Key Responsibilities | - Support the LAO Optical Engineering and Dynamic Experiments Team (X142) in diagnostic instrumentation development and experimental physics field support activities. | - Contributes to design, fabrication, assembly, and characterization of diagnostic systems based on optical and imaging technologies as well as laser based technologies. | - Provide field support for weapons physics experiments and small-scale focused experiments conducted at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) and at Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories. | - May serve as a subject matter expert in science and engineering field to other colleagues and customers. | - Work as part of a small diagnostic development team. | - Develops devise appropriate test plans. | - Support system development with performance testing, data analysis and documentation. | - Assist in verifying system qualifications in terms performance in meeting requirements, evaluating subcomponent parts such as mechanical assemblies, optical designs, imaging performance, data recording requirements, instrumentation control, and data analysis. | - Work effectively as an independent researcher as well as function inclusively and with integrity in a team environment. | - Contributes to developing solutions of challenging and complex technical problems. | - May work within project teams having well-defined work scope and deliverables. | - Good communicator, willing and able to present results successfully to stakeholders and as a scientist/engineering professional. | - System deployment and field support to off-site experimental facilities. Some travel to such locations will be required. | - Accept individual responsibility and accountability for environment, safety, health, and quality processes within personal control, personal safety, and the safety of co-workers. | - Comply with established regulations and procedures for environment, safety, health, and quality and perform duties in a way that will not cause personal danger, endanger other individuals, or violate environment, safety, health, and quality regulations. | - Promptly correct or report any hazard or potential hazard to supervision. Understand the principles associated with the MSTS safety concept | - Participate in and embrace MSTS environment, safety, health, and quality initiatives.
Key Responsibilities | - Work as a member of a small team supporting engineers, scientists, and senior technicians in building, testing, and fielding complex diagnostic systems. | - Will utilize the following skills: analog and digital electronics, mechanical design and fabrication technologies, circuit board assembly and troubleshooting, instrumentation chassis assembly and construction, soldering techniques and workmanship standards. | - Must have experience in the use of basic and powered hand tools, must have a working knowledge of a variety of laboratory instrumentation such as digitizing storage oscilloscopes, digital delay generators, high-bandwidth analog and digital fiber links, and other electronic test and measurement equipment, a working knowledge of computer programming is desirable. | - Candidate will be mentored and work under the direct supervision of experienced engineers, scientists, and technicians as part of a team developing and fielding a variety of unique and complex diagnostic systems. | - Work collaboratively with a diverse group of scientists, engineers, and technicians developing innovative solutions to customer-driven applied R&D. | - Accept individual responsibility and accountability for environment, safety, health, and quality processes within personal control, personal safety, and the safety of co-workers. | - Comply with established regulations and procedures for environment, safety, health, and quality and perform duties in a way that will not cause personal danger, endanger other individuals, or violate environment, safety, health, and quality regulations. | - Promptly correct or report any hazard or potential hazard to supervision. Understand the principles associated with the MSTS safety concept. | - Participate in and embrace MSTS environment, safety, health, and quality initiatives.
THIS IS A PIPELINE REQUISITION TO IDENTIFY QUALIFIED EXTERNAL CANDIDATES FOR POTENTIAL FUTURE JOB OPPORTUNITIES. | | We are looking for qualified and motivated students that just graduated or will be graduating in an engineering program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) in the next year. | | • Contributes to solutions of assignment-related problems and issues with a limited scope and of basic complexity, using a well-defined set of technologies. Solutions use established basic standards, practices and procedures as well as technical knowledge to address problems and complete tasks. Focus is on applying academic knowledge to the work environment and developing good work/team habits. Solutions may require evaluation of standards and processes. | • Supports field programs and designs using pre-determined principles and practices. | • May select and implement computer applications for their field. | • Contributes to designs, strategies, reports and technical proposals. | • Assists in performing design and technical analysis activities using prescribed codes and standards, computer software, and generally accepted best management practices. | • Minimally/occasionally coordinates discipline information with other departments within the company and with outside vendors. Works with outside contacts as required to obtain relevant information.
