Early Career Hazardous Material Packaging Specialist, Onsite

About the Role

We are seeking a Hazardous Material Packaging Specialist to ensure that our department's operations align with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Transportation (DOT), and Sandia National Laboratories requirements for hazardous materials management, shipping, storage, handling, and transportation. This role will be critical in maintaining compliance and ensuring the safe and efficient handling of hazardous materials, which is essential for the success of our projects and the mission.

On any given day, you may be called upon to:

• Work with customers to establish shipping requirements and schedules.
• Provide packing instructions to prepare hazardous materials for shipment, including marking, labelling, and container selection.
• Oversee packaging activities to ensure compliance with quality and regulatory requirements.
• Sign legal shipping documentation on behalf of Sandia National Laboratories.
• Provide guidance and direction to internal customers for the safe and compliant shipment of items.
• Ensure safe compliant shipping of radiological and explosive materials.
• Collaborate with various internal and external stakeholders.

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent combination of education and/or experience
• Experience interpreting federal, state, or local hazardous material standards and regulations.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance.

Qualifications We Desire

• Excellent customer service and written communication skills.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Ability to model behaviors that reflect Sandia's core values.
• Ability to organize, prioritize, and follow through to completion on multiple tasks.
• Ability to work with sensitive information and classified matter.
• Understanding of and experience with the packaging and transportation requirements for explosives, radiological materials, and other hazardous materials covered by federal and state regulations is preferred.
• Ability to interpret federal, state, and local hazardous material standards and regulations.

About Our Team

Department 4761 - Enabling Sandia's Mission by providing technical review and packaging design of classified/unclassified hazardous material moves, e.g., radioactive, explosive, nuclear. The department and associated programs facilitate hazardous material transport made via commercial transportation operations including specialty shipments involving the Office of Secure Transportation (OST) while adhering to DOE, DOT, and OST requirements. Provides specialized packaging and labeling of hazardous materials to ensure the safe, compliant, and efficient packaging, handling, and transportation of hazardous materials. Meets all shipping regulations that apply to air, ground, vessel, and military transport.

Pay

Salary Range: $74,700 - $144,400

Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

Benefits

• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
• Extraordinary co-workers
• Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
• Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
• Generous vacation, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance, and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance

*Benefits vary by job classification.

Security Clearance

Sandia is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted. Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct, or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.