Facility Manager, T Plant

At the Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo), located in Richland, Washington, we are working to provide a sustainable future for the historic Hanford area through the protection of the Columbia River and the remediation of the Central Plateau. To achieve our mission, we need exceptionally talented, innovative, and driven people to help us reduce risks on the Hanford Site by removing some of the most hazardous waste streams and facilities in the Department of Energy (DOE) complex.

About the role

A day in the life of a Facility Manager, T Plant, includes:

• Providing overall facility and program management including day-to-day decisions required to compliantly operate T Plant, a Hazard Category II nuclear facility.
• Defining the facility’s objectives and overseeing quality control throughout its lifecycle.
• Proactively managing changes in facility scope, identifying potential crises, and devising contingency plans.
• Performing as the Control Account Manager and Buyer Technical Representative for facility-specific activities, as needed.
• Ensuring the facility and staff are ready to execute the project mission objectives.
• Coaching, mentoring, motivating, and supervising project team members and contractors, and influencing them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
• Establishing and maintaining operations, safety, environmental, and quality goals.
• Providing direction and oversight of personnel to meet goals in a safe, efficient, and cost-effective manner in accordance with all applicable requirements, including nuclear safety, QA, safety, environmental, radiological safety, and safeguards and security.
• Defining the work activities that support the facility’s program mission, including operations, maintenance, engineering, and training.
• Managing and integrating resources to ensure services are available to applicable Waste Facilities projects/facilities.
• Ensuring technical procedures and other work-related documents are prepared and used to provide appropriate work direction and ensuring work is performed safely and efficiently.
• Ensuring procedures incorporate appropriate controls for safe operation and environmental compliance, and personnel are trained commensurate with responsibilities.
• Ensuring all project work is performed within regulatory compliance, radiological controls, QA, engineering, and configuration control requirements.
• Conducting periodic assessments and implementing actions to improve the performance of work.
• Creating and executing facility work plans and revising, as appropriate, to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Ensuring facility documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.
• Assuring compliance in work planning, hazard identification and control, work performance within the controls including feedback and continuous improvement, and stop work responsibility.
• Maintaining effective relationships with client representatives to ensure proper and timely involvement and approvals, as well as a professional and business-like client/company relationship throughout the life of the operation or project.
• Advising management of developments that could affect project schedule, costs, client relations, and inter-departmental or interdivisional relations.
• Preparing routine status reports for the projects or operations to keep the client and company management informed of progress, risks, and/or issue resolution.
• Supporting facility holdovers, Friday and weekend work as needed to maintain the Facility commitments.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience plus 14 years of relevant experience.
• At least 2 years of required relevant experience must be nuclear experience.

Qualifications

• Recent or previous qualification as an Operations or Facility Manager in a nuclear facility.

Pay

Expected annualized pay range based on full-time schedule (40 hours per week): $157,700 – $276,250. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible for variable pay awards.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Life insurance.
• 401(k) employer match.
• Paid time off.
• Relocation funding provided.
• Casual-dress work environment.
• Standard 4-10’s work schedule (four 10-hour days per week).

For a full list of benefits, visit CPCCo Careers.