Do you want to be a part of a national security mission that conducts research and development? Mission Support and Test Services, LLC (MSTS) is seeking a full-time Electrical Engineer I to work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide diagnostic fielding and development support in a national laboratory environment. The Stockpile Experimentation & Operations organization needs a highly motivated Electrical Engineer I to collaborate in design, development, characterization, and fielding of diagnostics systems on high stake weapons physics experiments conducted at the U1a Complex and other facilities located at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). This Electrical Engineer I will report primarily to the NNSS and will support fielding efforts of a wide variety of diagnostic detection and recording systems, with an emphasis on practical applications of diagnostics for timing/firing and controls systems interfacing with other diagnostics such as radiographic imagining systems and electro-optics systems. | | Key Responsibilities | - Frequently use and apply established technical standards, principles, theories, concepts, and techniques commonly associated with diagnostic and data collection systems. | - Focus is on applying academic knowledge to the work environment and developing good work/team habits. | - Contribute to solutions of problems and issues with limited scope and basic complexity, using a well-defined set of technologies, generally in support of more senior engineers and scientists. | - Assist in compiling and summarizing scientific data, utilizing technology solutions for both experimental and operational needs. | - Contribute to the preparation of project deliverables. | - Define specifications for procurements and initiates purchase requests. | - Select and implement computer applications for related field. | - Build direct relationships with laboratory partners and will use scientific methods to contribute to experimental operations, also reporting on accomplishments to internal and external stakeholders. | - Support research and development, and technology maturation activities in laboratory testing environments.
Head of Strategic Communications (Manager III) | | This role is located in Washington, D.C. In support of Mission Support and Test Services’ (MSTS) government and customer relations work, this role is responsible for MSTS’ strategic communications. This position will report directly to the Vice President of Government/Customer Relations and Strategic Partnerships. | | Mission Support and Test Services (MSTS) manages and operates the Nevada National Security Sites (NNSS) for the US Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA). NNSS has offices across the country, including Southern Nevada; Santa Barbara and Livermore, California; Edgewood, New York; Joint Base Andrews, Maryland; Washington, D.C.; and Albuquerque and Los Alamos, New Mexico. | | Key Responsibilities | - Serve as the "voice of the company" by writing strategic communications: speeches, talking points, briefings, press statements, presentations, and other executive communications for the MSTS president and other senior leaders. | - Oversee a team supporting the Executive Office. | - Prepare the MSTS president and other senior leaders for public presentations, including media interviews. | - Serve as an MSTS spokesperson. | - Assist in developing and maintaining positive relationships for the NNSS with congressional offices and committee staff, as well as DOE, NNSA, and other federal agencies. | - Track legislation and policies, including appropriations and authorization bills, related to NNSS’ mission and priority areas. | - Provide analysis for MSTS leadership of salient points of a bill or initiative as it relates to the NNSA/NNSS. | - Assimilate inputs from key stakeholders and translate complex ideas, concepts and issues into clear and compelling messages. | - Analyze, interpret, and advise on policy initiatives and issues of interest. | - Collaborate with NNSS leadership to develop and execute strategies and initiatives related to the work performed at the NNSS. | - Organize meetings, briefings, and other interactions with government officials in Washington, D.C. and other offices. | - Coordinate and/or represent the NNSS at events and engagements. | - Perform other duties as assigned.
The Records Administration department is in search of a Principal Records Management Specialist (Principal Administrative Specialist), who will be a records expert with experience implementing and maintaining a NARA and DOE compliant record-keeping program. Duties include functioning as a team lead, implementation, and management of document control and records management for physical and electronic records. | | Key Responsibilities | - Functional subject matter expert for records management and document control, to monitor MSTS’ compliance to federal laws, DOE Orders, industry standards, and NARA regulations. | - Maintain ongoing communications with all departments regarding maintenance, creation, revising, reviewing, retrieval, destruction, scheduling, and archiving of records. | - Organize, monitor, classify, and review electronic records and inventories for appropriate arrangement, metadata, and workflow. | - Complete customer requests to locate and distribute records consigned to the Local Records Center (LRC). | - Generate record management reports including regular audits. | - Assist with orientating and training others on the appropriate records management processes and procedures. | - Perform Records Management operational tasks, including but not limited to, record keeping system reviews and general inquiries, contribute to the development of new programs, policies, and procedures to support customers. | - Maintain the document management system for issuance, recording, filing, tracking, retrieval of documents like procedures, plans, specifications and related documents including quality checking and publishing documents to the controlled document repositories. | - Control issuances of document numbers and ensures proper document classification, sorting, filing and proper archiving. | - Scan and index document into enterprise content management system; reviews, indexes, distributes, and files engineering drawings – ensures the latest versions are distributed and determines if drawings are duplicate copies or new and need to be added to Enterprise contentment management software. | - Perform technical historical research and gathers data needed by Contractor, Laboratories, and other NNSA/NSO contractors; scans and converts files/drawings from microfilm, microfiche, and aperture cards to electronic format; and performs OCR services upon request. | - Work at alternate locations when needed. | - Scan and index document into electronic records repository; reviews, indexes, distributes, and files engineering drawings – ensures the latest versions are distributed and determines if drawings are duplicate copies or new and need to be added to electronic records repository. | - Give presentations and training to customers relative to records, document control, and engineering documents. | - Lead departmental projects and initiatives. | - Other duties assigned by department manager.