THIS IS A PIPELINE REQUISITION TO IDENTIFY QUALIFIED EXTERNAL CANDIDATES FOR POTENTIAL FUTURE JOB OPPORTUNITIES. | | We are looking for qualified and motivated students that just graduated or will be graduating in a calculus-based Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) field in the next year. | | • Contributes 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 scientists. Solutions use established basic standards, practices and procedures as well as technical knowledge to address problems and complete tasks. Focus is on applying academic knowledge to the work environment and developing good work/team-habits. | • Defines specifications for procurements and initiates purchase requests. | • Follows established technical procedures and instructions. | • Assists in compiling and summarizing scientific data. Utilizes technology solutions for both experimental and operational needs. | • Prepares reports. Contributes to proposals. | • Accept individual responsibility and accountability.
Principal Scientist | - Develop methods and techniques for acquiring, analyzing, and processing radiological data. | - Prepare a variety of technical and non-technical reports, including procedures and plans. | - Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) orders, and corporate requirements. | - Consult with supervisors and departmental representatives on radiological control matters to ensure work procedures comply with Mission Support and Test Services, LLC (MSTS) core processes, and governmental requirements. | - Perform radiological engineering analyses and calculations using industry available software. | - Encouraged development and publishing in industry-standard journals. | - Mentor Scientist and Engineering staff and technical management in radiological methods, processes, and best practices. | - Apply knowledge and ingenuity to implement cutting edge, pioneering solutions in the technical arena. | - Attend staff meetings, and planning and scheduling meetings relevant to radiological controls and engineering issues. | - Conduct of management assessments. | - Draft work packages and proposed test plans to ensure necessary requirements are incorporated into work control. | - Perform other duties as assigned by the Supervisor. | Senior Principal Scientist | In addition to the responsibilities of the Principal Scientist position, responsibilities for the Senior Principal Scientist also include: | - Serve as Technical Lead for major projects and startups. | - Serve as an expert advisor to other personnel and management on difficult and critical technical issues. | - Initiate collaboration with partners external to MSTS. | - Complete special projects to meet internal and external customer expectations. | - In addition to fulfilling basic ESH&Q obligations: | - Must assure that all aspects of safety have been addressed in design and execution of work. | - Work may affect public health and safety. | - May lead safety planning for high hazard potential projects. | - May be designated Work Planner for other departments | - May help formulate ESH&Q guidelines
We have multiple openings for Mechanical Designers to participate in new and ongoing projects that are aligned with the vision, strategies, and Business Processes of Livermore Operations, for the National Security Enterprise (NSE). You will report to the Livermore Operations Design Supervisor and be located in Livermore, California. They will work directly with Engineers and Designers as an integral member of growing the organizations technical abilities. | | Key Responsibilities – (Principal Technologist) | - Plans and conducts mechanical design/drafting work requiring judgment in the evaluation, selection, application, and modification of standard techniques, guidelines, procedures, and criteria. | - Prepares technical documents such as: engineering, manufacturing, and inspection drawings, operational manuals, bill of materials, etc. as required. | - Mechanical design support for product concepts received from Engineering, through detailed designs including 3D CAD modeling and mechanical drawings. | - Generates Engineering Change Order (ECOs) and all supporting documentation for drawing release. | - Basic knowledge of welding, machining, manufacturing and procurement principles, policies, and procedures. | - Ability to accurately track project elements and write status of work reports as required to project and line managers. | - Must be capable of handling multiple projects simultaneously. | - Basic knowledge of Calculating dimensional values and tolerance analysis of mating parts | - Participate in concept brainstorming sessions, conceptual design reviews, meetings, email correspondence, procurement, and manufacturing as needed. | Key Responsibilities – (Master Technologist) | - Plans and conducts mechanical design work requiring judgment in the evaluation, selection, application, adaptation, and modification of standard techniques, guidelines, procedures, and criteria. | - Plans, guides, or prepares