Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Job Title: TSCM Senior Specialist
Career Level From: Senior Specialist
Career Level To
Job Specialty: Technical Security
What You'll Do
Serves as a member of a multidisciplinary technical security team providing a broad range of support to a comprehensive Technical Security Program comprised of the Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM) and TEMPEST elements outlined in DOE/NNSA 470.6.
The primary duties focus on conducting TSCM services to detect, deter, and prevent unauthorized technical access to government facilities, equipment, and/or information and possible loss of sensitive or classified information. The candidate must have the appropriate skill set and knowledge to perform Technical Security surveys, inspections, monitoring activities, and prepare detailed reports for each service conducted. In addition, the candidate will assess, evaluate, and take the actions necessary as a technical specialist to maintain/ensure that all TSCM operations and programs are functioning as required in accordance with established policies and procedures.
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.
- OR Master's degree: Minimum 6 years of relevant experience.
- OR PhD: Minimum 3 years of relevant experience.
- OR fifteen or more years of relevant education, training, and/or progressive experience considered to satisfy educational and years-of-experience requirements for this posting
- Graduate from the approved federal Technical Surveillance Countermeasure (TSCM) course.
- Experience performing TSCM surveys, inspections, and monitoring of radio frequency signals.
- Ability to travel occasionally, lift over 50 pounds in a safe and controlled manner, climb and work at heights, work in small enclosed spaces, and occasionally work irregular shifts as related to TSCM assignments.
- Possess an advanced level of knowledge in one or more of the following areas: RF analysis, electronic test and measurement equipment, telephone systems, electrical systems, network security, and acoustics.
Preferred Job Requirements
- Graduate from a formal electronics course with at least an associate's degree.
- Bachelor’s degree in electronics or computer-related discipline with at least 7 years job related experience, or an equivalent combination of related education and experience in electronics with extensive radio frequency (RF) background.
- Demonstrated organizational skills to independently manage competing priorities, balance rival goals of a technical mission with security requirements, and complete multiple projects and assignments in a timely manner.
- Possess effective oral and written communication skills for presenting formal and informal briefings, coordination and liaison activities, and writing reports, letters and other documentation.
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements, concepts, practices, standards, and processes for multiple security disciplines to include counterintelligence.
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.