MSTS is seeking a dynamic, self-driven, and highly motivated Business Assistant to join our Personnel Security team. In this role, you will support activities for the NNSS badge offices, which control all badging activities to maintain security of operations and authorized access to the NNSS, its buildings and facilities. Our offices serve as Homeland Security Presidential Directive - 12 (HSPD-12) credentialing centers for Southern Nevada and as the central point where security badges are issued to employees and official visitors. | | Key Responsibilities | - Create and maintain badge records and maintaining daily accountability and inventory of badges. | - Provide customer service in a fast-paced and multi-tasking environment with short deadlines. | - Daily activities include processing and issuing badges, answering phones; and monitoring, retrieving, and processing electronic and paper requests. | - Serve as an Activator/Registrar for HSPD-12 credentials. | - Enter and maintain biographical data, take photographs, and print badges. | - Prepare and issue temporary and permanent Local Site Specific Only (LSSO) badges. | - Enroll visitors into the badging system for access to facility card readers and prepare and issue visitor passes. | - Process and issue special permits. | - Generate and process daily reports. | - Verify security clearances. | - Maintain badge accountability. | - Records management. | - Assist in cross-training other personnel. | - Assist in other section support as needed.
As an integral part of the General Accounting team, you will work on monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting and analysis. Your work will have a direct impact on the financial success of the company. | | Key Responsibilities | - Perform relevant work as part of the Standard Accounting and Reporting System (STARS) Team responsible for external reporting to the Department of Energy (DOE) to include, monthly cost submission, preparing various internal and external reports, and preparing financial statements. | - Perform account reconciliations and analysis. | - Lead or assist with special projects as assigned. | - Learn Relocation reimbursement processing and perform weekly reviews and back-up duties as needed. | - Learn Property and Inventory responsibilities to perform back-up duties as needed. | - Perform other back-up duties as assigned.
We have an opening for a Procurement Specialist I responsible for procurement tasks and functions to support Mission Support and Test Services, LLC, (MSTS) requirements and procedures including: | | Responsibilities | - Form and issue purchase orders including pre-qualifying bidders, preparing bidders lists, forming bid packages, issuing bid requests, coordinating bidder's questions, receiving bids, evaluating bids, preparing bid summary and award recommendation letter, recommending and securing approvals in accordance with established procedures, preparing and committing order, and preparing and maintaining control and status reporting documents. | - Administer assigned purchase orders by performing the following functions: | - Establishing files and controls for all outgoing and incoming correspondence on each assigned order. | - Monitoring supplier performance for conformance to commercial terms. | - Monitoring activities by Engineering and other in-house functions to ensure compliance with order terms. | - Initiating follow-up actions with the suppliers or in-house functional group to ensure performance in accordance with order terms and conditions. | - Informing or working with other project Procurement personnel as assigned to the administration of the order. | - Analyzing and distributing those suppliers' reports specified in the order. | - Reviewing and commenting on special payment billings. | - Participating with Engineering and supplier representatives in discussions held to clarify order documents and/or specification requirements. Identifying, defining, and securing agreement regarding potential changes. | - Initiating and processes purchase order revisions of agreed upon changes. | - Conducting closeout review of the order documents. | | - Perform assigned tasks under supervision in formation and administration of purchase contracts, construction contracts and technical service agreements. Exercises independent judgment in performing assigned contract tasks consistent with the development of skills as determined by assigned supervisor. | - Communicate with suppliers to achieve performance required by the purchase order or other contractual documents to meet project needs. | - Communicate with Engineering to achieve the understanding needed to process material requisitions. | - Prepare and organize Procurement sponsored meetings such as bid clarification and post award meetings for the purpose of ensuring complete understanding and agreement between Mission Support and Test Services, LLC and supplier on all contractual matters. After reviewing plan and agenda with supervisor, conducts meeting and prepares and issues meeting notes. | - Perform other duties assigned by Management.
