Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Job Title: Stewardship Material Disposition Specialist
Career Level From: Staff Member
Career Level To: Staff Member
Job Specialty: Waste Compliance
What You'll Do
Position responsibilities include working with Stewardship Supervisors, Integration Leads, Laborers, and craft personnel to manage Stewardship scope including cleanout activities involving Confined Space, Lockout Tagout, Beryllium Decon, to meet safety, security, quality, and customer performance expectations while ensuring compliance and implementation of all requirements that directly support the Stewardship Program. These requirements include all pertinent laws, regulations, Executive Orders, and DOE Orders and requirements for responding to emergent risks such as pressurized containers and spills, facility cleanups/cleanouts, and unneeded materials and chemicals (UMC) disposition initiatives for Y-12. Responsibilities also include assisting generators with material disposition determinations including Excess, recycle, sanitary, LLW, universal, and mixed waste, characterization and disposal request preparation.
Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To
- Supporting daily operations/activities for the Stewardship laborers and craft personnel to meet federal and state requirements and Y-12 objectives/goals, which includes coordination with all Environmental, Safety, and Health (ESH) disciplines, and customers.
- Manages a multitude of Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), and low-level waste (LLW) regulated areas and containers in a safe, secure, efficient, effective, and compliant process.
- Executes cleanup/cleanout and UMC work in all Y-12 facilities and offsite CNS managed locations to meet safety, security, quality, fire protection, CONOPS, and compliance with all DOE Orders, procedures, plans, regulations, confined space, beryllium, lockout tagout, radiological, and environmental permits, contingency/spill plans, and customer expectations. Coordinates with Engineering, Production, Maintenance, and Construction.
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
- Production Maintenance and Security: High school diploma: Minimum 7 years of relevant experience. Associate degree in related discipline: Minimum 4 years of relevant experience.
- In addition, the applicant must meet the requirements of DOE O 426.2A (i.e., High School diploma; or a DOE O 426.2A alternative).
Preferred Job Requirements
- Typical experience ranging from 7 to 10 years
- A working knowledge of Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Toxic Substances Control Act, Universal Waste, Property, Low Level Waste Management, Department of Transportation, environmental, security, property, safety, and waste management regulatory requirements
- Preferred candidate will have a technical degree and material disposition and/or environmental related experience
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills are highly desired
- Successful candidate must be a self-starter working independently and teaming to solve problems
- Excellent customer service skills and attention to detail a plus
- Computer skills include: e-mail and Microsoft Office Suite
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.
