Senior Readiness Leader

About the role

This position is a senior level position where the incumbent is fully responsible for providing strategic technical leadership and expertise for the CNS Readiness Assurance Program (RAP) with a focus on the startup of Weapon Facilities and Weapon Related Processes. This program provides technical direction for the startup and restart of complex nuclear and high-hazard non-nuclear Facilities, Activities, and Operations as well as performing detailed technical reviews of CNS Nuclear Safety Analysis Reports, Technical Safety Requirements, Process Hazard Analysis and supporting documentation.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Represent the Readiness Assurance Program in meetings.
• Establish expectations with appropriate Managers responsible for meeting defined readiness performance criteria; and provide technical direction to other Readiness Assurance staff.

Requirements

• 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.
• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Successful drug screening.
• Requires a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Q security clearance; however, all qualified candidates will be considered regardless of their current clearance status.

Qualifications

• Must have a BS degree in a related field.
• Must have 20+ years of relevant experience.
• Must have 10+ years of DOE-specific experience.
• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Must pass a drug screening.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a security or clearance badge.
• Must have a DOE Q security clearance.

Skills

• Strategic technical leadership and expertise.
• Technical direction for startup and restart of complex nuclear and high-hazard non-nuclear Facilities, Activities, and Operations.
• Performing detailed technical reviews of CNS Nuclear Safety Analysis Reports, Technical Safety Requirements, Process Hazard Analysis and supporting documentation.
• Expert based training on the CNS Readiness Assurance Program.
• Represent the Readiness Assurance Program in meetings.
• Establish expectations with appropriate Managers responsible for meeting defined readiness performance criteria; and provide technical direction to other Readiness Assurance staff.

Benefits

• Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance.
• Paid Vacation.
• 401K.
• Long and Short-Term Disability.

Pay

The pay range for this position is $125,000 - $175,000 annually.

Schedule

The schedule is full-time, Monday – Thursday 40-hour week.