Directorate Security Officer

Company Description

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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has turned bold ideas into world-changing impact advancing science and technology to strengthen U.S. security and promote global stability.

Our mission spans four critical national security areas nuclear deterrence, threat preparedness, energy security, and multi-domain defense empowering teams to take on the toughest challenges of today and tomorrow. With a culture built on innovation and operational excellence, LLNL is a place where your expertise can make a real impact.

Job Description

We have an opening for a Directorate Security Officer (DSO) to provide technical subject matter expertise on security matters supporting the Operations and Business Principal Associate Directorate (O&B PAD) and Laboratory Director's Office. You will work in a fast-paced and diverse work environment and be responsible for advising directorate personnel and management to ensure implementation of DOE/NNSA and institutional security policies and procedures.

This position is in the Security Organization (SO) within the O&B PAD and reports to the Security Risk Manager.

You will

• Provide independent oversight of directorate organizations, activities, and facilities to ensure conditions and operations are consistent with Safeguards and Security requirements; serve as the directorate point-of-contact for employees on all security policies and procedures.
• Collaborate with all levels of management and personnel as appropriate to fill information requirements in support of the Principal Associate Director's decision-making process and response to security concerns.
• Implement security risk mitigation controls and consequence management initiatives identified through the security risk management process.
• Plan and lead security assessments, inspections, audits, and verifications of activities and facilities in coordination with the SO Assurance Management Office; this may require interaction with internal/external sponsors and senior management.
• Conduct causal analyses and drive issues and corrective action management for incidents of security concern and other security related issues within the O&B PAD.
• Partner with topical area managers within the Safeguards and Security functional area to develop and systematically deploy technically sound security compliance solutions.
• Sponsor organizational activities and programmatic operations through the Safeguards and Security Protection Strategy Review Board and participate in the security risk analysis and planning process as applicable.
• Serve as the O&B PAD Technical Surveillance Countermeasure (TSCM) Coordinator.
• Serve as the O&B PAD representative to the Operation Security (OPSEC) Committee.
• Maintain the DSO training curriculum, ensuring newly appointed institutional DSOs are trained.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• This position requires an active Department of Energy (DOE) Q-level clearance or active Top-Secret clearance issued by another U.S. government agency at the time of hire.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering or relevant technical field, or the equivalent combination of education and related experience in a technical security discipline.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of DOE/NNSA orders governing a variety of safeguards and security disciplines and LLNL security policies and procedures.
• Experience implementing and administering security requirements in any of the following: physical, technical, information, personnel, or cyber security. Expertise in defining and resolving quality management problems utilizing statistical tools to characterize, measure, and optimize integration of quality management elements into technical and administrative processes.
• Experience serving as the primary technical resource on internal/external committees that affect an organization's long-term goals and objectives.
• Experience analyzing and interpreting policies, directives, writing and reviewing security plans to demonstrate compliance with security requirements in a complex regulatory environment.
• Experience conducting assessments, audits, and inspections, writing corrective actions, and evaluating effectiveness using systems engineering principles, i.e) measures of performance and effectiveness.
• Demonstrated organizational skills to work with conflicting demands under tight time constraints.
• Advanced verbal and written communication, to effectively author reports, present and explain technical or operational information, and provide advice to senior management, regulators, and stakeholders.
• Experience developing and writing clear and concise policies, procedures, investigative narratives, formal reports, or other correspondence.
• Demonstrated effective interpersonal skills to effectively instruct, negotiate, influence and coordinate in a consistently positive manner with all levels of management and personnel across the Laboratory without formal authority.
• Experience working in a classified…