The Material Testing Lab on site at the Nevada National Security Site is in search of a highly qualified Senior Quality Control Inspector to support ongoing projects for the night shift. The schedule for this position will be night shift. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in welding inspection. | | Key Responsibilities | - Maintain comprehensive company level QC program implementing documents (Welding, Inspection, Pressure Safety and Materials Testing); provide interpretations of codes and standards and mentor employees on procedural adherence to these processes. | - Perform oversight, through independent quality control inspections and verifications, of items, systems, components, or products that are fabricated or installed by other workers for new or existing facilities and infrastructures. | - Exhibit a high degree of technical knowledge and skills to execute applicable national consensus codes and standards to inspect, examine, or test items or products to ensure they meet design requirement. | - Select the appropriate national consensus codes or standards and develop quality inspection criteria to be used to perform inspections. | - Maintain qualification and or certification to perform Quality Control inspection activities based on education, training, experience in one or more of the inspection disciplines (e.g. welding, nondestructive examination/testing, boilers and pressure systems, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, materials testing and verification, concrete, soils, anchoring, etc.). | - Make autonomous judgment during inspections activities to determine whether items, systems, components, or products are acceptable for use, or not, based on design requirements. | - Generate non-conformance reports that document the objective evidence where items or products do not meet design requirements. | - Authority to identify nonconforming conditions or defects and prevent items or products from being released for use until nonconforming conditions are resolved. | - Interface with internal line personnel (engineering, construction, facility, project, operations, work control, procurement, maintenance, quality assurance, etc.), middle and senior managers, and external MSTS customers to analyze and correct the production problems. | - Document the results of inspections or tests in accordance with national consensus standards and codes, procedures, engineering requirements, and/or industry practices as defined in written procedures. | - Perform other duties assigned by Management.
We have an opening for a Principal Procurement Specialist to provide technical guidance on preparation, solicitation, negotiation, award and administration of procurement documents and coordinate procurement activities with the requesting organization. | | Key Responsibilities: | - Responsible for both the orderly performance and completion of all procurement commitments through the several steps of bidding, which includes: | - Preparing bidders lists. | - Pre-qualifying bidders. | - Formatting bid packages. | - Issuing bid requests. | - Coordinating bidders’ questions. | - Receiving bids. | - Evaluation of bid proposals. | - Supplier selection. | - Preparing recommendation documentation to secure approvals for an award in accordance with established policies and procurement procedures and the post award administration functions of purchases. | | - Responsible to also support work, performed by the national laboratories associated with Mission Support and Test Services LLC (MSTS) that generally tends to be proprietary and complex in nature. | - In conjunction with other functional departments, ensures suppliers’ performance of each order is in accordance with the subcontracted terms and conditions and requirements. | - Advise, interface, and provide expert guidance to other MSTS personnel as delegated on matters relating to the processing of requisitions for the purchases and subcontracting of goods and services. | - Prepare and develop Subcontract and Purchase Order strategies and recommend methods for review and presentation to senior and client management. | - Consider applicable laws, commercial conditions, economic climate, and other factors that affect the purchasing of materials, equipment, and services. | - Comply with department requirements and procedures. | - Prepare and maintain bidder lists to ensure input is received from all procurement functions and other operational groups as well as ensuring appropriate provisions are reflected in the general, special and pricing conditions of the Subcontracts and Purchase Order forms. | - Review Offer or recommendations for completeness and approves selection of suppliers within delegated approval authority. | - Ensure all commitments are accurately presented and follow established approval and signing authorities contained in procurement procedures. | - Review and recommend bid selections that require higher Procurement approval authority. | - Execute commitments within delegated approval authority. | - Direct negotiations and prepare proposed negotiated plan in the commitment and resolution of commercial conditions of subcontracts and purchases when such action is agreed as necessary. | - Ensure the completion of own workload while mentoring, training, developing and assisting teammates. | - Coordinate and monitor the acquisition strategy for major service and acquisitions, including the development of the overall strategy for managing the acquisition as needed. | - Expert in cradle to grave execution primarily with services and commodity procurements. | - An effective communicator who keeps all stakeholders informed of status regularly while building meaningful partnerships beyond individual procurement actions. | - Work with management, the team leader will effectively assess team member strengths and weaknesses, helping ensure proper training and mentorship is provided to ensure newly assigned procurement personnel receive appropriate training and development to satisfy job performance criteria. | - Continuously assess the procurement process and proactively present streamlining and gap-closing opportunities to management. | - Be an outstanding negotiator with the ability to develop and execute tactical and strategic cost savings strategies. | - Have a solid working knowledge of formal project management techniques and concepts as this role supports various projects and may serve formally as cost account manager. | - Assist management, as necessary, with assigning work to buyers, analyzing procurement data for reports, training customers/buyers, preparing reports, and assessing/managing buyer performance. | - Perform related work as assigned by supervisor.
