Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Job Title: Sr. Technical Advisor - Commercial Projects
Career Level From: Advisor
Career Level To
Organization: Projects Engineering (50996315)
Job Specialty: Core Engineering
What You'll Do
As a Senior Technical Advisor, you will lead teams of dedicated professionals passionate about delivering exceptional project outcomes and advancing our organization's mission.
In this role, you will drive culture change, champion commercial approach implementations across multiple organizations and subcontractors, and serve as a vital Subject Matter Expert (SME) from project planning through completion.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead Commercial Integration: Foster culture change to successfully implement commercial approaches across multiple internal organizations and subcontractors, spanning project planning through execution.
- Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME): Provide deep commercial project and organizational expertise to guide cross-organizational design and construction teams.
- Drive Continuous Learning: Facilitate development sessions to educate internal teams on commercially available technologies and design innovations.
- Partner with Supply Chain: Identify opportunities to boost subcontractor interest and project success, assist with bidder qualification reviews, and facilitate value-negotiated contracts.
- Optimize Data & Integration: Minimize data gaps to improve organizational integration and streamline project execution.
- Facilitate Early Planning: Lead "programming" workshops between funding programs and end-user SMEs to clearly define project scope, schedule, and design requirements.
- Streamline Communications: Establish and maintain communication channels to improve critical data flow between organizations, enabling timely and consistent decision-making.
- Develop Dashboard Metrics: Help build and maintain inter-organizational dashboards to increase visibility on project metrics (active priorities, mission alignment, project health) and train teams to mitigate risks early.
Expected Outcomes
- Enhanced Execution: Significantly increase the organization's ability to successfully deliver and complete funded projects.
- Commercial Success: Successfully apply and adapt commercial project approaches to consistently improve project completion statistics.
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 an architectural or engineering/science discipline from an Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) accredited program in the United States or designated equivalents from Canada or Mexico, the Washington Accord, or the list of substantially equivalent as documented by ABET
- A minimum of 12 years of relevant commercial architectural or engineering experience.
Preferred Job Requirements
- A Professional Engineering {PE) License or licensed architect
- Knowledge of and experience in commercial engineering disciplines.
- Knowledgeable of Y-12 business and operations support, resources, practices, processes, and policies needed to solve problems and accomplish work
- Skills in effective planning, writing, organization, communication, schedule compliance, personnel management and design management
- Computer-literate and have good working knowledge of software tools that support engineering design activities including computer-aided design
- Extensive technical expertise and full knowledge of related engineering systems, engineering calculations, applications of engineering and construction methods and materials, and engineering application of computers
- Knowledge of industry and regulatory standards and design criteria pertinent to various engineering disciplines
- Ability to apply technical skills of engineering to the design of facilities and/or appurtenances to facilities
- Ability to prepare, read, and/or interpret complex engineering drawings
- Ability to conduct formal presentations to plant personnel and other interested parties
- Ability to review projects for technical accuracy
- Ability to present information clearly and effectively through the oral and written word
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 without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, genetic information, disability or veteran status.
