Asset Management Section Head

Oak Ridge National Laboratory•Oak Ridge, TN

3d•Onsite

About The Position

ORNL is investing in its nuclear facilities to ensure directorate goals are met and strategies are executed. To support and protect its assets, ORNL is hiring a Section Head to lead the Asset Management organization within the Non-Reactor Nuclear Facilities Division. This position will lead the development and implementation of best practices and standards for maintaining and improving equipment reliability, efficient predictive, preventative, and corrective maintenance processes, ensuring efficient outage planning, and providing a planning and maintenance function to support mission-essential capabilities. In this role, you will partner strongly with directorate leadership, engineering professionals, and operations teams to develop tactical and strategic initiatives to solve long-term equipment/resource needs.

Requirements

BS in a STEM field and 15+ years of relevant experience. Or an MS and 10+ Years of relevant experience. PhD and 7+ Years of relevant experience.
Experience in maintaining assets in a nuclear facility and familiarity with Directive DOE433.1B
Experience with Asset management CMMS software and integration
Ability to obtain and maintain a Q clearance which requires US Citizenship.

Nice To Haves

Recognized industry certification such as CMRP, CRL, CFM
10 + years’ experience in management roles of a technical or maintenance field
Direct leadership of one or more full cycle asset management program implementations
Proficiency in continuous improvement tools and methods such as Lean and Six Sigma. Certifications are desirable.

Responsibilities

Lead a team of Electricians, Mechanics, HVAC, Laborers, Millwrights, Janitors, Pipefitters, Instrument and Calibration Technicians, Carpenters, Painters, Riggers, Reliability Technicians, Expeditors, material handlers, managers, and technical SMEs to support NNFD operations and related mission initiatives.
Foster and develop a culture of continuous improvement by adopting/instilling SCOR principles in their organization.
Partner with nuclear facility operations, engineering, support functions, and key mission stakeholders to ensure investments/improvements are identified, processed, and prioritized using standardized asset management programs and techniques.
Provide support functions and capabilities including boot and “tent” manufacturing, maintenance shops, tele-manipulator repair, parts storage, bench-stock, and consumable materials management.
Develop and manage a work request processing methodology that integrates planning and work control development for reliable and safe execution of work throughout the organization.
Lead a maintenance oversight function that ensures trained and qualified craft performing work safely and compliantly, ensuring the ISMS process and any associated work control in nuclear facilities are followed for work performed by the craft.
Establish performance indicators to monitor and identify improvements in reliability, costs, regulatory compliance, and asset availability.
Promote/provide reliability data and metrics for systems engineering and facility management to facilitate risk-informed decisions on priority and scheduling maintenance outages.
Ensure the integration of reliability with predictive, preventative, and corrective maintenance processes to improve mean time between failure performance, reduce outage duration, and extend the life of critical assets.
Lead the Asset Management workforce planning: Interface with talent acquisition and HR business partners to retain, attract, staff, promote, reward, and assess talent within the organization.
Support the NNFD facilities with identification of key-asset improvements and replacements for submittal into the integrated priority list.
Evaluate staff performance against ORNL Core Values (Integrity, Impact, Safety, Teamwork, and Service).