The Senior Principal Project Controls Specialist (SPPCS) will act as a team lead to a group of Project Controls Specialists of various levels supporting the Infrastructure Directorate’s civil, utility, and miscellaneous projects throughout the NNSS. This position will report directly to the Project Controls Manager for Construction. The SPPCS will also be responsible for ensuring that all Project Controls functions and processes are followed by team members and that all reporting deadlines are met with quality. The SPPCS shall act as a mentor and coach, assisting team members with their professional growth and achievement of their goals. The SPPCS must be able to lead virtually in addition to in person. | | Key Responsibilities | - Oversight of project planning and development, scheduling, budget support, estimate review, and baseline change management for all responsible projects. | - Implementation of lessons learned and continuous improvement. | - Assure that cost and schedule management, baseline planning and control, risk management, earned value management, variance analysis and reporting and estimate at completion are accurately reflected in project reporting. | - Ensure Earned Value Management process compliance. | - Planning, Scheduling, and Budgeting responsibilities will include: | - Both cost and schedule support as part of a centralized Project Controls organization. | - Develop, maintain, and monitor performance baselines, including the change control process. | - Work with managers and customers to develop a statement of work (WBS; Dictionary, objectives, assumptions, and deliverables), resource estimate, and a baseline schedule for the project. | - Track project progress and analyzes project resource usage and makes necessary recommendations for correction. | - Maintain project forecast schedules, perform and analyze schedule health assessments. | - Lead WBS Development and schedule development workshops. | - Incorporate project milestones into project schedule(s). | - Develop and maintain Primavera P6 schedules using scope defined in the project WBS; to include full loading of resource requirements and integration with the Cobra performance-reporting database. | - Prepare and distribute proper Work Authorizations; ensuring that Work Authorizations are approved prior to execution of project scope. | - Contribute to project estimate development. | - Support out-year Program planning activities. | - Participate in project risk development and monitor the project risk register. | | - Accounting Considerations: | - Review actual cost data to ensure accuracy and provide corrections as necessary. | - Monitor project commitments for accuracy, prepare and manage monthly accruals. | - Prepare and manage project cost transfers. | - Create and monitor use of project charge numbers. | - Allocate and monitor project funding. | | - Analysis and Management Reports: | - Work with Control Account Managers to develop variance analysis and track corrective actions. | - Perform Critical Path and Float analyses and report results to project management. | - Monitor remaining project scope and needed resources to develop accurate Estimate to Complete. | - Conduct project management briefings and prepare reports to reflect program/project status, cost and schedule trends, funding, and project uncertainties. | - Prepare and maintain project baseline budget logs. | - Maintain trend program in support of monthly estimates to complete. | | - Revisions and Data Maintenance: | - Work with project manager to develop and process baseline change requests (BCRs). | - Participate in project surveillances and audits. | - Maintain and monitor management reserve. | | - Facilitate the project management team in all phases of the program life-cycle: initiation, planning, control, and closure. | - Communicate with project team members, managers, and customers to ensure successful completion of project objectives and deliverables. | - Mentor and train junior-level Project Controls Specialists. | - Export, format, and evaluate data to support project deliverables and management needs. | - Work on large and small teams to identify issues and provide viable solutions. | - Learn functionality of new or updated project controls system. | - Manage time and set priorities to successfully complete project deliverables. | - Support program planning and controls initiatives.
The primary role of the Senior Field Engineer is to support the Construction Department during construction activities for Issue for Construction (IFC) design packages of infrastructure projects. This may include construction projects, emerging project issues, providing support for project discovery, project scope development, and support for identifying functional requirements for projects and systems. | | Key Responsibilities | - Participate in walk-downs, generate sketches, help develop conceptual designs, evaluate existing systems, and generate and/or review functional requirement documents. | - Ensure designs are properly reviewed, executed, installed, tested, and documented in accordance with the latest issued construction documents. | - Review engineering documents for constructibility during various design reviews of 30%, 60%, 90%, and IFC. | - Verify and report on construction installation quantities. | - Interface with Project Engineering to facilitate responses to Requests for Information (RFIs), Field Change Requests (FCRs), and needed design changes. | - Develop redline drawings for incorporation into as-built drawings. | - Prepare, review and approve material requisitions. | - Assist in interpretation of drawings and specifications for field crews and craft supervision. | - May serve as internal Subject Matter Expert with specific engineering discipline. | - Contribute to development of solutions to resolve construction issues. | - Assist in the preparation of work plans and work packages.
The primary role of the Field Engineer II is to support the Construction Department during construction activities for Issue for Construction (IFC) design packages of infrastructure projects. This may include construction projects, emerging project issues, providing support for project discovery, project scope development, and support for identifying functional requirements for projects and systems. | | Key Responsibilities | - Participate in walk-downs, generate sketches, help develop conceptual designs, evaluate existing systems, and generate and/or review functional requirement documents. | - Ensure designs are properly reviewed, executed, installed, tested, and documented in accordance with the latest issued construction documents. | - Review engineering documents for constructibility during various design reviews of 30%, 60% 90%, and IFC. | - Verify and report on construction installation quantities. | - Interface with Project Engineering to facilitate responses to Requests for Information (RFIs), Field Change Requests (FCRs), and needed design changes. | - Develop redline drawings for incorporation into as-built drawings. | - Prepare, review and approve material requisitions. | - Assist in interpretation of drawings and specifications for field crews and craft supervision. | - May serve as internal Subject Matter Expert with specific engineering discipline. | - Contribute to development of solutions to resolve construction issues. | - Assist in the preparation of work plans and work packages. | - Perform other duties assigned by Management.
