Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Job Title: Gas Analysis Laboratory Supervisor
Career Level: Supervisor
Job Specialty: Analytical Chemistry
What You'll Do
- As a first level supervisor, will provide leadership, technical direction, and oversight to chemists and technicians within the groups in the Analytical Chemistry Organization.
- Assigns and schedules work, monitoring completion.
- Provides direction based on goals, deliverables and sample backlogs.
- Provides status updates to laboratory and project management.
- Ensures proper requirements are completed and documented before task execution (procedure use, training, SQA, etc).
- Conducts daily pre-/post-job briefs for backlog execution.
- Ensures equipment certifications and calibrations are maintained.
- Ensures proper handling and ordering of selected instrumentation, chemicals and consumables.
- Help troubleshoot, approve data, approve time, analyze samples.
- Manage and ensure regular and required activities are accomplished (temperature monitoring, SAA/waste areas monitored, etc).
- Help execute/manage minor procedure revisions and manage procedure periodic reviews.
- Help manage overtime.
- Help manage equipment list for accountability and replacement. Conducts personnel performance appraisals and recommends promotions & adjustments of direct reports.
- Helps in new hire training, mentoring and on-boarding processes.
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 in chemistry or related field (biology, biochemistry): Minimum 5 years of relevant experience.
- OR 13 or more years of education and/or relevant experience may be considered to satisfy educational and years-of-experience requirements for this posting.
- In addition, the applicant must meet the requirements of DOE O 426.2A (i.e., High School diploma and 3 years nuclear experience; or a DOE O 426.2A alternative).
Preferred Job Requirements
- Experience with gas chromatography, gas chromatography/mass spectrometry, or mass spectrometry.
- Experience as a lead chemist or equivalent.
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.
Notes
The minimum education and experience for the lowest career level in the job posting range are listed under Minimum Job Requirements. Successful candidates hired into a higher career level than the minimum in the range must meet the requirements listed in the job leveling charts for the career level into which they are being hired.
If a range of Career Levels is posted, i.e., Senior Associate to Senior Specialist, internal applicants already in one of the Career Levels would come across at their current Career Level. Internal applicants currently in a lower level Career Level would move to the lowest posted Career Level.
Requires a Q clearance; however all qualified candidates will be considered regardless of their current clearance status. The ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy Q clearance is required.
This position may require entry into the Material Access Areas (MAA) and participation in the Human Reliability Program (10 C.F.R. Part 712), which requires successful competition of a DOE counterintelligence evaluation and may include a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination.
This position may be categorized as a “designated position” identified by 10 C.F.R. Part 709, requiring successful completion of a DOE counterintelligence evaluation that may include a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination.
CNS is a drug-free workplace. Candidates accepting a job offer will be required to pass a pre-placement physical, drug screening and background investigation. As an employee, you may be required to receive and maintain a security clearance from the United States Department of Energy in order to meet eligibility requirements for access to sensitive information or matter. U.S. citizenship is a requirement for security clearance applicants. All employees are subject to being randomly selected for drug testing without advance notification.
CNS is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment based on merit and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status or disability.
