Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Job Title: Site Outage Manager
Career Level: Manager
Job Specialty: Nuclear/High Hazard Operations
What You'll Do
The Site Outage Program Manager provides the integrated leadership, direction, and management of the creation and implementation for the Y-12 outage program in order to improve production facility/equipment sustainability and site infrastructure modernization to ensure system availability for mission success.
Responsibilities
- Managing outage staff and matrix personnel to achieve programmatic mission, including executing process and system maintenance blitzes, campaigns, and outages.
- Developing site command media for the Y-12 Outage Management Program and implementing program tenants and requirements for Production Facilities, Infrastructure, Utilities, IT, Quality, and Projects.
- Requirements to include methodology and format for planned outages and offline work, prioritization, and determination criteria for online/offline determinations, response requirements for unplanned outages, and plans for incorporation of preventative and corrective maintenance into outage work windows.
- Ensuring consistency throughout the production facilities and the Y-12 site by capturing and analyzing data and establishing program metrics to assure outage program goals and associated risks are being appropriately managed.
- Providing input to stakeholders to ensure coordination of online/offline priorities, incorporation of planning and scheduling into multi-year priorities, and general consideration of the outage program.
- Issuing periodic updates on program accomplishments and vision to maintain a technical record of program performance and to define sustainment projects that require planning that is beyond current fiscal year.
- Working with Production Directors, System Health Managers, Program Managers, Production Planning and controls staff, Infrastructure Management, and Project Managers to ensure short range and long range prioritized strategies for outage management in production facilities and across the Y-12 site are defined and executed on a schedule that supports continued safe operations.
Accountabilities
- To the Site Scheduling Sr. Manager, for the implementation of the site outage program that defines specific outage policies and work windows necessary to sustain capability equipment and supporting site upgrades and modernization.
- To the System Health Managers, Plant Health Program, Mission Engineering, and Mission Support organizations for the integration, communication, and coordination of outage activities required to accomplish long-term sustainment initiatives.
Authorities
- Authorized to determine the priority and schedule for Y-12 site outages with interactions with Program Managers, Production Capability Areas, Mission Engineering, and Project support personnel.
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: Minimum 7 years of relevant experience.
- 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).
- Fifteen or more years of education and/or relevant experience may be considered to satisfy educational and years-of-experience requirements for this posting.
Preferred Job Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or related technical discipline.
- Experience with facility operations or regulated manufacturing environment is preferred.
- Familarity with the Y-12 Complex and Work Control Process.
- Good oral and written communication skills as individual will be required to interact effectively with all levels of Y-12 personnel and management.
- Advanced computer skills with specific work experience using Microsoft Office Suite applications (Word, Excel), SharePoint.
- Experience with risk management, performance improvements, and process development.
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.
Position may require entry into Materials Access Areas (MAA) and participation in the Human Reliability Program (HRP). If HRP is required, candidate must complete a counterintelligence-scope polygraph, pursuant to 10CFR 709. Medical requirements may apply.
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.