technical documents such as: engineering, manufacturing, and inspection drawings, operational manuals, bill of materials, etc. as required. | - Mechanical design support ranging from early product concepts through detailed designs including appropriate tooling, 3D CAD modeling and mechanical drawings. | - Work closely with engineers and physicists to design and incorporate new methodologies, materials, fixtures, tooling, processes and products in the development process. | - Guides or generates ECO creation and all supporting documentation for drawing release. | - Extensive knowledge of welding, machining, manufacturing and procurement principles, policies, and procedures. | - Must be capable of handling multiple projects simultaneously. | - Calculate dimensional values and tolerance analysis of mating parts as required and present calculations when needed. | - Participate and lead discussions on concept brainstorming sessions, conceptual design reviews, meetings, email correspondence, procurement, and manufacturing as needed. |
As part of the U1a Complex team, the Shift Operations Manager (SOM) will maintain overall command and control of the U1a Complex (“the facility”) during applicable shifts. The facility nuclear safety basis includes operational scenarios that involve significant risks to the facility worker and to the public. In this role, the SOM will report to the U1a Complex Operations Manager and will support the U1a Complex Facility Manager. This position supports the facility’s mission of performing Subcritical Experiments as part of the Stockpile Stewardship Program. | | Key Responsibilities | - The SOM is highly trained to avoid dangers and is responsible for immediately mitigating potential hazards. | - The SOM assumes the role of Local Emergency Director (LED) who directs emergency actions for the facility and is responsible for maintaining the facility logbook. | - Implement the requirements contained in DOE Orders including Conduct of Operations. Ensures that all employees reporting to this position are informed about the standards of operation of a nuclear facility | - Responsible areas include shift turnover, operator routines and rounds, communication, control of equipment and system status, control area activities, independent verifications, procedure compliance, and on the job training. | - Ensure events are properly reported to management and DOE in a timely manner. Also ensures management reviews are conducted with appropriate personnel in case of an issue or facility event. | - Ensure completion of shift rounds and routines assigned to the shift. Ensure proper follow up to equipment conditions if found to be in abnormal state while rounds and routines are being conducted. | - Ensures the shift crew reviews changes to facility procedures, facility modifications, Technical Safety Requirements and the Documented Safety Analysis. | - Ensures Surveillance Requirements, In-Process Inspections and Specific Administrative Controls specified in the TSR are performed in accordance with applicable facility procedures and/or SCE checklists. | - Maintain overall authority for the control, administration and auditing of the Hazardous Energy Control Program at the facility and the installed facility Temporary Modifications in accordance with MSTS procedures. | - Maintain facility housekeeping and communicate importance of good housekeeping attitude to facility workers. | - Ensure safety of personnel in the facility by maintaining a working knowledge and enforcement of regulatory requirements. | - Conduct Safety Observations, safety audits and observe operator rounds, and help ensure deficiencies are corrected in a timely manner. | - Ensure the shift is properly staffed and trained to perform operational and emergency activities during the shift. | - Ensure assigned personnel are fit for duty and qualified to perform assigned duties and tasks in accordance with facility training program requirements. | - Review each operator’s knowledge before qualifying an operator for a task. | - Serve as trainer/evaluator for the On-Shift Training Evaluation Program. | - Lead abnormal drills at the U1a Complex. | - Interface directly with DOE Facility Representatives on items related to all aspects of facility operations and safety. Direct activities of Operations, Nuclear Engineering, Radiological Controls, Fire Protection, Work Control, Quality Assurance, and Industrial Hygiene to accomplish the objectives of the facility. | - Perform other duties assigned by Management. | - Position may require shift and overtime work. |
