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Posted Date 3 months ago(7/17/2024 4:05 PM)
ID
2024-7587
Location : Location
US-NV-North Las Vegas
Responsibilities (Text Only)
The MSTS GIS Department is seeking outstanding candidates for a GIS Analyst/Developer Position. GIS Services maintains the MSTS Enterprise GIS capability and supports numerous programs/projects across the Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE).  This position entails the design, development, maintenance, administration, and upgrade of GIS products (data, maps, scripts, applications) and systems. |   | Responsibilities | - Devise imaginative, thorough, and practical solutions requiring evaluation of standards and processes. Solutions may be unique. | - Coordinate execution of assigned projects. | - Serve as lead on teams requiring coordination with other teams. Coordinates work with other project team members. | - Assist in researching and developing integration and solution pathways for various enterprise systems, databases, users, and products. | - Leverage built-in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) development tools as well as open-source code to create original/custom database-driven solutions using structured software development methodologies and standard programming languages. | - Be an active member of the MSTS Emergency Response Organization GIS Duty Position. Participate in drills and exercises and respond to real-world events. Support emergency response activities, including rapid development of GIS data and products. | - Maintain a firm understanding of the existing GIS databases, data models, and applications; stay abreast of application and process changes. | - Collect, document, input, verify, and track GIS data and products. | - Prepare/support preparation and perform QA reviews of GIS data reports. | - Develop system, application, and training documents. | - Develop and maintain a firm understanding of existing enterprise database models/structures/processes and related applications. | - Assist in collecting user requirements, researching workflows and data structures, exploring design options, and developing project estimates. | - Assist in developing application upgrade strategies. | - Assist in evaluating and developing solutions to mitigate cyber security vulnerabilities. | - Design and perform quality/anomaly checks on a variety of GIS products. | - Assist in designing, developing, troubleshooting, maintaining/upgrading GIS systems. | - Develop and conduct user training on GIS applications and tools. | - Perform other duties assigned by Management. 
Posted Date 3 months ago(7/17/2024 4:04 PM)
ID
2024-7586
Location : Location
US-NV-North Las Vegas
Responsibilities (Text Only)
The MSTS GIS Department is seeking outstanding candidates for a GIS Analyst/Developer Position. GIS Services maintains the MSTS Enterprise GIS capability and supports numerous programs/projects across the Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE).  This position entails the design, development, maintenance, administration, and upgrade of GIS products (data, maps, scripts, applications) and systems. |   | Responsibilities | - Contribute to solutions of problems and issues with well-defined scope and moderate complexity, utilizing a well-defined set of technologies. Solutions use established standards, practices and procedures as well as technical knowledge to address problems and complete tasks. Solutions may require evaluation of standards and processes. | - Define specifications for procurements and initiates purchase requests.  | - Frequent use and application of established technical standards, principles, theories, concepts, and techniques. | - Assist in the design, development, testing, deployment, documentation, and maintenance of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) desktop, web-based, and mobile applications. | - Leverage built-in GIS development tools as well as open-source code to create original/custom database-driven solutions using structured software development methodologies and standard programming languages. | - Be an active member of the MSTS Emergency Response Organization GIS Duty Position. Participate in drills and exercises and respond to real-world events. Support emergency response activities, including rapid development of GIS data and products. | - Maintain a firm understanding of the existing GIS databases, data models, and applications; stay abreast of application and process changes. | - Collect, document, input, verify, and track GIS data and products. | - Prepare/support preparation of GIS data reports. | - Assist in developing system, application, and user-training documents. | - Assist in maintaining GIS Department systems. | - Mentor less experienced staff in related technical areas.  | - Perform other duties assigned by Management. 