The Senior Principal Continuous Improvement Specialist will help support the Procurement Manager on all projects pertaining to strategy and new initiatives that involves critical thinking and technical challenging areas. | | Key Responsibilities | - Lead and facilitate continuous improvement initiatives and projects at the enterprise and directorate levels. | - Consolidate portfolio management/procurement forecast input from internal customers and analyze needs/trends to support strategic sourcing and analyze to ensure staffing levels are adequate to support work volume. | - Lead collaborative team discussions on open improvement and corrective actions and presents status to Supply Chain management and other key stakeholders. | - Effectively use communication skills in executing responsibilities. | - Provide guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on financial, business, or process-related topics. | - Provide mechanisms to capture baseline data and data after improvements are made. | - Perform critical thinking and problem solving - evaluating alternatives and identifies solutions using systematic, multi-step approaches. Develop innovative solutions that improve project performance and uses cost-benefit analyses in decision-making. | - Conduct analysis of business information systems using applied knowledge and principals (e.g., Systems approach or Six Sigma methodology) and creates solutions to resolve problems. | - May establish and manage small teams (including sub-contractors) to coordinate project tasks, such as development, testing and end-user training. | - Collect, assemble and analyze requirements to meet the needs of the organization. | - Meet with process owners and team members to ensure all requirements are met and makes recommendations for improvements. | - Possess an extensive experience with Sub-contact Technical Representative programs including meticulous understanding of project requirements, industry standards, and regulatory compliance. | - Understand craft program frameworks, guidelines, and processes that intricately consider the nuanced tech aspects of subcontractor oversite, ensuring alignment with project objectives and quality expectations. | - Apply understanding of technical specifications, project intricacies, and industry nuances to navigate challenges effectively, ensuring that the program operates seamlessly and delivers optimal outcomes. | - Provide robust support to Subcontract Technical Representatives (STRs) within the construction procurement team. | - Implement a program for seamless coordination between the construction team, project, and subcontractors. | - Emphasize technical compliance with industry standards, regulations, and project specifications. | - Establish effective quality assurance measures to uphold the highest standards in technical work. | - Enable STRs to ensure quality in subcontracted technical tasks. | - Risk Management Strategies: Develop strategies for proactive risk management. | - Empower STRs to anticipate and address potential technical challenges. | - Foster transparent channels for communication and collaboration. | - Promptly resolve technical issues and keep all stakeholders aligned. | - Implement robust documentation processes. | - Aid STRs in recording technical specifications, monitoring progress, and facilitating effective communication with the construction procurement team. | - Encourage STRs to conduct post-project reviews and implement lessons learned for future project optimization. | - Ensure technical terms within subcontract agreements are clearly defined, comprehended, and adhered to. | - Provide core oversight for contractual compliance. | - Thorough gap analysis identify discrepancies between current performance and desired goals. | - Assist in designing and implementing gap analysis methodologies, enabling a clear understanding of where the program falls short and what improvements are needed. | - Identifying the root causes behind program shortfalls to address underlying issues. Through systematic analysis, help uncover the root causes of shortfalls, enabling the development of targeted solutions rather than merely addressing symptom | - Apply design thinking principles to create innovative solutions for program enhancement. Facilitate design thinking workshops and methodologies, encouraging collaborative problem-solving to develop creative and effective solutions for program shortfalls. | - Establish effective feedback loops to capture insights from stakeholders and end-users. Design and implement feedback mechanisms that enable continuous input, ensuring that the program remains adaptable and responsive to evolving needs. | - Compare program performance against industry benchmarks and best practices. Through benchmarking efforts, the specialist will help identify areas where the program can learn from external successes and implement strategies to bridge performance shortfalls. | - Develop relevant and measurable metrics to track program performance. The specialist collaborates with program stakeholders to design and implement metrics that provide a clear understanding of shortfalls and progress over time. | - Perform other duties assigned by Management.
Reporting to the Manager of Asset & Material Management Department and daily to the Los Alamos Facility Support Manager at Mission Support and Test Services at Los Alamos Operations (LAO) to support receiving, shipping, distribution, property control activities, excess and assist with facility needs. The reporting location will be Los Alamos New Mexico. | | Key Responsibilities | - LAO and Sandia Operations (SO) Property Center Representative (PCR) task include; maintain custodian assignment, accurate locations, Sensitive Receipts, closing open requests, etc. | - Schedules and conducts property inventories of Sensitive, Equipment, and High Risk. | - Prepares shipping documents for hazardous and non-hazardous materials in accordance with DOT regulations including use of forklift and all related forklift maintenance as well as oversight of alternate forklift operator. Maintain lifting and rigging equipment. | - Barcode tagging and marking of U.S. Govt Property. | - Perform Warehouse Operations function tasks of receiving, distribution and shipping activities. | - Assist with day-to-day Asset and Material Management functions and resolve property issues. | - Responsible for tracking and ensuring property assigned to terminating employees is reassigned in a timely manner. | - Participates and assist with the Property Management Walk-through Program. | - Coordinates disposal of excess property and material through NNSS, LANL, or local recycling. | - Supports various Supply Chain, Asset & Material Management for LAO & SO activities as directed by management. | - Provide oversight to the Sandia Operations PCR, including periodic trips to the Sandia Office. | - LAO and SO Chemical Program Custodian task include; online chemical inventory and maintaining SDS. | - LAO and SO Gas Coordinator task include; maintaining PO agreement with LANL, processing compresses gas, liquid nitrogen and potable alcohol requests, and store according to regulations. | - LAO and SO GSA Vehicle Coordinator. | - Coordinate large item moves that require special material handling equipment. | - Support LAO Security, Facility Maintenance, snow removal and associated equipment, and Safety Programs. | - EAT Member. | - AHJ Field Representative for inspecting inbound electrical items. | - Leads and participates in continuous improvement projects. | - Implement “Best Practices” for operations. | - Perform related work as assigned by supervisor/manager.
