MSTS is seeking a Senior Safeguards and Security Specialist to support our Special Technologies Lab (STL) in Santa Barbara, CA. | | Key Responsibilities | - Under limited direction, may exercise reasonable latitude in determining computer and information security techniques to accomplish objectives. May conduct research, design, develop, and implement computer security/protection technologies for MSTS’s information and process systems/applications. May research and implement computer security for classified information security and communications security. | - Develops or assists in developing physical security, emergency procedures, and personal protection plans, programs, and criteria for Mission Support and Test Services LLC(MSTS). | - Supervises implementation of security, emergency procedures, and personal protection programs. | - Supervises security staff, evaluates their performance, and recommends compensation and other personnel actions. | - Prepares specifications for contract security services, assists in evaluating contractor proposals, and supervises contractor activities. | - Maintains liaison with federal, state, and local law enforcement and emergency agencies to determine security risk conditions potentially affecting the security of MSTS. | - Organizes or assists in organizing training and coordination of emergency teams. | - Develops security awareness programs and presents training sessions for employees. | - Conducts investigations of criminal acts and potential threats against MSTS's interests. | - Coordinates investigative activities with appropriate management, formulates written reports, and presents oral briefings. | - Conducts audits or surveys of security programs and provides assistance and consulting services to management. | - Oversees the implementation and activities of a graded, effective safeguards program for control and accountability of nuclear material. | - Supervises nuclear material measurements, control, and accounting supporting the Material Control and Accountability (MC&A) program. | - Develops, coordinates, and maintains local the MC&A plan and procedures. | - When assigned to the classification office, assists with performing classification reviews, public release determinations, training, and export control reviews. | - Develops, coordinates, and implements facility security and project specific security plans. | - Performs Personnel Security, Human Reliability Program, and Unclassified Foreign Visit & Assignment actions. | - Performs security incident response actions.
THIS IS A CASUAL POSITION WORKING A MAXIMUM OF 900 HOURS PER CALENDAR YEAR. | | Undergraduate Engineering Interns will work under the direct supervision of a manager & 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 location sites. | | Internships is available at: | - Special Technologies Lab, Santa Barbara | We are looking for qualified and motivated Undergrad students that are pursuing a degree in: | - Electrical Engineering | - Nuclear Engineering | - Mechanical Engineering | - Chemical Engineering | - Civil Engineering | - Fire Protection Engineering | - Software Engineering | | Duties and Responsibilities(may include and will vary depending on which department you are assigned to): | - Work with RF waveforms to develop novel communication pathways, utilize oscilliscopes, RF analysis toolsets using python and Matlab. | - Support research on systems. | - Perform document reviews and updates. | - Conduct walkdowns of various systems to ensure Configuration Management is properly implemented and to validate design drawings are consistent with physical configuration. | - Lead development and implementation of engineering design changes. | - Collaborate with different organizations to ensure facility safety. | - Interface with multiple engineers across multiple disciplines of engineering. | - Learn to read system drawings and sketches. | - Redline drawings. | - Coordinate document reviews and updates. | - Draft drawing/specification/calculations for engineer use. | - Generate/update reports and tracking tools and update engineering forms. | | Please note these important dates for our 2025 Summer Student Program: | - December 19th, 2024 - Last day for student internship applications to be accepted | - May 20th, 2025 - Summer internship Student Program begins | - August 8th, 2025 - Summer internship Student Program concludes |
