Senior​/Principal Safety Engineer - Environmental Safety & Health Planning, Remote

Position: Senior/Principal Safety Basis Engineer - Environmental Safety & Health Planning, Remote
About Sandia:

Sandia National Laboratories is the nation's premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:

+ Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide

+ Extraordinary co-workers

+ Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world

+ Career advancement and enrichment opportunities

+ Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)

+ Generous vacation, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance
* World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..gov

* These benefits vary by job classification.

What Your Job Will Be Like:

We are seeking a Safety Basis Engineer to join the Environmental Safety & Health Planning Department's Non-Nuclear Facility Safety Basis and Work Planning and Control Teams (WP&C). This is an experienced and diverse team that performs a wide array of tasks to provide safety basis oversight and support Sandia's moderate hazard and accelerator facilities, as well as to the corporate WP&C program.

On any given day, you may be called on to:

+ Provide on-site and off-site technical assistance, classroom training, document reviews, audits and assessments, and support of hazard analyses.

+ Perform analyses of processes, systems, and accident phenomenology.

+ Assist facilities with operating envelope documentation annual reviews/updates, to include safety evaluations for accelerators, and safety assessments for industrial facilities that require a more rigorous analysis, along with other safety basis documentation, including change and configuration management, JSA's and TWD's.

+ Lead or assist with various aspects of the Readiness Review or Readiness Verification processes and evaluate the associated documentation to advise on whether planned work has achieved readiness for the safe startup or restart of operations.

+ Lead or assist with Conduct of Operation (Con Ops) assessments.

+ Prepare or review Unreviewed Safety Issue (USI) and Management of Change (MOC) documentation.

+ Assist facilities with development, maintenance, assessment, and implementation of their WP&C practices and processes.

+ Provide expertise in hazard identification, facilitate hazard analyses to identify and select appropriate controls, and develop/review safety cases.

+ Develop, review, maintain, and/or provide comments on changes to internal department policies, department owned corporate policies and software, the ES&H Manual, and other corporate policies and documents.

+ Develop, maintain, and provide SNL training on WP&C issues and procedures (classroom and virtual).

+ Monitor WP&C and safety basis best-practices and lessons-learned across the DOE complex.

+ Prepare and review technical reports based on the expert interpretation of analyzed data.

+ Interface with a wide variety of Sandia departments such as operations, engineering, and assurance, at all levels of management, as well as the DOE Sandia Field Office and US Government strategic partners.

The selected applicant can be a remote worker located in any U.S. State or District of Columbia.  Regular or periodic travel to your assigned work location may be required.

Salary Range:

* Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

Qualifications We Require:

+ Bachelor's degree in a relevant STEM discipline, plus five (5) years or more years of directly related experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of the job.

+ Experience in the following:

+ Hazard analyses using techniques from Guidelines for Hazard Evaluation Procedures, (i.e. what-if checklist, failure modes and effects analysis, fault/event tree, and qualitative risk analysis using sound engineering principles).

+ Risk analysis and risk management principles and fundamentals.

+ Assessing administrative and/or validating the implementation of safety controls, including detailed understanding of administrative and engineering controls.

+ Assess organizational WP&C practices and documentation.

+ Provide instruction on WP&C, safety basis, and/or related ES&H topics.

+ Interpret various mechanical and electrical drawings, process layouts, blueprints, and other drawings and schematics.

+ Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. DOE L-level security clearance.

Qualifications We Desire:

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Experience with the following:

+ Working knowledge of Sandia's safety…