Senior Readiness Leader

Boston Government Services, LLC • Oak Ridge, TN

4d • Onsite

About The Position

Boston Government Services (BGS) is seeking a Senior Readiness Leader to support clients at the Y12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. BGS is an engineering, technology, and security firm that advances missions of national importance for government programs, national laboratories, national security facilities, nuclear operations, and complex projects. They support clients from strategic planning and program management to engineering and technical activities, focusing on complex, secure, and highly regulated environments. BGS fosters a culture of respect, collaboration, and accountability, empowering employees to contribute ideas, grow professionally, and make an impact. The Y12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, TN, is vital to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Nuclear Security Enterprise, providing manufacturing, technical, and scientific expertise for nuclear deterrents, WMD threat reduction, Naval Reactors Program materials, and emerging national security challenges. Y-12 has state-of-the-art capabilities in nuclear technology and materials, security and consequence management, and manufacturing and technical services, supporting other federal agencies, local governments, and private companies. This senior-level position involves 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. The program offers technical direction for the startup and restart of complex nuclear and high-hazard non-nuclear Facilities, Activities, and Operations, and conducts detailed technical reviews of CNS Nuclear Safety Analysis Reports, Technical Safety Requirements, Process Hazard Analysis, and supporting documentation. The Readiness Leader (RL) provides self-directed, multi-disciplinary technical leadership to ensure startups and restarts of specialized operational systems meet operational readiness expectations.

Requirements

• 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.
• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Successful drug screening.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a security or clearance badge.
• Requires a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Q security clearance; however, all qualified candidates will be considered regardless of their current clearance status.

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.

Benefits

• Health
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• Paid Vacation
• 401K
• Long and Short-Term Disability

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior