Experimental Operations Division Manager

Job Description

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.

• 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.
  
  

Responsibilities

Do you want to be a part of a national security mission that conducts research and development? Mission Support and Test Services, LLC (MSTS) is seeking a full-time Experimental Operations Division Manager 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 Manager I to collaborate in design, development, characterization, and fielding of diagnostics systems on high stake weapons physics experiments conducted at the Principal Underground Laboratory for Subcritical Experimentation (PULSE) Complex and other facilities located at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). This Experimental Operations Division Manager will report primarily to the Experimental Operations Functional Manager within the SEO – Technology & Operations (T&O) directorate. The SEO -T&O directorate 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, and field diagnostic systems in support of the Stockpile Stewardship program. The selected candidate will report primarily to the NNSS as the Operations Manager within the SEO -T&O directorate to manage the JASPER and BEEF fielding teams in Area 27 and Area 04 respectively.

Key Responsibilities

• Manages a multi-disciplined technical team of supervisor(s), engineers, scientists, and technicians responsible for designing, installing, fielding, and maintaining the JASPER and BEEF testbeds in support of shock physics and high explosive experiments.
• Work with project and functional management teams, along with National Weapons Laboratory customers, to identify technical skillset needs and leadership needs withing the SEO – T&O workforce.
• Collaborate with project managers and control account managers across the NNSS and partner laboratories to appropriately staff diagnostics operations and fielding teams.
• Maintains staffing requirements by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; maintaining a safe, secure, and legal work environment; developing growth opportunities.
• 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.
• Accomplish financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
• Responsible for planning and maintaining work systems, procedures, and policies that enable and encourage the optimum performance of its people and other resources.
• Creates an environment where employees feel safe to raise issues, empowered to address issues, and supported to resolve issues.

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• Promote and actively participate in the MSTS safety concept, Beyond Zero. Engage employees and perform work to achieve a customer-centric focus.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent training and experience, plus a minimum of 11 years of related and progressively responsible experience.
• Must exhibit a professional manner in dealing with others, and the ability to maintain constructive working relationships at all levels.
• Established experience in personnel administration activities that include salary planning and administration, career counseling, and performance reviews.
• Demonstrated work experience of effective oral and written communication skills, and the ability to understand/explain technical concepts to non-technical personnel/customers/clients.
• Ability to foster teamwork, coach, supervise, mentor employees, handle pressure, give constructive feedback, ability to delegate, and manage conflict.
• Demonstrated experience in developing and completion action plans, maintaining project documentation, and ensuring appropriate visibility of project status.
• Demonstrated understanding and application of design, timing and firing, characterization and fielding, cross timing, and diagnostic systems for operations.
• Ability to lead and guide a diverse team of resources, which may include multidisciplinary, matrixed resources, students, and subcontractors to foster an atmosphere of collaboration and teamwork.
• Must have hands-on diagnostics fielding experience.
• The successful candidate will possess the ability to:
• Negotiate creative and innovative solution
• Enhance productivity

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• Exercise clarity and directness in all forms of communication
• Improve and promote excellence
• Clearly set expectations
• Make quality decisions
• Delegate work assignments and monitor delegated activities to closure.
• Must have Organizational agility
• The primary work location will be at the Nevada National Security Site (located 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada).
• Work schedule for this position will be 4/10’s, Monday-Thursday (subject to change).
• 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 Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. MSTS is a background screening, drug-free workplace.

Annual salary range for this position is: $126,984.00 - $203,174.40.

Starting salary is determined based on the position market value, the individual candidate education and experience and internal equity.