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
Nuclear Facility Worker - This position is subject to the requirements of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Order 426.2. Education and experience requirements will be screened.
We are seeking an Operations Manager (OM) for the Principal Underground Laboratory for Subcritical Experimentation (PULSE) facility. The OM reports to the PULSE Facility Manager and is responsible for managing operations within the facility. This position supports the facility’s mission of performing subcritical experiments as part of the Stockpile Stewardship Program.
Key Responsibilities
- Managing Shift Operations Managers, Operations Superintendent(s), and Nuclear Facility Operations Specialists designated to support the OM for operator rounds, facility monitoring and control, and operations personnel (craft or other).
- Interfacing with the facility Work Management Center and Work Control Coordinator.
- Maintaining overall responsibility for coordinating and deconflicting facility operations, maintenance, and construction activities within the facility and for those activities external to the facility that may impact the facility. The OM deconflicts and coordinates with experiment, maintenance, and construction activities that are on-going at or impact PULSE.
- Providing oversight and direction for safe operations and implementation of conduct of operations processes within the facility.
- Overseeing the facility operations status, including reporting concerns to the Facility Manager, and maintaining the facility operations logbook in conjunction with direct reports.
- Working with facility maintenance personnel to ensure facility structures, systems, and components (SSC) are maintained as required and outages are coordinated and communicated properly.
- Ensuring that facility SSC are in a condition to support the operations for which they are intended.
- Ensuring compliance with operational limits (i.e., TSR, LCOs) established with the approved Safety Basis.
- Ensuring the facility is ready to support nuclear and subcritical experiment operations.
- Helps meet configuration management and compliance requirements.
- Acting as an Alternate Facility Manager.
- Acting as a Local Emergency Director.
- Act as the Cost Account Manager for the facility operations budget and ensuring operations personnel work within the operations budget.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent training and experience, plus a minimum of 11 years of related and progressively responsible experience.
- Four years of nuclear experience is required per DOE O 426.2.
- Must have a working knowledge of DOE Orders: DOE O 412.1A, DOE O 425.1D, DOE O 433.1B, DOE O 426.2, DOE O 422.1, DOE O 420.1C, PD-P200.002, “NNSS Underground Facility Safety and Health Program Description,” and 10 CFR 851, “Worker Safety & Health Program.”
- Ability to work in an underground environment (tunnel/mining).
- Demonstrated leadership qualities with emphasis on safety, continuous improvement, and team building.
- Experience leading teams, performing workload distribution, and execution of the work.
- Skilled in working and communicating effectively with managers of other project functional groups, primarily Engineering, Construction, Maintenance, and Project Management, and with diverse customers.
- Proficient in oral and written communication.
- Skill and ability to understand complex data, terminology, procedures, laws and regulations.
- Ability to create and maintain the highest levels of confidentiality when dealing with proprietary information and sensitive situations.
- Computer skills and knowledge of software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, SharePoint, etc.).
- Ability to work outside in cold temperatures during the winter and extreme heat in the summer.
- The work location is in the forward area of the NNSS, approximately 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas.
- Schedule is (4) 10-hour shifts, Monday-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 have a current 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.
Annual salary range for this position is:
$124,238.40 - $198,785.60.
Starting salary is determined based on the position market value, the individual candidate education and experience and internal equity.
