Director of Office of Assurance and Chief Risk Officer

The expected hiring range for this position is: $-$. Please note that the pay range information is a general guideline only. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such the scope and responsibilities of the position, qualifications of the selected candidate, business considerations, internal equity, and external market pay for comparable jobs.

The Director of the Office of Performance Assurance (OPA) is a member of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory’s (FNAL, Fermilab, or the Laboratory) Senior Leadership Team and is directly accountable to the Laboratory Director for providing leadership, vision, management, direction, oversight, and strategic and tactical planning for executing all aspects of the Laboratory’s Contractor Assurance System (CAS). The Laboratory’s CAS program is designed to enable outstanding science and operational excellence, while ensuring compliance with Fermi Forward Discovery Group’s (FFDG) prime contract requirements with the US Department of Energy (DOE) and other applicable requirements.

The Director of OPA also serves as the Laboratory’s Chief Risk Officer, and in this role, is responsible for:
1) independently managing FNAL’s enterprise risk management system (ERMS) to ensure Laboratory risks are identified, tracked, and addressed;
2) leading interactions with the FNAL Senior Leadership Team, DOE, and FFDG Members to identify, track, and address enterprise risks; and (3) independently develop leading risk indicators that specify the health of the Laboratory for FNAL and FFDG Member leadership.

The Director of OPA is also responsible for working with FFDG Members and the DOE Fermi Site Office (FSO) in implementing the Fermi/DOE prime contract and for managing the DOE-Office of Science Contractor Performance Evaluation and Management Plan (PEMP). The Director of OPA is additionally responsible for overseeing and managing the Laboratory’s institutional policies within frameworks set by FFDG Members and DOE requirements.

The OPA Director leads a team of professionals who manage these programs as well as programs for institutional metrics, assessment, issues management, event reporting and investigation, lessons learned, and quality assurance.

The OPA Director is expected to partner with Laboratory line management to enable and foster a proactive and integrated suite of management systems that collectively promotes an urgent need for critical self-evaluation and sustained improvement through the use of CAS of tools and processes.

• Leadership and direction in implementing CAS to support the Laboratory’s efforts to safely, effectively, and efficiently deliver its mission and projects and achieve operational excellence. Evaluate Laboratory performance and provide reasonable assurance to FFDG Members and DOE that the Laboratory has a set of management systems and processes that fulfill the requirements of the FFDG/DOE prime contract to manage and operate FNAL.
• Deployment, maintenance, and oversight of all elements of FNAL’s Performance Assurance management system, including enterprise risk management, management and independent assessment, metrics, feedback and improvement, institutional policies and requirements, and continuous improvement.
• Working with Fermilab’s Office of General Counsel (OGC), manage and maintain the FFDG/DOE prime contract and oversight of the Laboratory’s completion of prime contract deliverables.
• Oversight, advice, and counsel to FNAL management and staff on all CAS and QA-related matters. Processes and tools that provide DOE and FFDG access to CAS-related information and notifying stakeholders of assurance system changes.
• Management of the Laboratory’s PEMP processes including preparation and submittal of periodic FNAL PEMP self-evaluations to DOE FSO and Headquarters program offices and completion of the annual Contract Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS) process.
• Leadership and direction in implementing QA to support the Laboratory’s efforts to safely effectively and efficiently deliver…