THIS IS A CASUAL POSITION WORKING A MAXIMUM OF 900 HOURS PER CALENDAR YEAR. | | Undergraduate Science Interns will work under the direct supervision of a manager & 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 location sites. | | This internship is available at our Special Technologies Lab, located in Santa Barbara, CA. | | We are looking for qualified and motivated Undergrad students that are pursuing a degree in: | - Mathematics | - Physics | - Chemistry | - Health Physics | - Geology/Geo-sciences | Duties and Responsibilities (may include and will vary depending on which department you are assigned to): | - Create and give presentations on both project and progress to teammates and management. | - Contribute towards professional reports and papers. | - Potential for participating in hands-on data acquisition activities depending on project. | - Participate on small teams of scientists, engineers, and technicians, to devise technical solutions and provide deliverables to customers. | - Work with the STL Stockpile Team to develop an understanding of vaporization kinetics using STL gas & powder guns. | - Learn shock physics, radiometry, velocimetry, pyrometry. | | Please note these important dates for our 2025 Summer Student Program: | - December 19th, 2024 - Last day for student internship applications to be accepted | - May 20th, 2025 - Summer internship Student Program begins | - August 8th, 2025 - Summer internship Student Program concludes
THIS IS A CASUAL POSITION WORKING A MAXIMUM OF 900 HOURS PER CALENDAR YEAR. | | Undergraduate Business Interns will work under the direct supervision of a manager & mentor within a variety of areas 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 location sites. | | This internship is available at the following location: | - Special Technologies Lab, Santa Barbara, CA | We are looking for qualified and motivated Undergrad business student to assist with mission support functions at STL. This will involve assisting with facilities, security and safety. Day-to-Day activities will include organizing existing documentation and utilizing tools to increase business efficiencies. | | | Please note these important dates for our 2025 Summer Student Program: | - December 19th, 2024 - Last day for student internship applications to be accepted | - May 20th, 2025 - Summer internship Student Program begins | - August 8th, 2025 - Summer internship Student Program concludes
The Infrastructure Work Planning group is seeking to hire a Senior Principal Work Planner to support Global Security activities at the Special Technologies Laboratory located in Santa Barbara, CA. | | Key Responsibilities | - Serve as qualified planner for the assigned area supporting Planning Supervisor and Planning Manager. | - Perform as Work Planning Subject Matter Expert (SME) for STL, ensuring proper implementation of the work planning process. | - Resolve work planning related concerns or issues and vet corrective actions to ensure intended results are achieved. | - Prioritize the work and drive schedule compliance with the planning teams. | - Attend project / stakeholder meetings to provide status on schedule, risk, and issues. | - Serve as system power user and provide mentorship to other planners regarding supporting systems (IBM Maximo, Open Range JHA, Skills, Training and Required Reading). | - Attend and participate in functional organization meetings as identified. | - Review scope of work for assigned activities and work with customers and stakeholders to refine and further develop the scope of work. | - Interface with National Laboratories, Environmental Safety and Health (ESH&Q), Radiological Control, Maintenance, Services, Construction, Fleet, Nuclear Maintenance/Construction, Engineering, project managers, Superintendents, and craft personnel to prepare work documents. | - Facilitate and perform walkdowns and tabletop reviews for scopes of work to clarify work site conditions and discuss job details with customer and subject matter experts. | - Preparation of activity level work documents (ALWDs) (i.e., work packages), and job plans for assigned scope of work, projects or activities. | - Perform hazard analysis for assigned scope of work, project or activities and develop job hazard analysis documents. | - Write/develop work instructions (work plans) for assigned ALWDs. | - Obtain all required supporting documentation (permits, safety plans, design drawings, engineering documents, etc.). | - Identify skill of the worker activities and initial required training for work packages. | - Use Skills, Training, and Required Reading system, identify required training for assigned scope of work and ALWDs. | - Schedule and facilitate SME work package reviews and resolve work package issues, concerns or comments identified during work planning and review process. | - Ensure ALWDs are approved by all required SME’s and stakeholders. | - Perform peer / quality reviews of ALWD’s developed by other planners and provide feedback to ensure high level of quality is maintained. | - Obtain Derivative Classification Reviewing Official qualification and Perform classification reviews of assigned documents. | - Use IBM Maximo to status, track, plan and coordinate all assigned ALWDs. | - Provide regular status of all assigned ALWDs to planning supervisor or manager. | - Identify potential safety, security, quality, or performance issues in performing the work scope and bring to the attention of the appropriate SME/manager. | - Mentor other planners for the work planning process. | - Share lessons learned and best practices. | - Obtain and maintain planner qualifications and required training. | - Perform other duties assigned by Management.