Serve as a Senior Nuclear Facilities Operations Specialist to coordinate and complete critical support activities at the U1a Complex on the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). As an integral part of our U1a Complex team, you will collaborate with external and internal partners to attain desired success states and sustain operations. | - Facilitate and coordinate support with Laboratory, Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, and Construction personnel at the U1a Complex; interact with other MSTS organizations (e.g., Design Engineering, Industrial Hygiene, Radiological Controls, Safety, Training, etc.), as well as DOE personnel and external customers. | - Access U1a Complex buildings and tunnels to conduct walk-downs, inspections, and site-specific tours. Conduct and document Operator Rounds inspections for surface/underground buildings, structures, and equipment, in accordance with Conduct of Operations requirements. | - Support facility management assessments and observations, including development of assessment plans and reports, and coordination with the MSTS issues management process (caWeb) to ensure that U1a Complex issues are effectively identified, addressed, tracked, and closed. | - Lead development/revision and publication of U1a Complex documents, including Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Abnormal Operations Procedures (AOPs), plans, policies, organizational procedures, primary and secondary Real Estate Operations Permits (REOPs), and other authorization basis documents supporting Nuclear Weapons Laboratory (NWL) Subcritical Experiments (SCEs). | - Coordinate U1a Complex abnormal events/emergency preparedness drills and exercises and, when required, act as the Local Emergency Director and/or Emergency Action Team member at the U1a Complex.
Principal Scientist | - Develop methods and techniques for acquiring, analyzing, and processing radiological data. | - Prepare a variety of technical and non-technical reports, including procedures and plans. | - Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) orders, and corporate requirements. | - Consult with supervisors and departmental representatives on radiological control matters to ensure work procedures comply with Mission Support and Test Services, LLC (MSTS) core processes, and governmental requirements. | - Perform radiological engineering analyses and calculations using industry available software. | - Encouraged development and publishing in industry-standard journals. | - Mentor Scientist and Engineering staff and technical management in radiological methods, processes, and best practices. | - Apply knowledge and ingenuity to implement cutting edge, pioneering solutions in the technical arena. | - Attend staff meetings, and planning and scheduling meetings relevant to radiological controls and engineering issues. | - Conduct of management assessments. | - Draft work packages and proposed test plans to ensure necessary requirements are incorporated into work control. | - Perform other duties as assigned by the Supervisor. | Senior Principal Scientist | In addition to the responsibilities of the Principal Scientist position, responsibilities for the Senior Principal Scientist also include: | - Serve as Technical Lead for major projects and startups. | - Serve as an expert advisor to other personnel and management on difficult and critical technical issues. | - Initiate collaboration with partners external to MSTS. | - Complete special projects to meet internal and external customer expectations. | - In addition to fulfilling basic ESH&Q obligations: | - Must assure that all aspects of safety have been addressed in design and execution of work. | - Work may affect public health and safety. | - May lead safety planning for high hazard potential projects. | - May be designated Work Planner for other departments | - May help formulate ESH&Q guidelines
The primary role of Scheduler is to schedule work on approved Activity Level Work Documents (ALWDs) (i.e. work packages) to support Construction projects, maintenance (preventive, corrective, and predictive), and services. They schedule according to the priorities of the assigned executing organization. | | Key Responsibilities | - Create and execute weekly work schedules for maintenance and construction crews, to include the organization and generation of preventive maintenance work packages. | - Conduct daily and weekly scheduling meetings with managers. | - Plan and adjust schedules. | - Carry over unfinished work to next week’s schedules. | - Schedule, coordinate, and expedite work as necessary to ensure contractual requirements and project completion times are met. | - Ensure all required material is on hand prior to scheduling work. | - Work closely with customers and other scheduling groups to identify priorities and job requirements, coordinate access, establish work schedules, and report work progress. | - Schedule work to minimize equipment downtime and customer inconvenience. | - Take part in the Continuous Improvement of Work Control processes and procedures. | - Utilize the scheduling database to provide up to date status reports regarding workload/backlog trends, work completion times, labor utilization, shop performance, and work order status. | - Recommend reporting methods which monitor open work to meet contractual requirements. | - Perform related duties as assigned. | - Promote quality and customer service.