Posted Date 3 months ago(7/8/2024 5:29 PM)
ID
2024-7577
Location : Location
US-NV-Mercury
Responsibilities (Text Only)
Join an innovative team conducting groundbreaking research in defense of our nation. The Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) is seeking outstanding candidates for a Distinguished Engineer for the Global Controls System supporting the Scorpius Accelerator. The Advanced Sources and Detectors (ASD) Project consists of the development of Scorpius, a multiple-pulse, single-axis linear induction accelerator radiographic system. The radiographic system will be used to study the late time stages of implosions involving sub-critical quantities of special nuclear material within the PULSE tunnel complex at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). Scorpius requires a robust control system to operate the machine safely and collect the data needed to execute this important national security mission. The successful candidate will: | - Work with the NNSS Controls Team Lead and the ASD Global Controls (GC) Technical Lead to provide leadership in developing and implementing network architecture and data management system across the radiographic system that is consistent with implementation of machine learning protocols. | Provide leadership in integrating and managing software and in standardization of hardware. | - Work closely with contractors and technical leads for the Accelerator, Injector, Downstream Transport, Solid State Pulsed Power, and Detector subsystems to develop robust and reliable controls system. | - Work with NNSS Controls Team Lead and NNSS Information Technology to ensure the global control system is compliant with cybersecurity requirements. | Collaborate with NNSS Controls Team Lead to develop strategic plans for managing software updates, hardware improvements, and configuration control for both software and hardware. | - Perform as the interface between the NNSS Controls team lead and project leadership by communicating project requirements and ensuring proper implementation. | - Partner with the NNSS Controls Team Lead and ASD GC Technical Lead to support ASD NNSS project management by: | - Providing background information for cost and schedule variance justifications, and developing necessary recovery plans | - Identifying opportunities for new scope and budget, and providing technical descriptions for accompanying proposals | - Providing status updates and forecasts to inform accurate completion estimates | - Preparing necessary information for ASD project review presentations. | | - Frequent travel to Los Alamos and Albuquerque with occasional travel to California (Livermore) is expected.
Posted Date 4 months ago(6/12/2024 10:24 AM)
ID
2024-7570
Location : Location
US-NV-Mercury
Responsibilities (Text Only)
We are looking for an Engineer to perform duties as a facility/system engineer (Mechanical Engineer II) at the Device Assembly Facility (DAF) within the MSTS Stockpile Experimentation & Operations Directorate. The DAF is located within the Forward Areas of the Nevada National Security Site. Facility Engineers are instrumental in ensuring the DAF can execute national-level experiments that ensure the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile remains safe, secure, and effective. |   | Key Responsibilities | - Responsible for maintaining overall cognizance of assigned facility systems, providing systems engineering support for operations and maintenance, and technical support of line management safety responsibilities for ensuring continued system operational readiness. | - Validate physical configuration of assigned systems and maintain and update system documents for Configuration Management (CM). Understand the functions and performance criteria for assigned systems per the Safety Basis, and act as the subject matter expert for assigned systems. | - Conduct or oversee the In-service-Inspection and Technical Surveillance Requirement execution of assigned systems. | - Contribute to solutions of assignment-related problems and issues with a moderate scope and of moderate 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. Solutions may require evaluation of standards and processes. | - Participate in developing field programs and designs using pre-determined principles and practices. | - Select and implement computer applications for their field. | - Prepare or contribute to designs, strategies, reports and technical proposals. | - Perform design and technical analysis activities using prescribed codes and standards, computer software, and generally accepted best management practices. | - Perform frequent coordination of discipline information with other departments within the company and with outside vendors. | - Work with outside vendors as required, obtaining relevant information. | - Develop a working knowledge of codes and standards of other disciplines. | - Coordinate work within their discipline on moderately complex projects. | - Frequently participate as a member of work teams. | - Define specifications for procurements and initiates purchase requests. | - Monitor work of skilled technicians and other support personnel. | - Perform other duties as assigned by Management.
