Operations Specialist

This position will be filled at either the Operations Specialist 2/3 level, depending on the skills of the selected candidate. Additional job responsibilities outlined below will be assigned if the candidate is hired at the higher level.

The Utilities & Infrastructure (UI) Division is responsible for maintaining and operating all the Laboratory's utility systems, including electric, gas, sewer, steam, and water. In addition, UI maintains and manages the open space on site, including roads and grounds, and the Laboratory's Sustainability Program. Utilities & Infrastructure is seeking a dedicated and skilled Operations Specialist to join the Electric, Steam, and Turbine Operations (UI-EST) group.

Reporting to the UI-EST Group Leader and working closely with Operations Managers, this role coordinates operational activities across UI-EST and connects operations with maintenance, engineering, work control, projects, facility representatives, and customers. The position supports safe, reliable, and timely execution of electric, steam, and turbine work while maintaining clear accountability for operating decisions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate the planning, scheduling, communication, and status tracking of electric, steam, and turbine operations and maintenance activities.
• Maintain an integrated view of planned outages, operating constraints, work windows, customer impacts, and competing priorities; identify conflicts and elevate them for resolution.
• Facilitate outage planning meetings, readiness reviews, risk discussions, and post-work reviews with operations, maintenance, engineering, work control, project teams, facility representatives, and affected customers.
• Support preparation and review of work packages, outage plans, operating procedures, switching package inputs, integrated work documents, and hazardous energy control documentation.
• Track commitments, corrective actions, assessment findings, equipment issues, outage information, and operational performance measures through closure.
• Support field readiness checks and response coordination during emergent equipment conditions, utility interruptions, abnormal events, and recovery activities.

In addition to what was outlined at the lower level, at this level the selected candidate will independently coordinate multiple complex or high-consequence activities across electric, steam, and turbine systems with limited direction. The candidate will identify operational, schedule, interface, and resource risks; develop mitigation options and corrective actions; lead cross-functional readiness reviews for major outages and system upgrades; and analyze operational performance to recommend process improvements.

This level will also support resource forecasting and development of technical scope, schedules, and budget inputs for the UI-EST work portfolio, provide guidance to less-experienced staff, and participate in the UI Duty Officer or other on-call program when assigned.

Working knowledge of utility, power-generation, industrial plant, or comparable high-hazard operations. Demonstrated ability to interpret technical procedures, drawings, one-line diagrams, piping and instrumentation diagrams, schematics, and work-control documents. Working knowledge of industrial hazards, safe work practices, operating configuration, and hazardous energy control.

Experience coordinating work across operations, maintenance, engineering, projects, work control, and customers. Demonstrated ability to manage concurrent priorities, maintain accurate status information, and support…