Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Job Title: Site Outage Scheduling Technical Support
Career Level From: Specialist
Career Level To: Senior Specialist
Job Specialty: Production Projects
What You'll Do
The Site Outage Scheduling Technical Support (SOSTS) provides direct operational and advanced technical coordination for Y-12 Facility and Site Outages. Working directly with System Health, Engineering, Operations, and Production Organizations, this role supports integrated scheduling execution for complex online and offline work activities. The SOSTS is responsible for developing, maintaining, and implementing all phases of the integrated outage scheduling and technical support process. This includes outage preparation activities, managing demand windows for online and offline work execution, technical challenge reviews, evaluating constructability, and executing comprehensive return-to-service testing plans, implementation of PaSTA and SAP processes in outage scheduling.
Responsibilities
- Utilize PaSTA, SAP, and other programs to develop a more streamline approach to outage scheduling.
- Train and develop Integrated schedulers, Outage Leads on the scheduling process and use of PaSTA and SAP.
- Integrated Schedule Development & Management: Developing, baselining, and updating integrated outage schedules to ensure online and offline tasks are properly planned, tracked, and deconflicted.
- Technical Resolution & Engineering Integration: Applying root cause problem solving, and technical expertise to resolve complex execution issues.
- System Health & Reliability Integration: Incorporating system health priorities into the outage scope and schedule to ensure equipment availability, reliability improvements, and capacity requirements are achieved.
- Technical Challenge & Scope Reviews: Leading outage challenge reviews to determine detailed technical requirements and boundaries by evaluating facility design, customer requirements, and high-hazard performance standards.
- Procurement & Material Technical Support: Leading and monitoring procurement engineering design reviews and managing material procurement milestones to ensure components meet technical specifications prior to outage execution windows.
- Configuration Management & Design Controls: Partnering with assigned Engineering Design Authorities to enforce configuration management and strict design controls for outage equipment, modifications, and temporary alterations.
- Risk Assessment & Continuous Improvement: Evaluating outage execution and schedule risks using Industrial Engineering / Lean Six Sigma tools, establishing risk mitigation plans, and managing schedule contingency buffers.
- Field Execution & Work-in-Progress (WIP) Tracking: Managing daily WIP status meetings with multidisciplinary technical staff, craft supervision, and operations to drive field progress during scheduled maintenance blitzes, campaigns, and major outages.
- Testing, Verification & Return-to-Service: Managing and monitoring equipment installation, configuration verification, pre-operational testing, performance testing, and final system return to service.
- Stakeholder Coordination & Alignment: Serving as the key technical conduit between operations and planning groups to balance production deliverables with essential outage demand windows and multi-year sustainment priorities.
- Outage Closeout & Technical Reporting: Formally closing out outage windows by documenting execution completion, analyzing schedule variances, conducting technical lessons-learned reviews, and driving corrective action closure.
Accountabilities
- To the Integrated Planning and Scheduling Senor Manager for integrating outage and scheduling teams.
- To System Health Managers and Production Leadership for clear communication, alignment, and technical coordination of outage activities required to deliver site mission goals, equipment reliability, and long-term facility sustainment.
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 4 years of relevant experience.
- OR Master's degree: Minimum 3 years of relevant experience.
- OR PhD.
- Twelve 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
- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or related technical discipline.
- Experience with facility operations or regulated manufacturing environment is preferred.
- Familarity with the Y-12 Complex and Work Control Process.
- Good oral and written communication skills as individual will be required to interact effectively with all levels of Y-12 personnel and management.
- Advanced computer skills with specific work experience using Microsoft Office Suite applications (Word, Excel), SharePoint.
- Experience with risk management, performance improvements, and process development.
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.