Posted Date 4 months ago(6/25/2024 3:26 PM)
ID
2024-7545
Location : Location
US-NV-North Las Vegas
Responsibilities (Text Only)
The Information Technology Directorate is looking for a high-performing individual to join our team as a Senior Cloud/Infrastructure Analyst.  |   | Key Responsibilities | - Implement cloud computing architecture solutions (with a focus on Azure) that address cloud security and compliance fundamentals, deployment automation and elastic sizing of environments and multi-tenant implementations. | - Create migration plans and migrate on-prem resources and workloads to Azure using infrastructure as code, and other methods, including PowerShell and Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI). | - Configure and administer Entra ID (Azure AD), identity and access management (IAM), RBAC, SSO, Security/Policies/Resource Governing/Azure Key Vault. | - Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues related to cloud functionality, M365, AVD, VMs (Windows, Linux), route tables, custom images, containers, performance, policies, integration and access. | - Enable DevOps development activities and complex development tasks that will involve working with tools such as Docker, Kafka, and container management systems. Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support automated deployment of infrastructure. | - Lead pre-production readiness efforts, POCs, lab testing and knowledge transfer. Provide architectural design diagrams and documentation and assess how to implement technologies into the existing infrastructure. | - Provide expertise in VMware virtualization technologies, including vSphere and vCenter. | - Act as a subject matter expert for Cloud Infrastructure Architecture and Cloud Adoption Frameworks, Well-Architected Framework as it relates to compute, network, storage, and native SaaS/PaaS offerings. | - Maintain overall industry knowledge on the latest trends and technology and demonstrate forward thinking around how technology can support the organizational direction. | - Perform other duties assigned by Management.
Posted Date 3 months ago(7/8/2024 4:41 PM)
ID
2024-7532
Location : Location
US-NV-Mercury
Responsibilities (Text Only)
Key Responsibilities | - Install, configure, troubleshoot, and maintain vacuum systems associated with multiple regions of the Scorpius accelerator. | - Work as part of a team of engineers, physicists, and technologists from the labs and the NNSS to install and operate Scorpius and possibly Z-pinch Experiment Underground System (ZEUS), high-energy x-ray and neutron generating devices, along with associated diagnostics systems and detector systems. | - Collaborate with multiple internal and external organizations to install, align, operate, and commission subsystems of the overall Scorpius accelerator in North Las Vegas and NNSS forward areas. | - Collaborate with outside vendor to operate high voltage pulsers to test and characterize accelerator modules in Area 6 of the NNSS prior to final installation at PULSE. | - 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, DVMs, and oscilloscopes. | - Frequent travel to New Mexico to assemble, test, and align cells and modules of the Scorpius linear induction accelerator ultimately being installed at the Principal Underground Laboratory for Subcritical Experiments (PULSE) at the NNSS. | - Frequent travel to the NNSS forward areas will be required (approximately 30 miles beyond the Mercury gate). | - Perform other duties assigned by Management.
Posted Date 5 months ago(5/15/2024 1:05 PM)
ID
2024-7518
Location : Location
US-CA-Santa Barbara
Responsibilities (Text Only)
The Senior Work Planner will provide support to the Santa Barbara, CA, Special Technologies Lab (STL) Facility Manager. |   | Key Responsibilities | - Develop, monitor, and validate accuracy, and auditing of performance data, reports and other statistical information. | - Performance of Job Walk downs and Job Hazard Analyses. | - Perform screening and binning of work packages. | - Develop and review work packages for the implementation and control of operations, maintenance, and construction work activities within a given facility or area. | - Specific planning duties may be related to mechanical, electrical, chemical and/or radiological equipment, policies, and procedures and may include resolving work restraints and bringing work packages to final closure. | - Maintain databases for performance measurement. | - Prepare, review, and issue corrective maintenance, and/or preventive maintenance work packages in accordance with applicable procedures and regulations. | - Analyze time and material requirements for work activity. | - Prepare material and labor estimates. | - Write systematic instructions for work packages. | - Tracks and expedites established priority of work packages. | - Assist in preparing and/or reviews specific instructions for the isolation, containment or de-energizing various mechanical, physical, electrical, chemical and/or radiological systems according to established procedures and regulations. | - Perform various functional and administrative activities in conjunction with the primary work control/work package development including, but not limited to, permit development, testing requirements, documentation generation, records management, database information management, retrieval and review, and/or training. | - Learn all Company and industry regulatory guidance and governance specific to work control and planning. | - Ensure all work control results, materials, processes, and final products meet quality specifications and completed according to established requirements. | - Perform other duties assigned by Management.
