Director, Waste Disposition Programs Division

The Department of Energys mission is to ensure Americas security and prosperity by addressing its energy environmental and nuclear challenges through transformative science and technology solutions.

The Office of Environmental Management - Savannah River Operations Office (EM) is to complete the safe cleanup of environment legacy resulting from five decades of nuclear weapons development and government-sponsored nuclear energy research. EM is responsible for managing and directing the cleanup of contaminated nuclear weapons manufacturing and testing sites across the United States. Integral to that responsibility is the need to safely dispose of large volumes of nuclear waste safeguard and prepare for disposition of nuclear materials that could be used in nuclear waste safeguard and prepare for disposition of nuclear materials that could be used in nuclear weapons deactivate and decommission several thousand radiologically and chemically contaminated facilities no longer to support the Departments mission and remediate extensive surface and groundwater contamination.

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As a Director Waste Disposition Programs Division you will:

• Serve as the Senior Technical Advisor and senior engineering authority providing strategic leadership review and multidisciplinary engineering direction across major DOE-SR waste disposition programs projects and facilities.
• Oversee the development and execution of programmatic System Plans life-cycle baselines integrated schedules and technical strategies for the design construction testing startup and steady-state operations of new or modified facilities.
• Manage comprehensive contractor oversight formulate Performance Evaluation and Measurement Plans (PEMPs) evaluate contractor deliverables and baselines and exercise independent technical judgment in recommending earned award fees.
• Direct and ensure technical and regulatory compliance for complex operations involving the safe receipt storage chemical/radiological treatment processing packaging transportation and disposition of liquid solid radioactive/high-level and hazardous waste.
• Serve as primary technical spokesperson and liaison to DOE-HQ external regulatory bodies contractor executives and interagency partners to negotiate defend and resolve highly complex or controversial engineering and policy issues.
• Provide first-level administrative and technical supervision to Federal engineering staff including workload planning resource allocation performance management candidate selection and staff development.

• You must be a United States Citizen.
• This employer participates in the e-Verify program.
• If you are a male applicant born after December 31 1959 you must certify that you have registered with the Selective Service System or are exempt from having to do so under the Selective Service Law. See .
• If selected you may be required to complete a one year probationary period.
• If selected your appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination as determined by a completed background investigation.
• This position is not remote the selectee will be expected to report to the duty station(s) listed. If selected military spouses veteran caregivers and spouses of foreign service employees may be eligible for applicable workplace flexibilities.
• This position is not included in a Bargaining Unit.
• This position requires the incumbent to submit a Financial Disclosure Statement OGE-450 Executive Branch Personnel Confidential Financial Disclosure Report upon entering the position and annually (5CFR Part 2634 Subpart I USOGE 6/08).
• This position does not support 100% remote work. You will be required to report physically to the official reporting worksite as specified in this vacancy announcement.
• First-time supervisors will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period.
• This position is a Testing Designated Position (TDP) subject to applicant testing and random drug testing thereafter. Failure to test or a positive result on random drug tests conducted after appointment may result in removal from Federal employment.
• This position has been designated as Critical-Sensitive High Risk and requires a security clearance at the Q level. The incumbent is required to obtain and maintain this clearance; failure to do so may result in separation from federal service.
• This position is included in the Department of Energys Technical Qualification Program (TQP).
• New supervisors are required to complete 80 hours of supervisory training of which 40 hours must be completed during your first year as a supervisor.

To qualify for this position you must meet both the Basic Requirement and the Specialized Experience as described below.

BASIC REQUIREMENT:

A. 4-year course of study leading to a bachelors degree in professional engineering. To be acceptable the curriculum must: (1) be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics dynamics; (b) strength materials (stress-strain relationships);(c) fluid mechanics hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science and physics such as optics heat transfer soil mechanics or electronics.

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Combination of education and experience -- college-level education training and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering and (2) a good understanding both theoretical and practical of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:

1. Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI) Engineer in Training (EIT)1 or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State the District of Columbia Guam or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g. State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example an applicant who attains registration through a State Boards eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.

2. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States the District of Columbia Guam and Puerto Rico.

3. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical mathematical and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A above.

4. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelors degree in an appropriate scientific field e.g. engineering technology physics chemistry architecture computer science mathematics hydrology or geology may be accepted in lieu of a bachelors degree in engineering provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience e.g. in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.)

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: A qualified candidates online application and resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level GS-14 in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position is defined as meeting 3 of 4 the following:

1. Providing direction and technical oversight for the design construction commissioning startup or operation of nuclear radiological chemical or hazardous waste facilities and processes.
2. Overseeing leading or directing technical programs involving the safe handling storage treatment packaging transportation or disposal of high-level radioactive nuclear or hazardous waste operations.
3. Managing project scope life-cycle baselines integrated cost and schedule performance and technical risk for major capital facilities line-intern projects or high-risk industrial operations.
4. Evaluating contractor or vendor performance against formal performance metrics (e.g. Performance Evaluation and Measurement Plans award-fee criteria or statement-of-work deliverables) and recommending fee determinations or corrective action plans.