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[Technical Manager] FELLOW TECHNICAL ADVISOR

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Provide expert project management support in the areas of scheduling, estimating, planning, project execution and strategic planning.

Job Duties and Responsibilities
Perform major organization assessments, project leadership assessments, and NNSA HQ interface to the SRPPF organization. Provide mentoring to project/program managers and project control personnel in 413.38 implementation, project execution, Independent Project Reviews (IRR), Annual Project Reviews (APR) and EVMS.
Lead and/or participate in major project reviews such as contractor red/green team reviews ahead of IPRs, APRs, ICE, preliminary/final design and CD-3x packages submittals.
Provide consultation on all aspects of the plutonium facility operations to include multi-shift operations, BG operations (acquisition/operability/constructability), waste management and radiological operations.
Advise and support management in development of integrated team structure, leading identification of mission objectives and performance evaluation.
Provide oversight of support operations, possible involving multiple projects and groups of personnel.

Qualifications and Experience (required)
Masters degree in a technical field with 25 years broad experience in engineering, operations, marketing, strategic and business planning, or a
Bachelors degree in a technical field with 30 years experience as described above.
20 or more years of experience working in plutonium facilities or on plutonium projects. 15 or more years of 413.3B project management experience 5 or more years of experience on NNSA/DOE capital line-item projects Experience/Skills: 10 or more years working at the Savannah River Site is preferred
PMP Certification
PE License in the state of SC
Active DOE L or Q security clearance
Provide technical oversight, technical support and engineering leadership for chemical process systems and unit operations (e.g., solvent extraction, dissolving, evaporation, ion-exchange, precipitation, calcination, etc.) in the Savannah River H-Canyon and HB-Line operating nuclear materials processing plants. Including:
Provide evaluations and recommendations to Engineering Management on nuclear operations
Perform and support site organization in mission and strategic planning for H-Canyon and HB-Line
Provide technical oversight to facility engineering organizations and mentoring of junior engineers
Develop process flow sheets
Direct SRNL in process flowsheet development and anomaly evaluation
Perform technical reviews of engineering and nuclear safety documents
Provide direction to safety basis development strategy and input selection
Lead technical teams to resolve division-wide issues
Provide general engineering support to ensure safe facility operations
Perform daily work duties in accordance with Site procedure E7 and 11Q
Candidate must have a minimum 30 years of experience with DOE nuclear material processing.
Familiarity with H-area and F-area Separations processes is preferred.
Candidate must have ability to walkdown systems in the field.
Must understand and have experience with the following:
Properties and characteristics of nuclear materials such as 239Pu, 238Pu, 237Np, 233U, HEU, LEU, NU, 241Am, and other unique and rare isotopes.
Technical and safety related knowledge of SRS Fuel processing including PUREX and HM oxidation reduction flowsheets, and electrolytic dissolution.
Nuclear system operations and supporting technical bases for the following: building air supply, exhaust, exhaust filtration (HEPA and sand filter), chemical storage and distribution systems, steam, cooling water supply and return, compressed air (breathing, instrument, process, and plant), electrical, nuclear criticality alarm systems and their control schemes including distributed controls.
Ability to integrate nuclear safety, operations, and chemical processes.
DNFSB Interaction to discuss / resolve technical issues and concerns.
Candidate must have strong oral and written communication skills. Teamwork skills are important in the highly-matrixed project environment at the SRS.

Work Hours
A 40 hour work week is scheduled. SRNS utilizes various work schedules including 5/8s (8 hour/day; five days per week), 4/10s (10 hours/day; four days per week), and 9/80s (9 hours/day, five days on week AA and four days on week BB. Work week excludes SRNS holidays. Each workday has 30-minute lunch. Overtime will be expected at times to meet deliverables and will be utilized at the discretion of the Manager

Work Environment / Physical Demands
This job operates in a professional office environment and uses standard office equipment such as computers and phones.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
o Ability to sit/ stand for up to 8 hours per day.
o Ability to move freely for up to 8 hours per day.


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