Senior Nuclear Facility Operations Specialist; HEF

Senior Nuclear Facility Operations Specialist (HEF)

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$96,761.60/yr - $/yr

Mission Support and Test Services, LLC (MSTS) manages and operates the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) for the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Our MISSION is to help ensure the security of the United States and its allies by providing high-hazard experimentation and incident response capabilities through operations, engineering, education, field, and integration services and by acting as environmental stewards to the Site's Cold War legacy.

Our VISION is to be the user site of choice for large-scale, high-hazard, national security experimentation, with premier facilities and capabilities below ground, on the ground, and in the air. (See NNSS.gov for our unique capabilities.) Our 2,750+ professional, craft, and support employees are called upon to innovate, collaborate, and deliver on some of the more difficult nuclear security challenges facing the world today.

• MSTS offers our full-time employees highly competitive salaries and benefits packages including medical, dental, and vision; both a pension and a 401k; paid time off and 96 hours of paid holidays; relocation (if located more than 75 miles from work location); tuition assistance and reimbursement; and more.
• MSTS is a limited liability company consisting of Honeywell International Inc. (Honeywell), Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Jacobs), and HII Nuclear Inc.

The Senior Nuclear Facilities Operations Specialist serves as a Facility Representative/Explosives Worker at explosives facilities. As an integral part of our High Explosives Facilities (HEF) Team, this role coordinates and performs support activities in collaboration with external and internal partners to attain desired success and sustain operations.

• Serve as a Facility Representative for the day-to-day operations at assigned facilities located at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS).
• Help coordinate facility maintenance and operational activities. Track and deconflict release maintenance and operational work at facilities and assist personnel with support as needed.
• Conduct facility walkdowns, building access, inspections, rounds, monitoring equipment and implement corrective actions for discrepancies to maintain facility readiness.
• Ability to be qualified as a Local Emergency Director and perform operational drills and perform abnormal drills for assigned locations.
• Ability to perform Chemical Custodian duties, maintain calibrations, key control, and official duties as assigned.
• Knowledge of electronic systems (fixed camera systems, lightning detection, etc.) is a plus.
• Complete assigned tasks on time and within the prescribed budget.
• Interface and collaboration with external and internal project/laboratory partners and operational management for the assigned facility/project to determine appropriate level and scope of tasks necessary to attain project/operational goals and objectives.
• Perform all other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree in a field related to the position or equivalent training and experience, plus at least 5 years of relevant, progressively responsible experience, which included 2 years' experience in nuclear operations or nuclear maintenance such as those found at a DOE nuclear facility, commercial power plant, or US Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program; or experience with high explosives handling and operations;
  
  or chemical handling, storage, transfer, and controlled release activities.
• A degree in chemistry, explosives or engineering is preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills and demonstrated ability to interact with all levels of personnel and customers, ability to make recommendations to other personnel.
• Must be able to deal effectively with conflicting deadlines. Demonstrated self-starter, decision abilities. Be able to track and complete work activities and tasks with minimal supervision and follow-up.
• Demonstrated personal accountability, ability to follow written work documents and identify and communicate needed improvements and suggest viable solutions. Must have a great attention to detail.
• Explosive experience is a plus:
• Experience civilian or military explosive operations including explosives handling, packaging, inspect, inventory, transportation, assembly, firing site set up, firing and post firing operations, abnormal condition clearance, and/or disposition of excess explosives. and experimentation diagnostics strongly desired.
• Experience as Explosives Site Supervisor or Firing Site Leader in civilian or military explosive operations, with demonstrated success in the technical management of explosive operations and facilities, and the supervision of these operations preferred.
• Experience in various explosives firing initiation systems (e.g.,…