Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Job Title: Site Strategies Advisor
Career Level: Advisor
Job Specialty: Production Projects
What You'll Do
The Advisor to the Site Strategies Director provides counsel, leadership, and guidance to the Director and management team regarding the full scope of Site Strategies. This includes the strategic direction and operations of the department, encompassing the Integrated Operating Portfolio, Workforce Modernization initiatives, and the advancement of actionable organizational intelligence through Strategic Data Solutions.
The Advisor influences the development and implementation of key initiatives and the organization's strategy. They identify challenges and opportunities across all areas, develop solutions, and ensure alignment with the Y-12 National Security Complex mission. The Advisor also acts as the primary delegate for the Director, assisting with leadership and management responsibilities, fostering continuous improvement, and ensuring all efforts align with and accelerate the Y-12 mission. They help build organizational capability and enhance transparency in operations.
Responsibilities
- The Advisor represents Site Strategies with internal and external stakeholders, including Y-12 executive leadership and external agencies.
- Site Strategies (Overall): Acts as the primary delegate for the Director, assisting with leadership and management responsibilities, providing counsel on the department's strategic direction, fostering continuous improvement, and ensuring all efforts align with and accelerate the Y-12 mission. They help build organizational capability and enhance transparency in operations.
- Strategic Priorities: Guides the development, refinement, and collaborative efforts for the Integrated Operating Portfolio and Integrated Operating Clock, ensuring effective prioritization, resource allocation, and long-term planning in conjunction with site-wide initiatives like the IPPL, FYNSP, and ACB processes. Provides strategic guidance to the Workforce Modernization program in areas such as 2-shift planning, operator onboarding, and that workforce planning and development is adequate for future scope.
- Strategic Data Solutions: Advises on leveraging data science, analytics, and data engineering to deliver actionable organizational intelligence. This includes providing feedback for enhancing data platforms and visualizing information for effective decision-making.
Accountabilities
- To the Site Strategies Director for timely and thorough execution of duties
- To Y-12 Operations management for initiatives that influence operations within mission critical facilities
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 12 years of relevant experience. Typical experience 15+ years.
- OR Master's degree: Minimum 10 years of experience. Typical experience 15+ years.
Preferred Job Requirements
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, with proven ability to interact effectively with all levels of personnel and management within Y-12 and NNSA, including preparing high-level briefings.
- Ability to work independently within a complex, diverse organization, using sound judgment with competing priorities.
- Leadership skills and a proven ability to help achieve objectives across organizational boundaries.
- Proficiency in presentation skills and expert knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Word, PowerPoint, Excel).
- Advanced planning and scheduling skills with experience in project management tools (e.g., MS Project, Primavera P6).
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple, competing priorities, adapting to change in a fast-paced environment.
- Proven ability to translate challenges into solutions.
- Knowledge of the principles of Conduct of Operations as described in DOE O 422.1 is preferred.
- Active holder of Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent certification.
- Supplemental leadership program completion such as Y-12 GOLD or Dale Carnegie.
- Previous experience working in a nuclear or national security environment is desirable.
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.
