Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Job Title: ORETTC Capabilities Manager
Career Level From: Manager
Career Level To: Senior Manager
Job Specialty: Program-General
What You'll Do
Serve as the Capabilities Manager for the Oak Ridge Enhanced Technology and Training Center (ORETTC) reporting to the ORETTC Director. Responsible for educational content and course development at the ORETTC facility. Works with partners for instructional design, production, and delivery of trainings. The Capabilities Manager will also be an analyst for training effectiveness, future engagement, and continuous improvement.
The incumbent will lead a team of talented professionals equipped to design, develop, and implement curriculum for partners/clients. The team may include instructional designers, instructional technologist, subject matter expert/instructors, technical writer, and production personnel. Provide leadership in maintaining safe-working conditions; establish goals and expectations; prioritize and integrate work within the group. Handle personnel matters associated with direct reports. Interview, hire or make hiring decisions; evaluate performance; coach, counsel, reward, and discipline employees, as appropriate. Handle employee complaints and resolves personnel problems. Set standards and monitor performance of staff including development plans. Develop, review, and approve budgets, proposals, cost estimates, schedules, and related documents. Ensure that projects within the team are completed and delivered on time and to the utmost professional standards.
Major Responsibilities Include The Following
- Communicate with SMEs, instructors, and partners to create state-of-the-art content for training.
- Manage cost estimates and project plans for the Capabilities team.
- Conduct educational and instructional needs analysis and gap analysis.
- Guide projects to be completed on time.
- Maintain learning and content management system.
- Work across multiple directorates to identify training gaps and develop plans to fill those gaps.
- Work with internal and external partners to create opportunities in providing solutions for their training needs.
- In coordination with the ORETTC Director, execute the workforce development plan.
- Research and test emerging instructional technologies in coordination with the ORETTC technology team.
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 7 years of relevant experience.
- Fifteen 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
- Project management experience.
- Experience managing projects or programs.
- Experience related to nuclear operations/nuclear nonproliferation.
- Master’s degree in a technical discipline is preferred along with the required number of years of relevant experience.
- Experience related to advanced technologies used in adult learning and content delivery.
- Strong leadership and interpersonal skills and the ability to interact, present and communicate with NNSA and other government customers on a regular basis.
- Specialized technical and programmatic knowledge in nuclear detection and security research and development plus significant track record managing major technical projects/functions is desired.
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.