Posted Date 4 months ago(6/10/2024 6:12 PM)
ID
2024-7480
Location : Location
US-NV-Mercury
Responsibilities (Text Only)
Mission Support and Test Services, LLC (MSTS) is seeking a full-time Control System Technician II to work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide diagnostic fielding and development support in a national laboratory environment. The Stockpile Experimentation & Operations (SEO) organization is looking for a highly motivated Control System Technician II to collaborate in the design, assembling, testing, maintaining, and operating of control systems used on experiments conducted at the Principal Underground Laboratory for Subcritical Experiments (PULSE) Complex and other facilities located at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). |   | Key Responsibilities: | - Perform routine work and basic technical skills with specific direction and oversight. | - Assist in the fabrication of control system panels and related hardware. | - Wire instruments and control panels. | - Assist in instrumentation checks and calibrations. | - Assist with control system acceptance tests. | - Perform maintenance, troubleshooting and repair of control systems and related hardware. | - Read and assist in the development of system schematics, wiring diagrams, and other related drawings. | | - Perform other duties assigned by Management.
Posted Date 2 months ago(8/13/2024 12:04 PM)
ID
2024-7441
Location : Location
US-NV-North Las Vegas
Responsibilities (Text Only)
This position will support the Design Engineering Department in North Las Vegas, with periodic site visits required for project support. The Design Engineering Department provides designs for the Infrastructure Directorate which includes NNSS facilities, site planning, reconfiguration of facilities, and supporting corrective action dispositions. The Senior Civil Engineer will be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in their field providing support to Design Engineering. |   | Key Responsibilities | - Plan, organize, and coordinate Civil Engineering and multi-disciplined team/design projects while engaged in the planning, design and construction phases of Engineering projects. | - Generate designs related to water distribution systems; water supply; sewage collection, distribution, and treatment; grading and drainage; site flood studies; and pavement evaluation and design. | - Generate and review the accuracy of design/evaluation calculations and specifications.  | - Formulate solutions to highly complex technical problems of broad scope. Solutions may require resolving conflicting customer expectations and design requirements, utilizing unconventional technology and materials, and cross-disciplinary integration. | - Serve as an internal SME in Civil Engineering. | - Conduct construction document reviews. | - Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams including structural, electrical, and mechanical disciplines as well as architects, surveyors, and construction professionals. | - Serve as lead on teams requiring coordination with other teams. Coordinates work with other project team members.  | - Execute work in a disciplined manner to demonstrate compliance with laws, codes, orders, and MSTS policies and procedures. | - Perform other duties assigned by Management.
Posted Date 5 months ago(4/29/2024 7:34 PM)
ID
2024-7422
Location : Location
US-NV-Mercury
Responsibilities (Text Only)
In this role, the Principal Engineer will help lead Field Engineering in the execution of projects and support the Construction Department during construction activities of infrastructure projects at the NNSS. 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 | - Perform the duties as the Project Field Engineer (PFE) on projects, be responsible for coordinating efforts, and give guidance to less experienced Field Engineers. | - Participate in walk-downs, generate sketches, help develop conceptual designs, evaluate existing systems, and generate and/or review functional requirement documents. | - Execute work in a disciplined manner to demonstrate compliance with laws, codes, orders, and MSTS policies and procedures. | - Ensure designs are properly reviewed, purchased, executed, installed, tested, and documented in accordance with the latest issued construction documents. | - Review engineering documents for constructibility during 30%, 60%, and 90% design reviews and Issued For Construction. | - Verify and report on construction installation quantities. | - Interface with Project Engineering to facilitate responses to Requests for Information, Field Change Requests, and needed design changes. | - Develop red-line 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 an internal Subject Matter Expert for the given engineering discipline. | - May serve as a PFE on line-item projects. | - Mentor Field Engineering staff and other technical personnel in methods, processes, and best practices. | - Serve as an expert advisor to other project personnel, technical staff and management on technical issues. | - Participate in project development by helping define customer needs, developing proposals and planning projects that will produce effective outcomes. | - Assist in the preparation of work plans and work packages. | - Apply past knowledge to develop processes that drive efficiency and accountability. | - Perform other duties assigned by Management.
