DAF Deputy System Engineering Manager I

About the role

Mission Support and Test Services, LLC (MSTS) manages and operates the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) for the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The role involves managing DAF engineers and engineering activities associated with electrical, mechanical, and communications, as well as civil, structural, and architectural groups.

Responsibilities

• Understand and maintain the assigned systems design requirements per the DAF Documented Safety Analysis.
• Ensure that design output documents appropriately reflect the design basis and required functional classification of the assigned DAF Structures, Systems and Components (SSCs).
• Authorize facility Configuration Management changes and manage the configuration of assigned DAF facility systems.
• Provide technical support in the areas of construction, maintenance, and nuclear operations.
• Coordinate with engineers, project managers, and maintenance personnel to ensure proper testing and documentation is developed to support component and system specifications, functions, and operability.
• Develop and maintain engineering documents, reports, and correspondence to enable business activity.
• Communicate job expectations; plan, monitor, and appraise job results; coach, counsel, and discipline employees; develop, coordinate, and enforce systems, policies, procedures, and productivity standards.
• Create an environment where employees feel safe to raise issues, empowered to address issues, and supported to resolve issues.
• Demonstrate environment, safety, health, and quality leadership and consistently enforce environment, safety, health, and quality policies and procedures.
• Implement applicable environment, safety, health, and quality requirements; emphasize the safety of each employee, and the protection of equipment and property in area of responsibility.
• Take immediate action to correct reported or observed unacceptable environment, safety, health and quality conditions and/or behaviors.
• Assure that appropriate procedures, training, equipment, warnings, and tools are provided to employees to permit work to be performed safely.
• Effectively interface and communicate with MSTS leadership, National Weapons Lab personnel, Nevada Field Office (NFO), and Defense Nuclear Safety Board (DNFSB) representatives.
• Promote and actively participate in the Mission Support and Test Services (MSTS) safety concept.
• Support and encourage employee participation in MSTS environment, safety, health, and quality initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent training and experience, plus a minimum of 11 years of related and progressively responsible experience.
• DOE STD 3009 is preferred, however, experience working in a government regulated industry is acceptable.
• Experience working with requirements-based systems or industries.
• Experience, skill, and/or training in the function of performing workload distribution and execution of the work.
• Skilled in working and communicating effectively with project functional groups, primarily Design Engineering, Construction, Project Management, and other services.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to interact with all types of people in a tactful, professional, and effective manner while maintaining confidentiality.
• Ability to cope with conflicting deadlines, heavy workloads, and constant interruptions.
• Demonstrated leadership qualities with emphasis on continuous improvement and team building.
• Knowledge of nuclear safety basis, technical vocabularies, and terminology common to the assignment.
• Skilled in standard office software (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Skilled in business usage of the English language.
• Proficient in standard office software (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Must possess a valid driver’s license.

Benefits

MSTS offers highly competitive salaries and benefits packages including medical, dental, and vision; both a pension and a 401k; paid time off and 96 hours of paid holidays; relocation (if located more than 75 miles from work location); tuition assistance and reimbursement; and more.