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• Provide expert project management support in the areas of scheduling, estimating, planning, project execution and strategic planning.
• Perform major organization assessments, project leadership assessments, and NNSA HQ interface to the SRPPF organization.
• Provide mentoring to project/program managers and project control personnel in 413.38 implementation, project execution, Independent Project Reviews (IRR), Annual Project Reviews (APR) and EVMS.
• Lead and/or participate in major project reviews such as contractor red/green team reviews ahead of IPRs, APRs, ICE, preliminary/final design and CD-3x packages submittals.
• Provide consultation on all aspects of the plutonium facility operations to include multi-shift operations, BG operations (acquisition/operability/constructability), waste management and radiological operations.
• Advise and support management in development of integrated team structure, leading identification of mission objectives and performance evaluation.
• Provide oversight of support operations, possibly involving multiple projects and groups of personnel.

• Up to a 20-hour work week is scheduled. Service providers may be authorized to work remotely (where remote work may be possible) via teleworking from an offsite location.
• Travel to SRS is required up to 25%. Subcontractors should consider business travel costs to and from SRS when submitting candidates.

• Master’s degree in a technical field with 25 years broad experience in engineering, operations, marketing, strategic and business planning, or a bachelor’s degree in a technical field with 30 years’ experience as described above.
• 20 or more years of experience working in plutonium facilities or on plutonium projects.
• 15 or more years of 413.3B project management experience.
• 5 or more years of experience on NNSA/DOE capital line-item projects.

• 10 or more years working at the Savannah River Site is preferred.

• Area Security Access:
  Candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a DOE “Q” security clearance. An active DOE clearance is not initially required to perform assigned duties.

• PMP Certification.
• PE License in the state of SC.
• Active DOE “L” or “Q” security clearance.

• Provide technical oversight, technical support and engineering leadership for chemical process systems and unit operations (e.g., solvent extraction, dissolving, evaporation, ion-exchange, precipitation, calcination, etc.) in the Savannah River H-Canyon and HB-Line operating nuclear materials processing plants, including:
• Provide evaluations and recommendations to Engineering Management on nuclear operations.
• Perform and support site organization in mission and strategic planning for H-Canyon and HB-Line.
• Provide technical oversight to facility engineering organizations and mentoring of junior engineers.
• Develop process flow sheets.
• Direct SRNL in process flowsheet development and anomaly evaluation.
• Perform technical reviews of engineering and nuclear safety documents.
• Provide direction to safety basis development strategy and input selection.
• Lead technical teams to resolve division-wide issues.
• Provide general engineering support to ensure safe facility operations.
• Perform daily work duties in accordance with Site procedure E7 and 11Q.

• Minimum required is a BS Degree in Chemical Engineering from an accredited 4-year institution.
• Candidate must have a minimum 30 years of experience with DOE nuclear material processing.
• Familiarity with H-area and F-area Separations processes is preferred.
• Candidate must have ability to walkdown systems in the field.
• Must understand and have experience with the following:
• Properties and characteristics of nuclear materials such as 239
  
  Pu, 238
  
  Pu, 237
  
  Np, 233U, HEU, LEU, NU, 241
  
  Am, and other unique and rare isotopes.
• Technical and safety related knowledge of SRS Fuel processing including PUREX and HM oxidation reduction flow sheets, and electrolytic dissolution.
• Nuclear system operations and supporting technical bases for the following: building air supply, exhaust, exhaust filtration (HEPA and sand filter), chemical storage and distribution systems, steam, cooling water supply and return, compressed air (breathing, instrument, process, and plant), electrical, nuclear criticality alarm systems and their control schemes including distributed controls.
• Ability to integrate nuclear safety, operations, and chemical processes.
• DNFSB Interaction to discuss / resolve technical issues and concerns.
• Candidate must have strong oral and written communication skills. Teamwork skills are important in the highly-matrixed project environment at the SRS.