Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Job Title: Operations Manager
Career Level: Senior Manager
Job Specialty: Nuclear/Explosives Facilities Management
What You'll Do
The Operations Manager is responsible for ensuring operations are in compliance with all applicable requirements for a defined set of Y-12 capabilities and associated infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Implementing Y-12 policies, programs, and procedures that have been established to monitor and control equipment and personnel activities in a manner that ensures safe and compliant operations.
- Serving as the primary interface on issues related to facility safety, criticality safety, radiological control, security, equipment operating parameters, emergency preparedness, and other safety management programs within their assigned area.
- Authorizing work activities and integrated work schedules within their facility through approval of the Plan of the Day and Plan of the Week.
- Reviewing completed surveillances, round sheets and other monitoring results to ensure facility and equipment performance is within expected operating limits.
- Maintaining configuration management and change within the facility as the chairperson of the OSB, final approval authority on change packages, and other configuration management vehicles.
- Initiates appropriate command and control actions when operations are detected or reported to be abnormal.
- Setting performance expectations and monitors performance for all employees assigned to their staff.
Accountabilities
- To the Production Director for the establishment, maintenance, and implementation of a defined safety operating envelope.
- To the FOM Director for the implementation of a work authorization process that is within standards set by the compliance function for production operations.
- To the FOM and facility staff for resolution of conflicting priorities, ensuring a healthy respect for Conduct of Operations principles, and interpreting policies or procedures when questions arise.
Authorities
- Authorized to resolve cost, schedule, or resource conflicts regarding compliance activities within their span of control.
- Authorized to approve the Plan of the Day and Plan of the Week documents which are the basis for work authorization within production facilities.
- Authorized to enter limiting conditions of operations, declare emergency response actions, report occurrences, etc. when required to maintain compliance with policies and procedures governing Y-12 operations.
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 10 years of relevant experience. Minimum 5 years relevant supervisory/management experience.
- In addition, the applicant must meet the requirements of DOE O 426.2A (i.e., Baccalaureate in engineering or related scientific major and 4 years nuclear experience; or a DOE O 426.2A alternative).
- Eighteen (18) 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
- At least 6 years of relevant work experience should be in operations or technical experience within a production or nuclear/regulated manufacturing or operations environment.
- Leadership experience in complex technical environments and abnormal condition response experience.
- Knowledge and understanding of the Documented Safety Analysis process, Conduct of Operations, Integrated Safety management, Security Programs, and other safety management programs is required.
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.