Nevada National Security Sites is actively looking for Manager I to serve as a Deputy Engineering Manager at our PULSE (Principal Underground Laboratory for Subcritical Experiments) Complex. The PULSE Complex is an underground nuclear facility located within the Forward Areas of the Nevada National Security Site that supports Subcritical Experiments performed by the Nuclear Weapons Laboratories. This position reports to the PULSE Engineering Manager and is responsible for management of PULSE engineers and engineering activities. | | Key Responsibilities | - Understand and maintain the assigned systems design requirements per the PULSE Documented Safety Analysis. | - Ensure that design output documents appropriately reflect the design basis and required functional classification of the assigned PULSE Structures, Systems and Components (SSCs). | - Assure that the design requirements and design basis are fully identified and in a form compatible to maintain and control the design basis. | - Authorize facility Configuration Management changes and manage the configuration of assigned PULSE facility systems. | - Provide technical support in the areas of construction, maintenance, and nuclear operations. | - Coordinate with engineers, project managers, and maintenance personnel to ensure proper testing and documentation is developed to support component and system specifications, functions, and operability. | - Develop and maintain engineering documents, reports, and correspondence to enable business activity. | - Must effectively communicate to confer and gather information from subject matter experts for inclusion into specifications to ensure technical accuracy and completeness of the content. | - Perform a wide range of tasks and special assignments that require comprehensive knowledge of engineering processes and procedures with the ability to analyze, interpret, and make recommendations. | - Maintain staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, and developing growth opportunities for employees. | - Maintain a safe, secure, and legal work environment. | - Accomplish staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; developing, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, procedures, and productivity standards. | - Create an environment where employees feel safe to raise issues, empowered to address issues, and supported to resolve issues. | - Demonstrate environment, safety, health, and quality leadership and consistently enforce environment, safety, health, and quality policies and procedures. | - Implement applicable environment, safety, health, and quality requirements; emphasize the safety of each employee, and the protection of equipment and property in area of responsibility. | - Take immediate action to correct reported or observed unacceptable environment, safety, health and quality conditions and/or behaviors. | - Assure that appropriate procedures, training, equipment, warnings, and tools are provided to employees to permit work to be performed safely. | - Effectively interface and communicate with MSTS leadership, National Weapons Lab personnel, Nevada Field Office (NFO), and Defense Nuclear Safety Board (DNFSB) representatives. | - Promote and actively participate in the Mission Support and Test Services (MSTS) safety concept. | - Support and encourage employee participation in MSTS environment, safety, health, and quality initiatives.
The Engineering Department is establishing an On-Site Design Engineering team to be based in Mercury, NV and needs an individual that has an excellent working knowledge of AutoCAD design software. This team will be responsible for supporting low-rigor projects, emerging project issues, providing support for project discovery, project scope development, support for identifying functional requirements for projects and systems, and providing support to the Construction Department. | | Key Responsibilities | - Participate on walk-downs, generate sketches, help develop conceptual designs, evaluate existing systems with system owners, and generate and/or review functional requirements documents. | - Utilize AutoCAD specifically to prepare engineering drawings, sketches, and figures. | - Utilize Autodesk CAD software products to create design drawings for construction projects, and the eventual creation and modification of 3D models of systems and structures used to create the design drawings. | - Prepare and check engineering design documents, including drawings, sketches, and change notices. | - Work directly with engineers and project engineers to create design packages. | - Coordinate with multiple engineering disciplines, facility managers, project managers, and project engineers. | - Work on multiple projects maintaining a high level of detail while adapting to project demands. | - Build team relationships with technical and other company organizations including Management. | - Attend Tier 1 staff meetings and be an active participant in the discussions. | - Complete engineering tasks as described in the engineering work plans. | - Serve as a consultant to less experienced technologists. | - Provide practical advice on implementation of solutions for organizational goals. | - Perform other duties assigned by Management.
