Senior Engineer Instrument & Control

Overview

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 full‑time employees highly competitive salaries and benefits packages including medical, dental, and vision; both a pension and a 401(k); 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.

We are seeking a self‑motivated Senior Engineer to serve as the Instrument & Control (I&C) Engineer who will participate in planning, specifying, scheduling, designing, implementing, and commissioning Facility and Infrastructure design changes at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). In this role, the I&C Senior Engineer must take a disciplined approach to evaluating existing conditions and devising upgrade designs to highly regulated nuclear facilities.

In addition to instrumentation and control responsibilities, the engineer will be required to prepare designs for communication systems, which include standard phones, voice over IP phones, data network distribution, outside plant design, inside plant cabling design, public address, security system interface coordination with NNSS security contractors, and other miscellaneous data type systems. All network designs will be coordinated with MSTS Information Technology (IT) department to ensure compatibility with their systems.

Familiarity with Department of Energy (DOE) or Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulated design changes is highly desirable but not a requirement.

• Support validation and verification of software specified for customer’s systems utilizing Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE)‑1012 Verification and Validation of Software Requirements. Software validation needs can be associated with electric circuit analysis, specifying compatible electric and electronic components, network design, cable installations, and an understanding of process control (e.g., ventilation, hydraulics, electrical generation and distribution, Public Address systems, access control and security, and Building Automation).
• Implement system designs to meet DOE‑STD‑1195 – Design of Safety Significant Safety Instrumented Systems used at DOE Nonreactor Nuclear Facilities.
• Support Technical Lead for major projects and startups. Initiates collaboration with partners external to MSTS. Leads collaboration with other disciplines and departments to achieve mission execution. Ensure team’s processes and deliverables comply with laws, codes, orders, and MSTS policies and procedures. Must have good communication skills to convey technical issues to general audiences.
• Serve as an advisor to management and other personnel on difficult and critical technical issues. Participate in business development by defining customer needs, developing proposals and planning projects that will produce results meeting customer needs. Work with customer personnel to ensure needs are clearly defined. Work with others to meet customer objectives.
• Apply knowledge and ingenuity to implement cutting edge, pioneering solutions in the technical arena, often in unexplored areas of…