Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Job Title: Transportation Safety Professional
Career Level From: Senior Associate
Career Level To: Specialist
Job Specialty: ES&H General
What You'll Do
A Transportation Safety Professional is needed to systematically improve traffic safety and compliance through inspection, analysis, application, verification and enforcement. The Y-12 National Security Complex has 6 signalized intersections and traffic volume similar to an urban city center with pedestrian, personal, government and commercial motor vehicle interaction. The ES&H Transportation Safety department is the owner of the Y-12 Motor Vehicle Safety program consisting of 4 directives: work zone planning, infrastructure improvements, enforcement and investigation, and commercial motor carrier compliance. At Y-12, it is a life critical work requirement to eliminate or control vehicle, equipment and personnel interface.
The Transportation Safety Professional will lead change control by stakeholder coordination and hazard mitigation t hrough the established Automated Road Closure Outage Request system and chart approved temporary road closures through the YAMS Real-Time Mapping System. They typically perform weekly inspections enforcing driver behavior, verifying temporary traffic control changes, assess effectiveness of existing traffic calming techniques or facilitate new traffic calming techniques. They may be needed to provide planning and compliance support for our commercial motor vehicle business pertaining to planning, inspection and application of overdimensional shipment requirements. The Transportation Safety Professional will verify pedestrian safety and compliant parking including ADA.
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 2 years of relevant experience.
- OR Master's degree: Minimum 1 year of relevant experience.
- OR Ten 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
- 7 years or more experience in a variety of roles providing traffic operations safety and compliance support, design and technical knowledge of requirements and regulations associated with the Federal Highway Administration, United States and Tennessee Department of Transportation, or a related municipality service.
- Attention to detail and assertive in requiring compliance to such regulations.
- Communicates clearly and timely without intimidation or hostility any findings required for improvement.
- Inspection, design or enforcement experience of Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Device requirements and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations.
- Experience entering inspection reports and tracking and resolving deficiencies.
- A significant track record of successfully performing technical functions related to transportation compliance verification.
- IMSA Certified or Certified Traffic Operations Engineer is preferred.
- Specialized knowledge of the DOE / NNSA Integrated Safety Management System, CFR 851, OSHA, FMCSA and FHA requirements.
- Certifications related to Traffic Operations and Commercial Motor Vehicle Compliance including signal timing, AASHTO, MUTCD, CVSA or TTAP course work.
- Previous leadership role supporting municipality traffic operations including oversize shipments.
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.
