Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Job Title: Materials Integration & Disposition Project Lead
Career Level: Senior Associate
Organization: Strategic Asset Management (50298542)
Job Specialty: Production Projects
What You'll Do
The Materials Integration and Disposition Project Leads will provide support for dispositioning excess and unwanted material and difficult material throughout the Y-12 complex. This includes:
- Leading projects in support of multiple programs, evaluating and selecting candidate materials for disposition/disposal/relocation, obtaining authorizations, leading and tracking progress on projects, scheduling and coordinating support from various disciplines, and providing general project support.
- Requires working with operations and programs to solve various project related problems including capacity, safety and security.
- Assemble and lead project teams that are composed of personnel from multiple functional and operational organizations.
- Establishes the scope, cost and schedules of the projects/tasks to meet the objectives and milestones.
- Implements planning and execution of work to optimize organizational efficiencies and maximize support for customer requirements.
- Approves resources for the Program Managers to establish priorities within the Programs to accomplish project requirements.
Responsibilities
- Conducting research to characterize material and difficult material lots.
- Researching and documenting the history of material and difficult material lots.
- Understanding the different Y-12 facility material handling and storage requirements.
- Developing project plans and disposition paths for difficult materials.
- Reviewing work requests and procedures in order to execute the disposition of materials.
- Working independently to resolve project issues.
- Provide input to the various Program Managers to support their programs.
- Determine project risks, capabilities and propose commitments.
- Support project level planning in regards to budgets and programmatic objectives.
- Validate processing capability, capacity constraints and other impediments or opportunities to successfully execute materials disposition.
- Manage costs and provide other project status and milestone reports.
- Interface with Program Managers to ensure program objectives remain on target with ongoing projects.
Accountabilities
- Timely and through completion of difficult materials disposition efforts.
- Identification and execution of projects that disposition difficult materials.
Authorities
- Provide direction and assign work scope to team members to facilitate planning and execution of work on difficult materials.
- Authorized to manage the inputs and content of relevant databases in support of the difficult material disposition activities.
- Authorized to represent production personnel in the definition and execution of projects.
What You Can Expect
- Meaningful work and unique opportunities to support missions vital to national and global security.
- Top-notch, dedicated colleagues.
- Generous pay and benefits with a stable organization.
- Career advancement and professional development programs.
- Work-life balance fostered through flexible work options and wellness initiatives.
Minimum Job Requirements
- Bachelor's degree: Minimum 2 years of relevant experience.
- OR Master's degree: Minimum 1 year of relevant experience.
- OR PhD.
- Ten or more years of relevant education and/or relevant experience may be considered to satisfy educational and years-of-experience requirements for this posting.
Preferred Job Requirements
- Experience in facilities and operations activities and nuclear materials disposition activities.
- Requires an ability to interpret and apply program requirements to successfully fulfill job responsibilities, including frequent use and application of technical standards, principles, theories, concepts, and techniques.
- Ability to lead a team and work successfully in a team environment.
- Requires proficiency in computer software that allows efficient data processing and data manipulation and includes a working knowledge of Y-12 systems that process or store nuclear material information in order to fulfill job responsibilities.
- An understanding of the NMC&A functions is desired.
- Typical experience ranging from 4 to 7 years.
Notes
The minimum education and experience for the lowest career level in the job posting range are listed under Minimum Job Requirements. Successful candidates hired into a higher career level than the minimum in the range must meet the requirements listed in the job leveling charts for the career level into which they are being hired.
Requires a Q clearance; however all qualified candidates will be considered regardless of their current clearance status. The ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy Q clearance is required.
Position may require entry into Materials Access Areas (MAA) and participation in the Human Reliability Program (HRP). If HRP is required, candidate must complete a counterintelligence-scope polygraph, pursuant to 10CFR 709. Medical requirements may apply.
Equal Opportunity Employer
CNS is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, genetic information, disability or veteran status.
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