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Job Description

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.

Responsiblities

Facility & Testbed Engineering (F&TE) provides technical support to the nuclear and high hazard facilities using qualified cognizant system engineers to reliability and operability of their assigned systems that support the Stockpile Experimentation and Operations (SEO) directorate mission. F&TE manages the Nuclear Material Management (NMM) Program, which is responsible for nuclear material lifecycle management at the NNSS. The SEO Procedures and Records Group provides technical writing expertise for directives and procedures as well as records management for the nuclear and high hazard facilities and SEO processes. The F&TE Director is responsible for the execution of these objectives.

MSTS is seeking an F&TE Project Engineering Manager. The Project Engineering Manager will report to and assist the F&TE Director. The Project Engineering Manager will provide management and leadership to the multiple Facility Engineering teams supporting Infrastructure projects at SEO nuclear and high hazard facilities.

Key Responsibilities

+ Be able to act for the F&TE Director, assuming all roles and responsibilities involving projects performed at SEO Facilities.

+ Supervise F&TE multiple Lead Engineers assigned to the various projects. Each lead engineer will be directing an engineering team.

+ Mentors F&TE Engineers on the new systems created by those projects.

+ Direct and monitors the qualifications of the F&TE Engineers assigned to the projects. Then intent is that those engineers will assume the role of CSE and DA when the new systems are turned over to the facility.

+ Act as the Project Design Authority.

+ Coordinates technical issues between the Design Project Engineer, Nuclear Assurance, and the Facility. Provides engineering and technical reports to the various Project Managers.

+ Develop, track, and implement the following Project Documentation

+ Maintenance Requirements

+ Master Equipment List

+ Technical Baseline

+ Functional Classification Documents

+ System Design Description

+ Facility Change Requests

+ Acceptance Test Procedures

+ Configuration Management Plan

+ Commissioning Plans

+ Conduct Technical Reviews of the following Project Documentation

+ Project Preliminary Documented Safety Analysis

+ Project Design Drawings

+ Project Fire Hazards Analysis

+ Interface and Design Control Documents

+ Develop and manage assigned budgets.

+ Ensuring sufficient manning is available to support the various projects.

+ Develop and manage assigned schedules

+ Coordinates technical issues with the Commissioning Authority.

+ Coordinates technical issues with the Readiness Manager.

+ Coordinates Project priority list for the SEO Senior Director.

Qualifications

+ Bachelor's degree or equivalent training and experience, plus a minimum of 17 years of related and progressively responsible experience.

+ Previous experience managing teams.

+ Must be innovative and have good problem-solving skills.

+ Breadth of experience and ability to recognize, inspire and motivate others to perform well.

+ Ability to negotiate creative and innovative solutions.

+ Ability to enhance productivity.

+ Ability to exercise clarity and directness in all forms of communication.

+ Ability to improve and promote excellence.

+ Ability to delegate work assignments.

+ Ability to set expectations and to monitor delegated activities to closure.

+ Ability to make quality decisions.

+ Ability to deal with ambiguity and conflicting priorities

+ Work location is at the NNSS, (approximately 65 miles northeast of Las Vegas, NV).

+ The typical work schedule consists of four, 10-hour shifts, Monday through Thursday (subject to change).

+ Pre-placement physical examination, which includes a drug screen, is required. MSTS maintains a substance abuse policy that includes random drug testing.

+ Possess a valid driver’s license.

MSTS is required by DOE directive to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants offered employment with MSTS are also subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment. In addition, Applicants for employment must be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship, at least 18 years of age. Reference DOE Order 472.2 (https://www.directives.doe.gov/directives-documents/400-series/0472.2-BOrder-chg1-pgchg) , “Personnel Security”. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.

**Department of Energy Q Clearance** (position will be cleared to this level). Reviews and tests for the absence of any illegal drug as defined in 10 CFR Part 707.4 (http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=14b1c770db022992d237769fbe9fc519&mc=true&node=se10.4.707\_14&rgn=div8) , “Workplace Substance Abuse Programs at DOE Sites,” will be conducted. Applicant selected will be subject to a Federal background investigation, required to participate in subsequent reinvestigations, and must meet the eligibility requirements for access to classified matter. Successful completion of a counterintelligence evaluation, which may include a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination, may also be required. Reference 10 CFR Part 709 (http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?tpl=/ecfrbrowse/Title10/10cfr709\_main\_02.tpl) , “Counterintelligence Evaluation Program.”

MSTS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. MSTS is a background screening, drug-free workplace.

Annual salary range for this position is: $182,332.80 - $296,296.00.

Starting salary is determined based on the position market value, the individual candidate education and experience and internal equity.