Key Responsibilities | - Provide oversight of training for emergency response; this includes programmatic training requirements for response assets as well as training execution performed by our organization for regional Department of Energy (DOE) responders | - Oversee resource allocation for emergency response events, training, and exercises | - Manage the personnel readiness process for new and existing response personnel | - Create, maintain, and track documentation for deployments and exercises | - Manage deployment logistics for multiple teams | - Maintain staff for the Readiness-Nellis Section by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees | - Develop, coordinate, and enforce systems, policies, procedures and productivity standards | - Accomplish staff results by communicating job expectations | - Monitor and appraise job results | - Coach, counsel, and discipline staff, as required | - Create an environment where employees feel safe to raise issues, empowered to address issues, and supported to resolve issues | - Resolve quality and customer service issues | - Negotiate required support with individual asset program managers and meet deliverables on time and within budget | - Develop innovative solutions that can improve project performance | - Perform related work as provided by manager | - Take immediate action to correct reported or observed unacceptable environment, safety, health, and quality conditions/behaviors | - Must have professional interpersonal skills to appropriately communicate and address issues with senior-level management, Headquarters (HQ) customers, and federal oversight personnel | - Regularly face conflicting and/or challenging deadlines | - Must exhibit professionalism, discretion, and exude a customer service attitude | - Regularly utilize and retrieve information from DOE emergency response data management systems and operational tracking systems | - Perform related work as assigned by their Manager
The work location is at the Nevada National Security Site (located 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada). | | Reports to the Program Planning and Controls organization, but will be matrixed to the Work Management Center Manager in the Nuclear Asset Operations (NAO) Directorate at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) as an Integrated Scheduler. Responsible for developing activity execution schedules that integrate, deconflict, resource load all operations, construction, and maintenance activities at the assigned facility. | - Gathers requisite data from available sources and performs initial schedule load. | - Validates work execution estimates against previously performed similar scopes of work. | - Monitors work preparation progress and available manpower and adjusts draft schedules accordingly. | - Evaluates work status, facility changes, and emergent work for the impact on approved implemented schedules. | - Develops recommended changes to maximize work and project support efficiency. | - Participates in post-execution critiques to aid in continuous improvement of the process. | - Supports the development and execution of project and functional planning. | - Develops, maintains, and monitors performance baselines, including the change control process. | - May serve as an assistant to a Project Manager. | - Performs other work as directed by supervisor.
The Boiler and Pressure Vessel Subject Matter Expert (SME) will be a Mechanical Engineer who has extensive working experience with the requirements of the ASME boiler and Pressure Code (BPVC), Section VIII and additional experience working with Boilers and Pressure Vessels that fall within the scope of Sections I, II, III, IV, V, VI, and VIII of the ASME BPVC. Knowledge and practical application of these sections is a key responsibility for this position. | | Key Responsibilities | | • Act as the SME for standard and non-standard boiler and pressure vessels to address program implementation, which will include review of documentation, field observations of designs, modifications, and installation activities for boilers and pressure vessels. | • Assist in establishing, modifying and overseeing company policies and ensuring compliance with boilers and pressure vessel program requirements. | • Identify innovative and cost effective approaches to boiler and pressure vessel safety issues for projects and/or facilities. | • Oversee inspections, testing and maintenance of boilers and pressure vessels and related support systems. | • Conduct technical reviews of drawings, calculations, reports, etc., as required. | • Interface with internal and external customers to prevent and/or mitigate issues. | • Engage in associations, working groups, and boards throughout the DOE community with respect to boilers and pressure vessels. | • Interface with DOE HQ, NNSA/NFO, and other boiler and pressure vessel experts and representatives to meet requirements and objectives. | • Serve as an expert adviser to other personnel and management on boiler and pressure vessel technical issues. | • Provide guidance to senior management regarding strategic development opportunities associated with the boiler and pressure vessel program.
