Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Job Title: CTR - Prime Contracts Administrator 18671
Career Level From: Senior Specialist
Career Level To
Job Specialty: Contracts General
What You'll Do
Manages and administers the CNS, LLC prime contract at the Y-12 National Security Complex:
- Contractual interface with the customer (the Department of Energy (DOE)/National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Y-12 Field Office (YFO) Contracting Officers)
- General Contract Administration
- Using FAR principles, provides allowable cost guidance and ensures compliance with contract and other regulations
- Researches regulations, rule-making, and policies and provides determinations based on research
- Drafts internal and external correspondence
- Submits formal requests to customer for equitable adjustments and coordinates resolution
- Ensures quality contract deliverables are submitted on time
- Develops metrics related to cost, scope, and schedule
- Leads Prime Contract Modification Process
- Initiates/coordinates contract modification assessments and tracks relevant executive management review and approval
- Maintains the official Conformed Prime Contract
- Monitors compliance with contract obligations
- Tracks and manages open issues related to the Prime Contract
- Assists in developing and implementing contract management tools aimed at improving the process
- Maintains Other Types of Agreements for the Y-12 National Security Complex
- Verifies Memorandum of Understanding documents and other types of agreements are developed in compliance with company policy
- Participates in Directives Program oversight
- Monitor new/revised laws, rules, regulations, directives, standards
- Identify and communicate changes to the appropriate Primary Technical Manager (PTM) for impact assessment where potential impacts to the Prime Contract are relevant
- Reviews Impact Assessments (IA) and Implementation Plans (IP), for completeness and accuracy which includes evaluation of cost, performance, and/or schedule impact to the contract
- Reviews, coordinates, comments, and/or finalizes internal and external contractual correspondence
- Assists managers at all levels in identifying their specific areas of responsibility within the contract
- Participates in relevant Contract Management Processes:
- Controlled Business Expenses (CBE)
- Request for Offsite Services (ROS)
- Strategic Partnership Project (SPP)
- Memorandum Purchase Orders (MPO)/Inter-contractor Purchase (ICP)/Inter-Entity Work Orders (IEWO)
- Memorandum of Agreement (MOA)/Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
- Work Authorizations
- Provides training related to Prime Contract Management - Contracting Authority and Changes
- Develops and gives presentations, training sessions; drafts correspondence and prepares reports
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 Business Administration or a related field and a minimum 9 years of relevant experience.
- Master's degree in Business Administration or a related field and a minimum 7 years of relevant experience.
- Seventeen or more years of relevant education, training, and/or progressive experience may be considered to satisfy educational and years-of-experience requirements for this posting.
Preferred Job Requirements - Capability to interface with senior level managers internally and externally to resolve issues related to the Prime Contract
- Exceptional formal and informal written communication skills for corresponding with DOE/NNSA customer and executive leadership
- Manage/track status of work in progress to ensure due dates are met on time and all deliverables, approvals, and record updates are received and accounted as appropriate
- Requires the ability to multi-task and prioritize in a high throughput office setting while working with numerous groups and functional managers on various topics at any given time
- Excellent interpersonal skills to interface with project team and functional management
- Demonstrated analytical, organizational, oral, and written communication skills
- National Contract Management Association (NCMA) certification (e.g. CFCM, CPCM) is desired
- Previous relevant contract work experience is desired
- Experience with capital asset construction projects is desired
- Working knowledge of Federal Acquisition Regulation, DEAR, and applicable Agency Supplements as it relates to interpretation of regulations impacting the Prime Contract
- Thorough understanding of federal government contracts and the flow-down of applicable clauses and requirements
- Understanding of government Cost Accounting Standards and how to apply that understanding to contract cost allowability determinations
- Knowledge of policies and contracting philosophy and ability to interpret contract language
- Experience or education in contract solicitation, proposal review, contract administration, negotiation of change orders, effective correspondence, and planning and scheduling
- Change Management:
- Ability to track and identify changes in Word or Adobe Acrobat to provide Customer/SMEs with revisions to original documents
- Familiarity processing changes impacting cost that must be formally incorporated into the annual baseline through the change management process
- Track and capture changes impacting schedule, experience in documenting and incorporating the schedule baseline to ensure that associated impacts are captured
- Proficient in common Microsoft Office and Adobe software applications
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.
