Manager III - Experimental Operations

Overview

Mission Support and Test Services, LLC (MSTS) manages and operates the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) for the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).  Our MISSION is to help ensure the security of the United States and its allies by providing high-hazard experimentation and incident response capabilities through operations, engineering, education, field, and integration services and by acting as environmental stewards to the Site’s Cold War legacy.  Our VISION is to be the user site of choice for large-scale, high-hazard, national security experimentation, with premier facilities and capabilities below ground, on the ground, and in the air. (See NNSS.gov for our unique capabilities.) Our 2,750+ professional, craft, and support employees are called upon to innovate, collaborate, and deliver on some of the more difficult nuclear security challenges facing the world today.  In this environment, the best ideas need to be voiced and every opinion matters.  As such, MSTS places great value on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and is committed to a diverse and equitable workforce, with an inclusive culture that values and celebrates the diversity of our people, talents, ideas, and perspectives.

• MSTS offers our full-time employees highly competitive salaries and benefits packages including medical, dental, and vision; both a pension and a 401k; paid time off and 96 hours of paid holidays; relocation (if located more than 75 miles from work location); tuition assistance and reimbursement; and more.  


• MSTS is a limited liability company consisting of Honeywell International Inc. (Honeywell), Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Jacobs), and HII Nuclear Inc.

NNSS COVID-19 attestation requirements: https://www.nnss.gov/pages/nfo/WorkingForMSTS.html

Responsibilities

The Stockpile Stewardship and Operations (SEO) Technologies and Operations  (T&O) organization is looking for a strong leader with managerial and diagnostic fielding experience to manage a team of technicians, scientists, and engineers who design, develop, characterize, analyze weapons physic data and field diagnostics necessary for stockpile stewardship experiments conducted at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). In this role, you will split your time managing working teams executing mission at the NNSS and in the North Las Vegas (NLV) facilities and laboratories.

SEO T&O Directorate is looking for an Experimental Operations Manager III that will be responsible for hiring, developing, and managing the operations team. Provide visionary leadership, prioritization, and guidance on future program contributions that support the National Security Enterprise (NSE) weapon program activities. Accountable for successfully achieving a suite of experimental program deliverables at the national, site, and company levels.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsibilities include managing the technical, budgetary, and functional performance of staff while delivering leadership across the organization to assure safe, secure, and delivery of high-quality services in performance of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) mission.


• Provide technical, functional, and operational leadership for approximately 80 scientists, technicians, engineers, and other professionals that are executing the NNSA mission.


• Works with project and functional management teams, and weapons laboratory customers to identify technical skill-set needs and leadership needs to support multiple testbeds at the NNSS and in NLV.


• Collaborates with project managers and control account managers across the NNSS and partner laboratories to appropriately staff development and operations teams. Ensure operations teams have the funding required to ensure safe and effective operations at the NNSS and NLV.


• Accomplishes financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.


• Lead the development of procedures and work control needed to safely and efficiently operate stockpile stewardship testbeds.


• Coordinate with stakeholders to develop operating plans and strategic plans for each technology and testbed that identifies operational and sustainment requirements to support dynamic weapons experiments.


• May be expected to own technical scope of work at the control account manager level or project manager level, responsible for scheduling, planning resources, budgeting, tracking and reporting on performance, and identifying and applying corrective actions.


• Must be proactive in exploring new areas of technology investment through Site Directed Research and Development (SDRD).


• Accomplishes 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.


• Foster a culture that promotes professional development and inclusion by promoting career development for the operations staff, orchestrating growth opportunities and ensuring task completion in a dynamic research and development environment, establishing clear responsibility and accountability for carrying out requirements, creating an environment where employees feel safe and empowered to raise and address and resolve issues; and inspiring employees to succeed and mentor early career managers to provide management succession as needed.


• Expertly communicate operations requirements to MSTS company management, external customers and collaborators, as well as state and Federal compliance personnel.


• Promotes "organizational learning" concepts and provides leadership that encourages continuous improvement in cost reductions and enhancements in the performance of NNSA/NSE, program/project, and other customers' missions.


• Anticipates risks and assures risks inherent in facilities operations are identified, mitigated, or transferred.


• Demonstrate the safety of each employee and the protection of equipment and property in area of responsibility by adopting applicable safety requirements.


• 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.


• Promote and actively participate in the MSTS safety concept, Beyond Zero. Champion the operating practices of our execution model called Integrated Operations Nevada (ION) to engage employees and perform work to achieve a customer-centric focus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent training and experience, plus a minimum of 17 years of related and progressively responsible experience.


• Demonstrated experience to apply the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies required to successfully perform the job.


• Must be innovative and have good problem-solving skills.


• Breadth of experience and ability to inspire and motivate others to perform well.


• Possesses the ability to:
  
  
  
  • Negotiate creative and innovative solutions
  
  
  • Enhance productivity
  
  
  • Exercise clarity and directness in all forms of communication
  
  
  • Improve and promote excellence
  
  
  • Delegate work assignments and monitor delegated activities to closure
  
  
  • Clearly set expectations
  
  
  • Make quality decisions
  
  
  • Deal with ambiguity and conflicting priorities
  
  


• Must have a Corporate Perspective.


• Must have organizational agility.


• Must be comfortable with all levels of employees, from front line to executive leadership.


• The primary work location will be at the Losee Road facility in North Las Vegas, Nevada.


• Pre-placement physical examination, which includes a drug screen, is required. MSTS maintains a substance abuse policy that includes random drug testing.


• Must possess a valid driver's license.

MSTS is required by DOE directive to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants offered employment with MSTS are also subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment. In addition, Applicants for employment must be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship, at least 18 years of age. Reference DOE Order 472.2, “Personnel Security”. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.

Department of Energy Q Clearance (position will be cleared to this level). Reviews and tests for the absence of any illegal drug as defined in 10 CFR Part 707.4, “Workplace Substance Abuse Programs at DOE Sites,” will be conducted.  Applicant selected will be subject to a Federal background investigation, required to participate in subsequent reinvestigations, and must meet the eligibility requirements for access to classified matter. Successful completion of a counterintelligence evaluation, which may include a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination, may also be required. Reference 10 CFR Part 709, “Counterintelligence Evaluation Program.”

MSTS is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. MSTS is a background screening, drug-free workplace.