In this role as Principal Emergency Response Specialist, you will serve as the Exercise Coordinator for nuclear and/or non-nuclear facilities/activities on the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS), North Las Vegas Facility (NLVF) and other Outlying locations. | | Key Responsibilities | - Ensure exercises are conducted in accordance with DOE Order 473.2A, Protective Force Operations, DOE O 470.4B, Safeguards and Security Programs, DOE O 151.1D, Comprehensive Emergency Management Program and other applicable directives. | - Lead, develop and conduct Force on Force (FOF) exercises to facilitate assessment of all the elements employed in response to Design Based Threats (DBT) and site-specific threats. The FOF must include both the exterior and interior facility response, e.g., exterior fight and recapture or recovery activities, as applicable. | - Lead and conduct all aspects of exercise design, planning, coordination, scheduling, and conduct consistent with Department of Energy and Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program concepts and principles for facility and site-level exercises at various NNSS facilities/activities. | - Lead, conduct, and maintain Limited Scope Performance Tests (LSPTs) and document results which are provided to the Technical Analysis Section. | - Lead, develop and review detailed FOF and emergency management exercise After Action Reports in accordance with applicable directives. | - Represent the Exercise Program at meetings and consultations with client representatives, governmental security agencies, and industry associates. | - Ensure implementation and maintenance of provisions for the safekeeping of internal security data, assists in administering security programs for internal security data, assists in administering security programs to meet regulatory requirements specified by government contracts, and protects client or Mission Support and Test Services LLC proprietary information. | - Advise management of exercise program status and makes recommendations on organization and staffing requirements. | - Interface with DOE/NNSA Nevada Field Office (NFO) Subject Matter Experts, individual Facility Managers and NFO Facility Representatives involving any and related activities and documentation in keeping with facility and site preparedness programs. | - Perform other duties assigned by Management.
The Senior Director, Global Security, reports to the Vice President, Chief Operations Officer and provides overall leadership for nonproliferation, counter proliferation, counterterrorism, nuclear incident response, emergency communications, research and development and other global security activities at the Nevada National Security Sites (NNSS) for Mission Support and Test Services (MSTS). Global Security is comprised of the following functions: DOE/NNSA and other government agency program management, field operations, research and development, development of novel solutions and mission facilities management. MSTS manages and operates the NNSS for the Department of Energy (DOE). NNSS has offices across the country, including Southern Nevada; Santa Barbara and Livermore, California; Washington, D.C.; and Albuquerque and Los Alamos, New Mexico. | | Serves as the primary contact for NNSS portfolios spanning radiological and other hazardous and non-nuclear facility operations, aviation operations, global deployments, secure communications, experimentation, design/development, and effective use of experimental diagnostics. Partners with internal peer organizations, the Nevada Field Office (NFO), NNSA program organization, National Weapons Laboratories, government and military agencies, regulators, and other stakeholders to effectively deliver all mission goals. | | Position resides in Las Vegas, Nevada with frequent business travel to support customer and stakeholder engagement as well as mission delivery. This position is not eligible for full-time remote work. | | Key Responsibilities | - Primary authority and customer interface for NNSA nonproliferation, emergency communications, nuclear response, and counter proliferation/counterterrorism programs. Establish, champion, and deliver effective objectives, policies, and procedures for radiological and high-hazard operations at NNSS which attract laboratory and global security users to the Site. | - Ensure that the link between Other Government Agencies (OGA) missions and the NNSA mission is clear and focused. | - Develop and execute integrated long-range programs, plans, and budgets that align with enterprise strategic objectives. | - Anticipate and position portfolios for expanded mission assignments through forward-looking initiatives to right-size organizations, increase value through optimized cost performance, and assure robust execution of baseline schedules. | - Lead a coordinated approach to deliver customer and stakeholder strategic initiatives for programs, projects, and activities under their purview. | - Assure portfolio leadership teams are focused on stakeholder management, rigorous program management and driving agility in mission readiness. | - Lead and assure integrated risk management across multiple programs and appropriate escalation of issues and mitigations strategies upward through portfolio leadership and ultimately integrated at the enterprise level. | - Integrate with enterprise functional organizations to assure adequate engagement to develop and execute mission schedules, cost and budget profiles, and robust risk management plans. | - Active engagement with supporting functions to assure that technology, required competencies, and skills are matured to a level of readiness to support mission deliverables. | - Identify and assure investment priorities are executed to deliver strategic mission opportunities. | - Serve as an official Company representative to partners, clients, industry groups, representatives of government and regulatory agencies, and the public in the community. | - Clearly communicate expectations and accountabilities of direct report leaders and actively engage in regular performance reviews. | - Must embrace and model the Company values and expected behaviors with a commitment to operational excellence. | - Create an environment where employees feel safe to raise issues, empowered to address issues, and supported to resolve issues. | | Key Initiatives to Deliver | - Cultivate portfolio of global security programs consistent with the maturing, expanding and increased complexity of the NNSS mission. | - Implement enhanced, standardized, and integrated program management processes across the Global Security portfolios and leadership teams. | - Develop and implement strategic plan for growth aligning resource plans and facility operations. | - Develop and implement robust succession plan for key leadership positions that deliver best-in-class performance. | - Management of complex programs ranging from $500k-$300M. | -