Posted Date 6 months ago(4/25/2024 2:17 PM)
ID
2024-7413
Location : Location
US-NV-North Las Vegas
Responsibilities (Text Only)
This position will support the Design Engineering Department in North Las Vegas, with periodic site visits required for project support. The Design Engineering Department provides designs for the Infrastructure Directorate which includes NNSS facilities, site planning, reconfiguration of facilities, and supporting corrective action dispositions. The Principal Architect will be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in their field and provide support to Design Engineering. |   | Key Responsibilities | - Work on multiple projects, maintain high level of detail, work well with technical staff, and adapt to project demands. | - Generate, oversee and/or coordinate plans and overall designs for facilities and area planning. | - Ensure that specifications and proposed designs meet applicable federal, state and International Building Code requirements. | - Ensure team processes and deliverables comply with laws, codes, orders, and MSTS policies and procedures. | - Serve as SME for the following: | - | Respond to questions and issues related to facility code compliance. | | - | Resolve conflicting customer expectations and design requirements, utilize unconventional technology and materials, and cross-discipline integration. | | - | Interpret and adapt guidelines for specific cases. | | | - Assist in developing design/construction concepts with the Project Manager, Project Engineer, Facility Management, Construction and support organizations.  | - Meet with customers and facility personnel to determine and document objectives and functional requirements for new and modified facilities. Define customer needs and develop technical proposals. | - Participate in planning phases of projects to determine customer requirements during initial planning discussions.   | - Work with Cost Estimating in the definition of construction practices and procedures.  | - Assist Cost Estimating with the incorporation of construction activities into the cost estimate, work breakdown structure and organizational breakdown structure.  | - Prepare and review procurement and construction specifications, including requests for proposals for new and modified facilities. | - Prepare work statements for complex subcontracts and procurements, evaluate bids, and make recommendation for awards. | - Follow and manage project budget, work plans, costs, consultants and schedule. | - Develop design ideas, diagrams, digital models, presentation materials, and production work for a multitude of project types. | - Coordinate technical drawings, specifications and other contract deliverables with consultants and subcontractors. | - Develop solutions to technical problems including identifying proper SMEs. | - Review submittal, requests for information and other project documentation. | - Coordinate team efforts to complete a project promptly and successfully. | - Perform other duties assigned by Management.
Posted Date 6 months ago(4/18/2024 6:28 PM)
ID
2024-7392
Location : Location
US-NV-North Las Vegas
Responsibilities (Text Only)
The Information Technology Directorate is looking for a high-performing individual to join our team as a Systems Administrator (Infrastructure Analyst II). | KeyResponsibilities | - Manage and maintain the Server Operating Systems on classified, unclassified and Azure cloud networks. | - Manage and maintain Red Hat Linux servers in a large-scale enterprise environment. | - Coordinate patching efforts and remediate cyber vulnerabilities within server systems per established Service Level Agreements (SLAs). | - Support account provisioning and management activities in classified and unclassified environments to ensure compliance with all requirements. | - Assist in writing security plans, performing certification and accreditation tests to validate security policies are in place. | - Collaborate with more experienced technical personnel on medium and high complexity projects to design, install, implement new or modify existing systems. | - Utilize PowerShell, Ansible, and other automation technologies to improve processes and reduce support efforts. | - Support deployment of projects including racking all varieties of hardware, cabling, and OS. | - Engineer solutions in response to support requests and for improving internal processes and procedures. | - Report Key Performance Indicators, including capacity planning, system health. | - Create knowledge articles and other supporting documentation as needed. | - Participate in problem management and root cause analysis as needed. | - Resolve service desk tickets as assigned and maintain 24x7 availability for monitoring of enterprise systems as required. | - Serve as an escalation resource to Help Desk for resolving escalated tickets. | - Perform other duties as assigned by Management.
