Senior Fellow/Engineer Specialized Professional Occupations

Pinnacle Specialty Group, Inc.•Oak Ridge, TN

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Pinnacle Specialty Group is a woman-owned and operated small business specializing in providing project and contract management for Professional, Technical, Engineering, IT and Support Services. This position is a senior level position where the incumbent is fully responsible for providing strategic technical leadership and expertise for the CNS Readiness Assurance Program (RAP) with a focus on the startup of Weapon Facilities and Weapon Related Processes. This program provides technical direction for the startup and restart of complex nuclear and high-hazard non-nuclear Facilities, Activities, and Operations as well as performing detailed technical reviews of CNS Nuclear Safety Analysis Reports, Technical Safety Requirements, Process Hazard Analysis and supporting documentation. The role of the Readiness Leader (RL) is to provide self-directed, multi-disciplinary technical leadership to ensure that startups and restarts of a wide range of specialized operational systems are accomplished meeting operational readiness expectations.

Requirements

Proof of U.S. citizenship is required.

Nice To Haves

Specialized Professional Occupation Level 6 - BA/BS Degree plus 20 years of direct experience with 10 years of DOE-specific experience required, or an MA or MS Degree, plus 18 years of direct experience with 10 years of DOE-specific experience.
Level 6 - BA/BS Degree plus 20 years of direct experience with 10 years of DOE/DOD-specific experience required, or an MA or MS Degree, plus 18 years of direct experience with 10- years of DOE/DOD-specific experience. Approval of this position designation will be based on Company’s sole determination that special or extenuating circumstances are present and justify utilization of this assignment.

Responsibilities

Serve as the technical expert for operational readiness ensuring that physical and administrative boundaries are defined, and review level determinations are completed;
Resolve technical problems and make decisions and recommendations to the project team and senior management;
Ensure that integrated planning across multiple organizations and individuals is accomplished to identify the set of tasks needed to attain operational readiness;
Ensure that tasks required for attaining operational readiness are fully accomplished with high quality products that can withstand the scrutiny of contractually required operational readiness verification reviews;
Serve as the team leader or team member of review teams that perform readiness reviews to verify operational readiness or Safety Basis Implementation Validation Reviews to verify that the requirements, assumptions, and controls from safety basis documents (DSA and TSR) are correctly captured in the documents and are fully implemented;
Provide expert based training on the CNS Readiness Assurance Program to a variety of individuals including; Facility, Operations, Program and Project Managers and mentor less experienced staff.