The Supervisor will support the Construction Department in the area of Work Planning and Control (WP&C) and will assist with establishing an integrated scheduling program. | They will be a subject matter expert for WP&C requirements in support of Real Property and Programmatic Equipment, Construction and Subcontracts within the Nuclear and Non-Nuclear Facilities at the NNSS. | | Key Responsibilities | - Must be able to identify trained and qualified WP&C staff to provide support for construction work for the NNSS, North Las Vegas, and other facilities. | - Point of contact for WP&C questions, concerns, improvements and issue resolution. | - Must be able to identify and/or assist in the development of the Scope of Work to be planned and scheduled. | - Ensure compliance with Nuclear Facility Maintenance WP&C and Conduct of Operations requirements. | - Establish and coordinate activity level work assignments and/or work projects and direct work package planning. | - Assign the prioritization of work orders, and track progress of assigned packages. | - Resolve issues arising from questions/problems encountered during the planning and review process. | - Organize and supervise day-to-day operations of work planners assigned, ensuring that schedules are kept. | - Oversee work performed by planners and schedulers, providing continuous improvement leadership. | - Prepare reports and graphs to illustrate work performed and work forecast. | - Participate in Plan of the Day and Plan of the Week process, and attend weekly Construction Department staff meetings. | - Must be able to electronically or otherwise incorporate all planning data, obtained from the planning software and from verbal communications with project participants, into the overall project plan and schedule. | - Participate in construction-related cost estimates. | - Directly supervise individual contributors, including approving time, conducting performance evaluations, and participating in the recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training of assigned staff. | - Implement and follow company policies, procedures and directives. | - Responsible for working within assigned budget. | - Interact daily with subordinates and frequent interaction with manager.
Reports to the DAF Engineering Manager. Responsible for management of DAF engineers and engineering activities associated with the DAF Process Engineering Group. | | Key Responsibilities | - Understand and maintain the assigned system/process design requirements per the DAF Documented Safety Analysis. | - Ensure that design output documents appropriately reflect the design basis and required functional classification of the assigned DAF Processes and 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 DAF processes and 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.
Serve as a Nuclear Facilities Work Window Coordinator to perform as an intermediary between operations, maintenance, work planning, procurement, engineering, construction, and other support organizations. As an integral part of our Nuclear Asset Operations team, you will collaborate with external and internal partners to attain desired success states and sustain operations at NNSS Nuclear Facilities. | | Key Responsibilities | | Plans, organizes and directs programs and/or processes applicable to Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) nuclear facilities, operations and activities. Duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to: | - Ensure planned operations, maintenance and construction activities can be executed as scheduled during their assigned work execution periods. | - Verify associated work packages have been generated and approved, necessary parts are on hand, special authorizations have been obtained and necessary resources are available. | - Provide feedback to the maintenance and scheduling organizations related to viability of schedules. | - Drive work planning and engineering priorities for activities related to future work execution. | - Interface with procurement organization for parts prioritization and future needs. | - Accept individual responsibility and accountability for environment, safety, health, and quality processes within personal control, personal safety, and the safety of co-workers. Comply with established regulations and procedures for environment, safety, health, and quality and perform duties in a way that will not cause personal danger, endanger other individuals, or violate environment, safety, health, and quality regulations. Promptly correct or report any hazard or potential hazard to supervision. Participate in and embrace MSTS environment, safety, health, and quality initiatives. | -
THIS IS A LIMITED-TERM REGULAR FULL-TIME POSITION. SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE CAN BE EMPLOYED UP TO TWO YEARS, WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF ONE ADDITIONAL YEAR, BASED ON THE ORGANINZATIONS' NEEDS. | | Reporting to the Director of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Programs, within the NNSA Mission Programs Directorate, the postdoctoral researcher will develop scientific and engineering solutions in support of the Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation mission. | | | Key Responsibilities | - Projects will include one or more of the following R&D subject areas: Uranium/Plutonium Production Detection, Weaponization Detection, Radiation Detection, Emergency Response, Safeguards, Nuclear Test Detection, Remote Detection, Data Science, and Nuclear Forensics. | - The postdoctoral researcher will also play an active role in the Site-Directed Research and Development program. | - Supporting scientific role in the development, fielding, and analysis of data from complex measurement systems, with a focus on basic and applied research in nonproliferation. | - Requires active participation in the field with the scientific, technical, and engineering teams, direct interaction with experimental partners from the National Security Laboratories, and independently driven model and algorithm development. | - Will develop relationships with the laboratory partners and experimental operations personnel, also reporting on accomplishments to internal and external stakeholders. | - In addition to supporting nonproliferation projects, will be expected to engage in the Site-Directed Research and Development program. | - This includes publishing scientific results and presenting research developments at professional meetings and conferences and to university partners. | - Any standard MSTS work location will be considered for placement. Work at the NNSS may be required in support of these functions, as well as travel to NNSS remote sites and other DOE National Laboratories.
