Summary

The Field Operations Manager focuses on managing and directing team members responsible for program planning and implementation of operations, material and deployment readiness, and deployment field operations. This position will be functionally managing resources across the Nuclear Emergency Support Team (NEST) resource departments and partnering with leadership to ensure resource flexibility.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Interfaces effectively with NNSA, NEST, Quality Assurance, Engineering, and other support organizations.
• Provides “forward thinking” with leadership/technical expertise and/or project management for NEST projects (new program development, training, security, metric management, etc.).
• Facilitates, builds, repairs, and inspects activities which may include electronic or mechanical assembly, machining, tool fabrication, and build of engineering prototypes and fixtures.
• Manages equipment depot activities to support field training exercises ensuring a high state of readiness. Includes trouble shooting and repair of fielded equipment.
• Continuously demonstrates compliance with project management processes.
• Provides project management oversight to achieve quality, delivery, and cost objectives; communicates on a weekly basis with other program, project, and technical management regarding project status, issues, concerns, and opportunities.
• Promotes and supports continuous improvement in the areas of build, repair, and inspection process methods.
• Directly supervises associates and performs other managerial responsibilities including interviewing, hiring, and training associates; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining associates; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
• Ensures effective external customer relationships are established and maintained between multiple external customers including international.
• Ensures functionally aligned resources are workload balanced across multiple projects within the NEST departments.

You Must Have

• 8 years of experience related to job.
• Bachelor's degree required.
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.
• Ability to work remote, hybrid, or on-site as directed by management and is determined by the needs of the business.
• Regular and reliable attendance is an essential function of this job.
• United States Citizenship.
• Ability to obtain and maintain, if required for position, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) security clearance (some positions require additional DOE designations).

We Value

• Bachelor's degree in Business or other technical related field.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the National Response Framework and understanding of the National Incident Management System.
• Possesses familiarity with the infrastructure and agencies that support emergency preparedness and national security.

NMOSPECIFIC

FMT2021