DAF Deputy Engineering Manager

Job Description

Mission Support and Test Services, LLC (MSTS) is a leading provider of high-hazard experimentation and incident response capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Reports to the DAF Engineering Manager.
• Responsible for management of DAF engineers and engineering activities associated with the DAF Electrical, Mechanical, & Communications and Civil, Structural, & Architectural groups.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand and maintain the assigned systems design requirements per the DAF Documented Safety Analysis.
• Ensure that design output documents appropriately reflect the design basis and required functional classification of the assigned DAF Structures, Systems and Components (SSCs).
• Assure that the design requirements and design basis are fully identified and in a form compatible to maintain and control the design basis.
• Authorize facility Configuration Management changes and manage the configuration of assigned DAF facility systems.
• Provide technical support in the areas of construction, maintenance, and nuclear operations.
• Coordinate with engineers, project managers, and maintenance personnel to ensure proper testing and documentation is developed to support component and system specifications, functions, and operability.
• Develop and maintain engineering documents, reports, and correspondence to enable business activity.
• Must effectively communicate to confer and gather information from subject matter experts for inclusion into specifications to ensure technical accuracy and completeness of the content.
• Perform a wide range of tasks and special assignments that require comprehensive knowledge of engineering processes and procedures with the ability to analyze, interpret, and make recommendations.
• Maintain staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, and developing growth opportunities for employees.
• Maintain a safe, secure, and legal work environment.
• Accomplish 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.
• Create an environment where employees feel safe to raise issues, empowered to address issues, and supported to resolve issues.
• Demonstrate environment, safety, health, and quality leadership and consistently enforce environment, safety, health, and quality policies and procedures.
• Implement applicable environment, safety, health, and quality requirements; emphasize the safety of each employee, and the protection of equipment and property in area of responsibility.
• Take immediate action to correct reported or observed unacceptable environment, safety, health and quality conditions and/or behaviors.
• Assure that appropriate procedures, training, equipment, warnings, and tools are provided to employees to permit work to be performed safely.
• Effectively interface and communicate with MSTS leadership, National Weapons Lab personnel, Nevada Field Office (NFO), and Defense Nuclear Safety Board (DNFSB) representatives.
• Promote and actively participate in the Mission Support and Test Services (MSTS) safety concept.
• Support and encourage employee participation in MSTS environment, safety, health, and quality initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent training and experience, plus a minimum of 11 years of related and progressively responsible experience.
• DOE STD 3009 is preferred, however, experience working in a government regulated industry is acceptable.
• Experience working with requirements-based systems or industries.
• Experience, skill, and/or training in the function of performing workload distribution and execution of the work.
• Skilled in working and communicating effectively with project functional groups, primarily Design Engineering, Construction, Project Management, and other services.
• Must possess excellent interpersonal skills and ability to interact with all types of people in a tactful, professional, and effective manner while maintaining confidentiality.
• Must be able to cope with conflicting deadlines, heavy workloads, and constant interruptions.
• Demonstrated leadership qualities with emphasis on continuous improvement and team building.
• Knowledge of nuclear safety basis, technical vocabularies, and terminology common to the assignment.
• Ability to work with limited supervision and under general direction.
• Learns quickly, detail oriented, and able to work within a team environment where challenges become opportunities.
• The candidate must be proficient in standard office software (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Skilled in business usage of the English language.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain HRP certification.
• The primary work location will be at the Nevada National Security Site (located 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada).
• Work schedule will be 4/10s Monday through 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 drivers license.