Posted Date 6 months ago(4/1/2024 3:46 PM)
ID
2024-7390
Location : Location
US-NV-North Las Vegas
Responsibilities (Text Only)
The Enhanced Capabilities for Subcritical Experiments (ECSE) Infrastructure Directorate is looking for a highly-motivated person with backgrounds in science, engineering, and/or project management to become a Control Account Manager (CAM) at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) on projects that will enable three (3) decades of dynamic physics experiments supporting stockpile stewardship. In this role, you will perform the duties as the CAM for major Work Breakdown Structures items for 413.B Line-Item capital project and will be responsible for managing the cost, schedule, and technical performance of a subset of the overall project's scope. This position will directly report to the Project Manager responsible for the completion of total project scope.  |   | Key Responsibilities | - Manage large projects ($10-100M TPC). Responsible for all aspects of the project over the entire lifecycle (initiation, planning, executing, monitoring & controlling, and closing). | - Manage Control Accounts within large 413.B projects ($700M> TPC) that may involve complex and technically challenging scopes of work.  | - Use MSTS project management processes, techniques, and tools. | - Define, plan, execute, monitor, control, and successfully complete discrete elements of scope in compliance with defined schedule, costs, risk, and quality constraints. | - Meet customer needs while providing realistic expectations. | - Establish and actively monitor specific customer satisfaction standards. | - Manage communications between project stakeholders and team members. | - Pro-actively develop and implement strategies to mitigate risk. | - Apply project management best practices and processes, such as planning, work authorization, monitoring project performance, and controlling the project baseline. | - Use cost-benefit analysis in decision-making. | - Effectively use communication skills in executing project management responsibilities. | - Interface with ECSE senior management to address/elevate key project issues and risks. | - Provide project support for change control reviews and Baseline Change Requests (BCR's) that propose significant changes or impact programmatic requirements and reporting. | - Participate with review of key Critical Decision (CD) documentation deliverables to ensure programmatic integrity. | - Hold project reviews and headquarters/dignitary tours, meetings, and reporting. | - Execute project risk management, including establishing and administering management reserve (MR).
Posted Date 2 months ago(8/8/2024 1:23 PM)
ID
2024-7389
Location : Location
US-NV-North Las Vegas
Responsibilities (Text Only)
The Information Technology Directorate is looking for a strong Applications Analyst II to join the Data Services team. |   | Key Responsibilities | - Dashboard Development: Design, develop, and maintain interactive Power BI dashboards and reports to support business decision-making. | - Data Modeling: Create and optimize data models to ensure data integrity and performance in Power BI. | - Performance Tuning: Optimize Power BI reports and dashboards for speed and efficiency. | - Data Visualization: Utilize best practices in data visualization to present complex data in a clear and actionable manner. | - Data Integration: Integrate data from multiple sources to create comprehensive reports and dashboards. | - Quality Assurance: Conduct thorough testing and validation of reports and dashboards to ensure accuracy and reliability. | - Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of all reports, dashboards, and data sources. | - Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including IT, business analysts, and other stakeholders, to understand and meet business needs. | - Continuous Improvement: Stay updated with the latest Power BI features and best practices to continuously improve the reporting and analytics capabilities. | - Security and Compliance: Ensure that all reports and dashboards comply with organizational data security policies and standards. | - Perform other duties assigned by Management.