Graduate Science Interns will work under the direct supervision of a mentor and will be provided with hands-on participation in ongoing projects at one of the most unique experimental sites in the United States, or one of our outlying locations. | | We are looking for qualified and motivated graduate students in: | - Mathematics | - Physics | - Chemistry | - Health Physics | Many student interns return each summer and others work for us part-time year-round while they attend local schools. | | Internships are available in North Las Vegas; at the Nevada National Security Site (65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada); in Los Alamos and Albuquerque, New Mexico; Livermore and Santa Barbara, California; and at the Remote Sensing Laboratories at Nellis Air Force Base or Andrews Air Force Base. | | Please note these important dates for our 2020 MSTS Summer Internship Program: | - August 2019 - Application process opens | - August 2019 - February 2020 - Phone and/or in-person Interviews | - September 2019 - March 2020 - Offers to be made | - May/June 2020 - Summer internship begins | - August 2020 - Summer internship concludes
Graduate Engineering Interns will work under the direct supervision of a mentor and will be provided with hands-on participation in ongoing projects at one of the most unique experimental sites in the United States, or one of our outlying locations. | | We are looking for qualified and motivated graduate students in: | - Electrical Engineering | - Nuclear Engineering | - Mechanical Engineering | - Chemical Engineering | - Fire Protection Engineering | - Software Engineering | | - Physics | Many student interns return each summer and others work for us part-time year-round while they attend local schools. | | Internships are available in North Las Vegas; at the Nevada National Security Site (65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada); in Los Alamos and Albuquerque, New Mexico; Livermore and Santa Barbara, California; and at the Remote Sensing Laboratories at Nellis Air Force Base or Andrews Air Force Base. | | Please note these important dates for our 2020 MSTS Summer Internship Program: | - August 2019 - Application process opens | - August 2019 - February 2020 - Phone and/or in-person Interviews | - September 2019 - March 2020 - Offers to be made | - May/June 2020 - Summer internship begins | - August 2020 - Summer internship concludes
Undergraduate Technology Interns will work under the direct supervision of a mentor and will be provided with hands-on participation in ongoing projects at one of the most unique experimental sites in the United States, or one of our outlying locations. | | We are looking for qualified and motivated students in: | - Engineering Technology (mechanical, electrical, electronics) | - Radiological Technology | Many student interns return each summer and others work for us part-time year-round while they attend local schools. | | Internships are available in North Las Vegas; at the Nevada National Security Site (65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada); in Los Alamos and Albuquerque, New Mexico; Livermore and Santa Barbara, California; and at the Remote Sensing Laboratories at Nellis Air Force Base or Andrews Air Force Base. | | Please note these important dates for our 2020 MSTS Summer Internship Program: | - August 2019 - Application process opens | - August 2019 - February 2020 - Phone and/or in-person Interviews | - September 2019 - March 2020 - Offers to be made | - May/June 2020 - Summer internship begins | - August 2020 - Summer internship concludes