Idaho National Laboratory is hiring a Facility Disposition Specialist to work in our MFC Radioactive Material & Transportation Division. Our team works a 4x10 schedule located at the RHLLW Disposal Facility on the desert and at MFC with every Friday off. The Radioactive Material & Transportation Division encompasses four Hazard Category 2 Nuclear Facilities and nine Radiological Facilities which are located across the INL site. It also includes a Waste Management Integration group that helps identify, characterize, and coordinate waste management activities within MFC. The Facility Disposition Specialist (FDS) is responsible for ensuring that waste disposal operations are compliant with environmental and waste management requirements documents, including compliance with DOE Order 435.1, “Radioactive Waste Management,” and the facility Operational Disposal Authorization Statement (ODAS). The FDS will be the primary point of contact with waste generators and complete the waste certification process for accepting waste into the Remote-Handled Low-Level Waste (RHLLW) Disposal Facility The FDS will report directly to the RHLLW Nuclear Facility Manager (NFM). Responsibilities Include: - Responsible for the effective implementation, oversight, and continuous assessment of criticality hazards controls, and the overall operational aspects of criticality safety and the Material Balance Area (MBA). - Implement nuclear material inventory controls involving day to day interfacing with operations technicians, systems and design engineering, S&T personnel, facility management and safeguards to solve MBA problems by selecting and approving appropriate techniques. - Maintain tracking databases as assigned. Track and enter container transfers. - Interface with other line managers within the assigned organization. - Complete a variety of operational activities, including but not limited to coordinating shipments inside and outside of the facility, and following work activities from beginning to end. - Act as primary point of contact to ensuring that the Waste Acceptance Criteria (WAC) and waste certification process for acceptance of waste at RHLLW are understood by generator personnel and that the waste is in compliance prior to receipt. - Review and approval of all shipments to be received at RHLLW using the designated software and container specific information to ensure compliance with the Performance Assessment and Composite Analysis per DOE O 435.1 - Interfacing with waste generators and their waste-management-program personnel regarding waste certification program (WCP) criteria and procedures; conducting facility evaluations of waste generator programs; maintaining waste acceptance, certification, and program certification quality documents as required; and initiation of formal recommendations to the RHLLW disposal facility NFM regarding the status of the waste generator program. - Providing interface between the generator’s waste management personnel; waste generators; Packaging and Transportation Organization and generator’s treatment, storage, and disposal facilities. - Provided input for Annual Summary Reports and submittal to the Low-Level Waste Disposal Facility Federal Review Group (LFRG) - This role also includes general staff specialist responsibilities as determined by the Nuclear Facility Manager. Tasks may include assisting with procedure development, training, conduct of operations, safety basis implementation, qualifying multiple operations positions such as Shift Supervisor or Nuclear Facility Manager, leading critiques, or fact findings, etc. - Oversee the certification of generators to ship to the RHLLW Disposal Facility and ensure that the process complies with the requirement of the WAC, using the INL Issues Management program and the Labway system.
