibilities for all human capital activities for assigned facilities.
- Work package manager for assigned budgets.
- For ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q security clearance, US Citizenship is Legally Required
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with managing construction activities supporting nuclear and non-nuclear facilities and operations.
- Progressive senior leadership experience within a commercial, government, or military operations environment
- Direct experience with matrix management and influencing through indirect leadership in a highly complex, matrixed, cross-functional organization
- Active Security Clearance
About Us
"We put science to work!"
Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) is a multi-program laboratory applying state of the art science and practical, high-value, cost-effective solutions to complex technical problems to protect the nation. Located at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Savannah River Site (SRS) in Aiken SC, the laboratory develops and deploys innovative technologies to address some of the nation’s environmental, energy, and national security challenges.
Battelle Savannah River Alliance (BSRA) is constantly assessing trends to provide the best possible benefits to our workforce. We also negotiate cost effective premiums that will meet the needs of our evolving workforce.
Some of the *Benefits offered to employees include:
- Benefits vary based upon employment status
- Highly competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision options including HSA options with company provided seed
- Short- & Long-Term Disability (company paid)
- Life Insurance Non-Contributary 1X salary (company paid)
- AD&D Non-contributary 1x salary (company paid)
- Savings & Investment plan:
- Qualified Non-Elective Company Contribution of 5% each pay period with immediate vesting
- Company match 50 cents/dollar up to 8% (3 yrs. vesting in company match)
- Contributory Life Insurance up to 5x Salary with $1M Cap
- Contributory AD&D (employee, spouse and children)
- Paid Time Off
- Employee Assistance Plan
- SRNL offers a competitive relocation package to ease the transition process. Domestic and international relocation assistance is available for certain positions.
For more information about our benefits, working here, and living here, visit the
“About” tab at www.srnl.doe.gov .
BSRA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. BSRA is also committed to making our workplace accessible to individuals with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations, upon request, for individuals to participate in the application and hiring process. Please email us at SRNLRecruiting@srnl.doe.gov with any questions regarding the hiring process or to request an accommodation.
About The Team
The Operations & Facilities (O&F) Division of SRNL provides a team focused infrastructure upgrades for nuclear and industrial facilities supporting SRNL. O&F Engineering is looking for people who can use their talents and experience to help build state of the art business programs as SRNL continues to use it diverse creative staff to deliver the highest quality programs to its customer.
