Senior/Principal Safety Basis Engineer - Environmental Safety & Health Planning, Remote

About the role

We are seeking a Safety Basis Engineer to join the Environmental Safety & Health Planning Department's Non-Nuclear Facility Safety Basis and Work Planning and Control Teams (WP&C).

Responsibilities

• Provide on-site and off-site technical assistance, classroom training, document reviews, audits and assessments, and support of hazard analyses.
• Perform analyses of processes, systems, and accident phenomenology.
• Affiliate with facilities with operating envelope documentation annual reviews/updates, to include safety evaluations for accelerators, and safety assessments for industrial facilities that require a more rigorous analysis, along with other safety basis documentation, including change and configuration management, JSA's and TWD's.
• Lead or assist with various aspects of the Readiness Review or Readiness Verification processes and evaluate the associated documentation to advise on whether planned work has achieved readiness for the safe startup or restart of operations.
• Prepare or review Unreviewed Safety Issue (USI) and Management of Change (MOC) documentation.
• Affiliate with facilities with development, maintenance, assessment, and implementation of their WP&C practices and processes.
• Develop, review, maintain, and/or provide comments on changes to internal department policies, department owned corporate policies and software, the ES&H Manual, and other corporate policies and documents.
• Develop, maintain, and provide SNL training on WP&C issues and procedures (classroom and virtual).
• Monitor WP&C and safety basis best-practices and lessons-learned across the DOE complex.
• Prepare and review technical reports based on the expert interpretation of analyzed data.
• Interface with a wide variety of Sandia departments such as operations, engineering, and assurance, at all levels of management, as well as the DOE Sandia Field Office and US Government strategic partners.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant STEM discipline, plus five (5) years or more years of directly related experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of the job.
• Experience in the following:
• Hazard analyses using techniques from Guidelines for Hazard Evaluation Procedures, (i.e. what-if checklist, failure modes and effects analysis, fault/event tree, and qualitative risk analysis using sound engineering principles).
• Risk analysis and risk management principles and fundamentals.
• Assessing administrative and/or validating the implementation of safety controls, including detailed understanding of administrative and engineering controls.
• Assess organizational WP&C practices and documentation.
• Provide instruction on WP&C, safety basis, and/or related ES&H topics.
• Interpret various mechanical and electrical drawings, process layouts, blueprints, and other drawings and schematics.

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. DOE L-level security clearance.

Desired Qualifications

• Working knowledge of Sandia's safety basis policies, practices, and procedures.
• DOE hazard categorization processes and principles.
• DOE/SNL Readiness Review and Readiness Verification processes.
• Application of ConOps at DOE facilities.
• Field of systems engineering.
• Facilitation and resolution of potentially contentious issues in a diverse group setting.
• Ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to oversee project teams in the planning, tracking, and execution of project plans from initiation to completion.
• Ability to provide leadership and tactical planning for execution of projects and apply engineering or other technical knowledge to achieve project objectives and deliverables.
• Ability to negotiate with customers on matters of customer requirements and limitations.
• Ability to conduct technical and program reviews to report status of schedule and performance to management and customers.
• Detailed understanding of programmatic and facility operations including engineered systems and respective performance characteristics or engineering controls, operating parameters, failure modes, preventive maintenance requirements, monitoring requirements, and calibrations/certifications.