Criticality Safety Officer
Share
Job Location:
Oak Ridge, TN - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Location: Oak Ridge TN
Job Title: Criticality Safety Officer
Career Level From: Associate
Career Level To: Senior Specialist
Job Specialty: Nuclear/High Hazard Operations
What Youll Do
The Criticality Safety Officer provides technical oversight and guidance to ensure proper implementation of nuclear criticality safety requirements for a defined set of Y-12 capabilities and associated infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
- Provide technical guidance to ensure proper implementation of nuclear criticality safety (NCS) requirements to assure fissile materials are processed stored transferred and handled safely so that personnel and property are protected against a criticality accident
- Verify adequate implementation of requirements and controls on equipment processes and procedures is established for new or revised criticality safety documents
- Implement and oversee processes to ensure compliance with criticality safety requirements and NCS command media requirements
- Review from an operations perspective and provide input to criticality safety documentation;assist with resolving minor non-compliances and deficiencies along with proactively monitoring trends to reduce future issues
- Develop and control NCS posting requirements
- Perform CSO surveillances
- Coordinate changes in NCS documentation between Operations and the Criticality Safety Office
- Facilitate consistency standardization and simplicity in the application of Criticality Safety across production operations
Accountabilities:
- To the Criticality Safety Office Manager and Criticality Safety Management & Integration Senior Director for the establishment maintenance and implementation of a defined criticality safety office and integration of production and engineering functions to support nuclear criticality safety for Y-12
- To the facility Production Directors for resolution of conflicting priorities ensuring a healthy respect for Conduct of Operations principles and interpreting policies or procedures when questions arise regarding criticality safety principles and applications
Authorities:
- Assist with the definition and/or resolution of conflicts regarding implementation of criticalitysafety requirements
- Assist with abnormal response to criticality safety issues when required to maintain compliancewith policies and procedures governing Y-12 operations
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
- Bachelors degree: No experience
- OR Masters degree: No experience
- OR PhD: N/A
- In addition the applicant must meet the requirements of DOE O 426.2A (i.e. Baccalaureate in engineering or related scientific major 2 years job-related and 1-year nuclear experience; or a DOE O 426.2A alternative). DOE 426.2A Nuclear experience requirements can be satisfied following the interim newly hired personnel will not be assigned duties that could impact the safety basis of nuclear facilities. (Ref. DOE O 426.2A)
Preferred Job Requirements
- Bachelors degree in nuclear safety or engineeringis preferred
- Seven (7) years of relevant operations experience in areas involving NCS requirements is preferred
- Knowledge and understanding of the Criticality Safety analysis process Conduct of Operations Integrated Safety management Security Programs and other safetymanagement programs ispreferred
- Must be able to communicate well both orally and in writing with various levels of the organization
- Must have some understanding of technical operations; knowledge of plant operations services and structure; Conduct of Operations; and Integrated Safety Management
Why Y-12
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.
If a range of Career Levels is posted i.e. Senior Associate to Senior Specialist internal applicants already in one of the Career Levels would come across at their current Career Level. Internal applicants currently in a lower level Career Level would move to the lowest posted Career Level.
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.
CNS is a drug-free workplace. Candidates accepting a job offer will be required to pass a pre-placement physical drug screening and background investigation. As an employee you may be required to receive and maintain a security clearance from the United States Department of Energy in order to meet eligibility requirements for access to sensitive information or matter. U.S. citizenship is a requirement for security clearance applicants. All employees are subject to being randomly selected for drug testing without advance notification.
CNS is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment based on merit and without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation national origin protected veteran status or disability.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Key Skills
- Risk Management
- Data Entry
- Customer Service
- Hotel Experience
- Construction Experience
- Data Collection
- Military Experience
- Law Enforcement
- Workers' Compensation Law
- OSHA
- Security
- EPA
About Company
It is now almost two years since I took over as Group CEO in September 2015. At that time, CNS faced a mix of successes and challenges, while we were experiencing an unprecedented growth in our Asian business at the same time we faced numerous challenges in our Middle Eastern operati ... View more