MSTS is seeking a Senior Project Controls Specialist to develop, maintain, and monitor multi-year performance measurement baselines, including cost and schedule, baseline management and change control, risk management, subcontract management, earned value management, variance analysis, and estimate at completion as assigned by the Project Controls Manager to support the Special Technologies Laboratory in Santa Barbara, CA. | | Key Responsibilities | - Responsibilities will include both cost and schedule support as part of a centralized Project Controls organization. | - Support the development and execution of project and functional planning. | - Develop, maintain, and monitor performance baselines, including the change control process. | - May serve as an assistant to a Project Manager. | - Export, format, and evaluate data to support project deliverables and management needs. | - Work on large and small teams to identify issues and provide viable solutions. | - Develop and implement project Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). | - Ensure proper Work Authorizations are approved prior to execution of project scope. | - Develop and maintain Primavera P6 schedules to include full loading of resource requirements and integration with the Cobra performance-reporting database. | - Ensure Earned Value Management (EVM) process compliance. | - Contribute to project estimate development and incorporation into the P6 schedule. | - Learn functionality of new or updated project controls system. | - Create and monitor use of project charge numbers. | - Work with project manager to develop and process baseline change requests (BCRs). | - Allocate and monitor project funding. | - Work with Control Account Managers to develop variance analysis and track corrective actions. | - Work with subject matter experts (SMEs) and project stakeholders to document scope. | - Participate in project surveillances and audits. | - Develop P6 schedule activities using scope defined in the project WBS. | - Perform Critical Path and Float analyses and report results to project management. | - Monitor remaining project scope and needed resources to develop accurate Estimate to Complete. | - Perform other duties assigned by Management.
The Information Technology department is looking for an RF, Microwave, and Surveillance Technician II to join our team. | | Key Responsibilities | - Program and configure 2-way LMR radios including Harris and Motorola models. | - Climb towers and install cables, antennas, and video cameras. | - Install, test, maintain, and repair two-way radio systems and equipment including portable and mobile radios, base stations, trunked radio networks, repeaters, antenna systems, microwave links, dispatch consoles, and associated telecom equipment. | - Communicate with internal personnel, outside service personnel, equipment vendors and other government agencies to coordinate service requests, work orders, equipment evaluations, technical advice, and issues regarding radio services. | - Install and maintain DC power distribution panels, DC power plants, battery backup systems, and other forms of uninterruptible power supplies. | - Maintain, update, and upgrade customer-serviceable radio and microwave hardware, firmware, and software. | - Install, test, and repair coax, helix, and other RF cabling. | - Test, analyze, and diagnose radio systems to optimize and repair service. | - Manage, administer, and update radio server core devices and systems. | - Prepare and maintain detailed documentation of network configurations and cabling layouts, hardware equipment, etc. | - Survey outdoor cabling infrastructure, analyze engineering drawings, and design pathways to deliver analog and digital services between buildings. | - Perform other duties assigned by Management.
The Principal Facilities Specialist will support activities at the Area 12 Tunnel Complex Facilities and report directly to the A12 Manager. Assigned facilities may include one or more of the following types of facilities: administrative, industrial, radiological, balance of plant real estate, emergency response training venue, and research, development and evaluation test beds. | | Key Responsibilities | - Principal contact for the day-to-day facility operations in the Area 12 Complex. | - Create and revise work authorization documents ensuring safe mission execution, and conduct management self-assessments. | - Synchronize all work activities conducted within the boundaries of the facility and infrastructure, asset planning and stewardship, and sustainability. | - Manage the maintenance and operating budget for all facilities in portfolio. | - Create strategic plan for facilities, planning and managing fiscal targets and schedules. | - Furnish technical suggestions and advice on alterations and improvements to physical facilities, maintenance and repair work, and operating services. | - Assist in the development of preventative and corrective maintenance program. | - Assist in negotiations with architects, engineers, and contractors. | - Assist in planning and coordination of comprehensive program for the operation, maintenance and repair of facilities and appurtenant structures. | - Inspect buildings and/or grounds to identify and recommend repairs needed. | - From time to time, may be required to make engineering decisions in emergencies without engineering review. | - Conduct space validation facility inspections. | - Provide project management support for projects under construction, including coordination with procurement, subcontractors, construction, engineering design, and Site Services management. | - Perform various support functions in the planning process to determine maintenance long range costs, get field data in support of proposed projects, and to help find alternative solutions that will affect cost and/or energy savings overall. | - Prepare and approve Real Estate Operations Permits (REOP). | - Prepare and approve National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) permits. | - Prepare reports and recommendations for management on the technical and administrative aspects of the Facilities program. | - Perform other duties assigned by Management.