Employee Concerns Program Lead

GENERAL SUMMARY

Responsible for supporting and executing administration of the corporate-wide Employee Concerns Program to promote a positive compliance culture and minimize risk and misconduct. Receive and respond to various worker concerns, investigating or referring matters as appropriate. Support research and responses to Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) allegation requests for information (RFIs). Collaborate with key functional areas to ensure nuclear safety culture efforts are strong and support the Compliance and Concerns organization.

Energy Northwest’s Employee Compliance and Concerns Program (ECP) involves a blend of relationship building for all employees, leadership support and encouragement, and regulatory relations and communication. The ECP professional will provide support to staff and station leadership to assure a healthy nuclear safety culture agency wide, particularly to staff that have a connection to nuclear business. Ensure actions to satisfy regulatory nuclear safety culture requirements are identified, addressed, and resolved to reduce the potential for negative impacts to Energy Northwest's confidence and trust with employees, the regulator, and the public.

• Advocate and support maintaining a compliance program consistent with the federal guidelines.
• Consult with management on compliance and concerns matters.
• Conduct networking and benchmarking with other utilities and ECP professional groups.
• Design and administer site-wide surveys, training, and communications pertaining to the compliance and concerns programs.
• Receive and investigate worker concerns on a variety of matters including technically complex issues in accordance with the compliance and concerns programs.
• Consult subject matter experts or refer issues as appropriate to other organizations (e.g. Human Resources, Industrial Safety).
• Receive, research, and respond to Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) allegation requests for information.
• Facilitate and support efforts to promote a healthy nuclear safety culture (e.g. nuclear safety culture assessments, Nuclear Safety Culture Monitoring Panel, NRC PI&R, EN News Articles, Ask EN reviews feedback).
• Establish, control, and maintain appropriate program records and files.
• Maintain awareness and ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and guidelines (e.g. 10
  
  CFR
  50.5 and 50.7, Section 211 of Energy Reorganization Act, NEI 09-07).
• Support the application of sound leadership principles, expectations, and techniques.
• Promote ethics and compliance culture through training and engagement with staff.
• Perform activities in lieu of the Compliance and Concerns Manager when delegated.
• Perform as a member of an Emergency Response Team (ERO).
• Perform a pre-outage or outage assignment.

Required education/training includes:

• A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
• National Association of Employee Concerns Professionals Certification, or the ability to acquire certificate within 12 months.

Required experience includes:

• Seven years nuclear power plant experience including working knowledge of 10
  
  CFR
  50 App. B corrective action program.
• Minimum of at least three years of implementing and/or conducting cause evaluations or investigations.

Pay Range $ - $ Annual Midpoint: $ Typically, selected candidates are hired between the minimum and midpoint of the range, based on applicable experience and qualifications, market rate, internal equity, and budgetary allowances. Offers will be negotiated based on each candidate's qualifications.

This role may be eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan. Incentives are earned based on employee performance against defined metrics and company goals.

Energy Northwest (EN) provides a phenomenal benefits package. Washington State also has no state income tax, and the Tri-Cities provides a cost-of-living lower than the national average. EN offers substantial retirement benefits through three retirement programs including the Washington State Public Employees' Retirement System pension plan (PERS), a 401(k) savings plan with an employer match…