Readiness Leader (16911)

What Youll Do

The 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.

The role of the Readiness Leader (RL) is to provide self-directed multi-disciplinary technical leadership to ensure that startups and restarts of a wide range of specialized operational systems are accomplished meeting operational readiness expectations.

In accomplishing this role the RL will be responsible to:
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 Verification Reviews (IVRs) to verify that the requirements assumptions and controls from safety basis documents (Documented Safety Analysis (DSA) and Technical Safety Requirements (TSR)) are correctly captured in the documents and are fully implemented; and
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 Readiness Assurance staff.

The RL is accountable to the:
Project or Program Manager and Vice President (VP) Production and Operations 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; and
VP Production and Operations or delegate for completing readiness reviews

The RL is authorized to:
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.

What You Can Expect

Minimum Job Requirements

• Bachelors degree: Minimum 12 years of relevant experience 15 years.
• ORMasters degree: Minimum 10 years of experience 15 years.
• OR PhD: Minimum 6 years of experience.

Preferred Job Requirements

• Bachelors Degree preferably in engineering or a physical science discipline plus 15 years of nuclear experience in either a technical or operational role or an equivalent combination of education training and work experience (e.g. Non-technical Bachelors degree and 20 years of relevant experience Masters Degree and 12 years of relevant experience or Doctorate Degree and 10 years of relevant experience)
• Combination of technical and operational readiness experience and skills the successful candidate will have a minimum of five years of combined experience in conducting operational readiness confirmation reviews (Readiness Reviews Implementation Verification Reviews and Operational Readiness Reviews) and/or in providing leadership in the attainment and validation of operational readiness for nuclear or high-hazard startup or restarts (preferably within the DOE or commercial nuclear power industry)
• Experience in doing both the reviews and validation of the attainment of operational readiness is highly desirable and may be given greater credit over more general and less relevant experience
• Familiarity with the requirements of 10 CFR 830 Nuclear Safety Management and experience with implementing requirements and controls in approved DOE Documented Safety Analysis (DSA) and Technical Safety Requirements (TSR) documents is highly desired
• Strong technical organizational communication and team building skills along with demonstrated supervisory and leadership skills
• Project Management experience
  

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