Manufacturing Manager ; First Line Manager

What You Will Do

PSD-3 is seeking a highly motivated First Line Manager to support Advanced Recovery and Integrated Extraction System (ARIES) and Material Recovery and Recycling (MR&R) operations. Working in the Plutonium Supply and Disposition (PSD) Division, ARIES helps support monitoring the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear stockpile and conducting advanced research in numerous areas related to national security. MR&R provides nuclear material recovery and recycling efforts in support of the weapons production mission.

Our primary function covers nuclear material recovery, recycling and disposition efforts with teams executing pit disassembly, metal conversion, oxide stabilization and processing, 3013 packaging, and analytical chemistry operations. The Manufacturing Manager 3, First Line Manager (FLM), will report to a Group Leader and will provide leadership, management, and oversight of the assigned team. The FLM will have the responsibility, authority and accountability to execute work that supports programmatic milestones and deliverables while setting the standards for professional behavior and operational effectiveness.

• Ensures administrative and operating procedures are current, understood, and adhered to before releasing work.
• Working with facility operations staff to execute work safely, securely, with quality, and in compliance with nuclear facility requirements.
• Ensures direct daily oversight of work, workers and the work environment. Accepting responsibility for the safety over people, equipment, and processes.
• Ongoing communications with line management reporting on work status, deliverables and commitments.
• Directing and overseeing work performed by employees including  on the floor  supervision.
• Planning, organizing, and defining strategic objectives.
• Establishing scope, schedule, resource need of team, overseeing performance management and ensuring worker qualification and authorization.
• Delivers quality products and/or services; enforces adherence to quality standards; achieves balance between the need to meet both productivity goals and quality standards.
• Effective time management skills and the ability to deal effectively with changing priorities and conflicting demands.
• Effective teamwork in accomplishing objectives, including mentoring and motivating peers.
• Providing insight over budget, procurement, time and labor, travel, and property of assigned team members.
• Qualified Glovebox worker and Fissile Material Handler Supervisor.

Minimum

Job Requirements:

Leadership: Demonstrated record of successful technical leadership and proven ability in supervising, resolving conflicts, administering discipline, mentoring, team building, managing staff requirements, motivating employees, and developing personnel spanning all career levels.

Knowledge and Expertise: Demonstrated experience in developing work scope, schedules, and coordinating work activities. Experience planning for and managing tactical execution of work; tracking and reporting progress. Experience performing work in a manufacturing environment and executing work in compliance with facility requirements, conduct of operations, conduct of engineering and conduct of maintenance standards.

Accountability: Experience working with confidential or proprietary information, classified documents or sensitive information.

Communication: Demonstrated effective written and oral communication skills as evidenced by internal and external interactions (seminars, briefings, presentations, and publications); effective interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to interact with all levels of personnel and customers.

Education/

Experience:

Position requires a bachelor's degree in a related field from an accredited institution and 5 years of related experience; or, an equivalent combination of education and experience directly related to the occupation.

DOE Order 426.2: Requires a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering or related science, and 4 years nuclear experience. Education or experience that is job related may be substituted on a case-by-case basis. The degree may…