MSTS is seeking an Access Control Personnel (Business Assistant III) member to support our Special Technologies Lab (STL) in Santa Barbara, CA. | | Key Responsibilities | - Protection of security areas against unauthorized access, staffing fixed access control station. | - Protection of government property by conducting inspections of personnel and materials entering and exiting STL facilities. | - Patrolling designated areas and points of security interests, escorting personnel or materials, checking security repositories, secure telephone units, and areas during nonworking hours. | - Conduct daily building checks of all STL facilities during nonworking hours, which are scheduled anytime from the end of a workday to midnight. The building checks are to ensure all areas are properly secure and left in a safe condition. | - Observe/report unauthorized persons in security or controlled access areas, destruction of classified waste, preparing required reports in connection with administration of security functions. | - Responding to alarms and communicating with the alarm monitoring control center. | - Responsible for administering, regulating, and controlling the badge system for all personnel and visitors. | - Cite any unsafe activity, procedures, or conditions; help personnel in the event of a natural disaster or civil disturbance. | - Deter any criminal activity and summon the appropriate law enforcement in the event of a crime. | - Interact with outside agencies and respond to emergencies. | - Answer telephone calls to include access control post numbers, general numbers, as well as other forwarded numbers. | - Maintain and submit written reports about inquiries and accidents, shift summaries, and violations of administrative regulations. | - Perform other duties assigned by Management.
The Program Manager will report to the Special Technologies Laboratory (STL) Manager of the Program Management Office (PMO) and will oversee the Dynamic Experiments portfolio and capability at STL. This includes managing the facilities and staff engaged in the development of advanced measurement techniques and specialized instrumentation in support of NA-10, NA-20, selected SPP, and SDRD priorities. | | 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 experimental physics; the total value of which is approximately $5M annually. | - Provide expert guidance and direction to experimental physics R&D projects that utilize NNSS resources. | - Monitor and report on program performance metrics, such as Earned Value metrics. | - Have responsibility for planning and coordination of budget, execution, and resource allocation with peers and Project Managers on the cost, schedule and technical performance of applicable project work. | - Serves as supervisor and partners with and facilitates collaboration between execution and sponsor organizations. | - Understand and anticipate potential problem areas, 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 using expert knowledge of relevant scientific concepts and methods. | - Successfully negotiate and de-conflict use of NNSS facilities and resources for experimental physics 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 programs in order to ensure project success and a positive experience. | - Coordinate with other program units to plan resource allocation, identify program problems, and identify solutions, such as allocation of resources or changing contractual specifications. | - Direct the work and performance of employees assigned to them. | - 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 research activities. | - Perform other duties assigned by Management.
We are looking for a Principal Scientist candidate as a member of a multidisciplinary team at the NNSS’ Special Technologies Laboratory in Santa Barbara, CA. We are seeking highly motivated scientists who will work as effective leaders and team members to solve national security problems. The successful candidate will play a key role in all aspects of project life-cycles from initial proposal development to final reporting. In addition to performing technical work, the candidate will provide technical direction and assign work to scientists, engineers, technicians and other project team members. This scientist will collaborate with partner labs within the DOE and with academia and serve as subject matter expert on research and development projects. They will create technical reports and present findings to US governmental stakeholders and customers. | | Key Responsibilities | - Work as a Principal Investigator proposing, developing, testing and delivering novel systems in support of national security objectives. | - Lead small project teams (including tasking and budgets) and report deliverables directly to sponsors and collaborators. | - Work with other senior staff to conduct experiments for a diverse array of real-world applications. | - Travel to and participate in field experiments and project meetings. | - Focus on the most complex projects with the broadest technical scope, requiring interdisciplinary and interagency coordination. | - Set priorities and standards for research, data compilation and data analysis. | - Carry out special or unique studies requiring unconventional or novel approaches and techniques. | - Serve as an expert resource, consultant, and advisor both internally and to other organizations. | - Develop new initiatives and technical capabilities for the company to address mission goals | - Advise management on technology utilization and development. Provide guidance to senior management regarding strategic development opportunities for new technologies and capabilities. | - Perform other duties as assigned by Management.
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.