Senior Fellow/Engineer Specialized Professional Occupations

Duties

• Serve as the technical expert for operational readiness ensuring that physical and administrative boundaries are defined, and review level determinations are completed;
• Resolve technical problems and make decisions and recommendations to the project team and senior management;
• Ensure that integrated planning across multiple organizations and individuals is accomplished to identify the set of tasks needed to attain operational readiness;
• Ensure that tasks required for attaining operational readiness are fully accomplished with high quality products that can withstand the scrutiny of contractually required operational readiness verification reviews;
• Serve as the team leader or team member of review teams that perform readiness reviews to verify operational readiness or Safety Basis Implementation Validation Reviews to verify that the requirements, assumptions, and controls from safety basis documents (DSA and TSR) are correctly captured in the documents and are fully implemented;
• Provide expert-based training on the CNS Readiness Assurance Program to a variety of individuals including; Facility, Operations, Program and Project Managers and mentor less experienced staff.

Requirements

• The RL is accountable to the: Project or Program Manager and Site Manager for startups being operationally ready prior to the conduct of a readiness review;
• Production, Facility, Operations, and/or Mission Engineering Manager for completing IVRs for Safety Basis changes subject to the IVR process;
• Site Manager or delegate for completing readiness reviews.

Qualifications

• Specialized Professional Occupation Level 6 - BA/BS Degree plus 20 years of direct experience with 10 years of DOE-specific experience required, or an MA or MS Degree, plus 18 years of direct experience with 10 years of DOE-specific experience.
• Level 6 - BA/BS Degree plus 20 years of direct experience with 10 years of DOE/DOD-specific experience required, or an MA or MS Degree, plus 18 years of direct experience with 10- years of DOE/DOD-specific experience.