Posted Date 1 month ago(9/11/2024 12:20 PM)
ID
2024-7332
Location : Location
US-CA-Santa Barbara
Responsibilities (Text Only)
The Program Manager will report to the Special Technologies Laboratory (STL) Deputy Laboratory Director for Operations and will oversee the Information Sciences portfolio and capability at STL. This includes managing the facilities and staff engaged in vulnerability assessments of information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) that support critical infrastructure across the DOE and other government agencies. This portfolio will support selected NA-10, NA-20, SPP/SIPP, and SDRD priorities. The successful candidate will: |   | Key Responsibilities | - Direct all phases of program for a single customer (e.g., NA-40) with a combined value of $100M+ (may be less based on complexity of scope, unique customer set, or visibility of program) from inception through completion. | - Direct all programmatic phases for information science; the total value of which is approximately $10M annually. Part of the duties include expansion of the sponsored projects and recruiting staff for future execution. | - Provide expert guidance and direction to information sciences projects that utilize NNSS resources. | - Monitor and report on program performance metrics, such as Earned Value metrics. | - Have responsibility for coordinating with Project Managers on the cost, schedule and technical performance of applicable project work. | - Serve as supervisor and partners with and facilitates collaboration between project, functional, and sponsor organizations. | - Understand and anticipate potential problems, related to STL/NNSS work, that will delay or prevent successful project execution; coordinate with the Integrated Project Teams, national laboratories, program offices and sites of the NNSS Global Security Directorate to mitigate problem areas. | - Coordinate the preparation of proposals, execution plans, work statements and specifications. | - Successfully negotiate and de-conflict use of NNSS facilities and resources for systems research and development project work. | - Act as primary customer contact for program activities, leading program review sessions with customer to discuss cost, schedule, and technical performance. | - Coordinate with the Global Security Program Offices and Sites to establish milestones and monitor adherence to master plans and schedules Successfully adapt to the needs and objectives of program in order to ensure project success and a positive experience. | - Coordinate with other program units to plan resource allocation, identify program problems, and obtains solutions, such as allocation of resources or changing contractual specifications. | - Direct the work of employees assigned to the program from technical and/or administrative areas. | - Coordinate and serve as point of contact for project data and technical reporting. | - Lead and coordinate planning for maintaining strategic capabilities and critical equipment. | - This is a 20%-time position, and the remainder of the candidate’s time would be expected to be covered by existing direct or indirect technical activities.
Posted Date 7 months ago(3/20/2024 6:19 PM)
ID
2023-6953
Location : Location
US-NV-Mercury
Responsibilities (Text Only)
In this role, the Principal Engineer will lead the engineering and execution of a large project, small projects, and small tasks that support Facilities Engineering and Construction activities for the Nevada National Security Site. Perform the duties as the Control Account Manager (CAM) for design on projects, and be responsible for managing cost, schedule, and technical performance. This position must plan, coordinate, and manage engineering aspects of schedule, scope and budget of work that includes multiple engineering disciplines and construction for these projects. This position may include complex coordination with National Laboratories as well as oversight entities. |   | Key Responsibilities | - Assist the Project Manager and Engineering Staff with planning, coordinating, and preparing of designs, procurement documents, specifications, bid evaluations, and award recommendations for equipment. | - Responsible for design aspects for projects over the entire lifecycle (initiation, planning, executing, monitoring & controlling, and closing). | - Previous experience and responsibilities should demonstrate managing design and construction support for projects including but not limited to: | - Recommend and coordinate preparation and modifications to designs due to field conditions or adverse situations. | - Prepare and/or assist in the preparation of cost estimates and material takeoffs and ascertain whether the proposed material usage will be adequate for its purpose. | - Devise integrated solutions to complex technical problems of broad scope. Solutions are expected to be comprehensive in technical and business aspects and exhaustive at all levels, including cross-disciplinary considerations. | - Ensure deliverables comply with laws, codes, orders, and MSTS policies and procedures. | - Develop new initiatives for additional scopes of work. | - Understanding of Risk Management best practices and mitigation approaches. | | - Serve as a knowledgeable advisor to other project personnel, technical staff, and management on technical issues. | - Provide advice to Senior Management regarding strategic development opportunities using MSTS technologies and capabilities. | - Mentor engineering staff and other technical personnel in methods, processes, and best practices. | - Participate in project development by helping define customer needs, developing proposals and planning projects that will produce effective outcomes. | - Work with customers to verify their needs are clearly defined and documented to meet their objectives and requirements; ensure engineering decisions are responsive to those needs. | - Apply knowledge and familiarity in multiple technical disciplines and ingenuity to implement effective technical solutions. | - Perform other duties assigned by Management.