Senior Material Control & Accountability Specialist

About the role

The Senior Material Control & Accountability (MC&A) Specialist will support the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Defense Nuclear Security (NA-70) MC&A program. This full-time position is available for the right person to work remotely.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to the Office of Security Operations and Programmatic Planning’s (NA-71) Material Control & Accountability (MC&A) Program Implementation Support function.
• Provide technical support to the implementation of Material Control and Accountability (MC&A) at NNSA sites.
• Support standardized implementation of effective and efficient MC&A programs that are tailored to a well characterized risk to include identifying common MC&A requirements for Category III and IV amounts of special nuclear material.
• Facilitate consistent implementation that is defensible from a risk management perspective with measurable performance to include the development of an MC&A Performance Testing Working Group.
• Provide a technical basis for designing MC&A programs in the context of the nuclear material inventory holdings and the missions of the NNSA sites.
• Provide technical support to the effort to modernize the Local Area Nuclear Material Accounting Software (LANMAS) to include developing requirements and software testing.
• Provide Technical Support to MC&A Program Manager to assist in:
  • Continued development of information to be included in Implementing Directions;
  • Budget development and validation process to support the NNSA Program and Resource reviews;
  • Technical support services to execute requirements and analyses to ensure regulatory compliance;
  • Technical support to the DNS In-Teach initiative in the area of MC&A to include conducting and monitoring courses, scheduling and identifying resources for courses, updating training materials, and tracking progress.
• All other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High School Diploma.
• An active DOE Q security clearance.
• 10+ years experience in supporting MC&A activities.
• Must have excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Must be able to work independently and with minimal direction and supervision.
• Possess extreme confidentiality