What are the responsibilities and job description for the Nuclear Enterprise Assurance (NEA) Manager position at Y12?
Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Job Title: Nuclear Enterprise Assurance (NEA) Manager
Career Level: Manager
Organization: Quality Programs (50993673)
Job Specialty: General Quality
Job Title: Nuclear Enterprise Assurance (NEA) Manager
Career Level: Manager
Organization: Quality Programs (50993673)
Job Specialty: General Quality
What You'll Do
The Nuclear Enterprise Assurance (NEA) Manager will be responsible for the development, execution and maintenance of the Y-12 NEA Program. A primary responsibility in this role is to build and lead a team whose responsibility is to ensure implementation and performance of Federal NEA requirements and to support identification, evaluation, and documentation of NEA-related risks that may impact the Y-12 mission. These risks include adversarial based risks associated with:
- Supply Chain
- Nuclear Weapon (NW) Enabling Capabilities related risks that may impact the ability to design, produce or test NW’s
- NW Crosscutting Functions and Programs related risks
- NW System Assurance related risks associated with weapon program products and activities, and
- Digital assurance risks associated with operational technology (OT).
The NEA program is a federally mandated counter subversion program and is applicable to the entire Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE) intended to provide assurance against adversarial attacks and prevent subversion and/or compromise of our nation’s nuclear deterrent across the full weapon lifecycle. The primary objective is to protect our nation’s NW stockpile.
The NEA Manager’s role is to provide direction, coordination, and leadership to the NEA team and act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) that provides support to site organizations in the identification, analysis, and resolution of NEA related risks and issues. Frequent travel is required to support external meetings, working groups, trainings and conferences.
Additionally, you will:
- Lead in development and completion of customer deliverables (e.g., Level 2 Milestones)
- Develop and implement the NEA Site Execution Plan (SEP) through engagement of the NEA Team
- Work with the NEA Program Manager and NA 121.4 staff to establish programmatic goals (budget and finances) and track performance to those goals.
- Champion initiatives to resolve NEA related issues and anomalies
- Work closely with diverse teams in support of NEA related risk discovery, identification, analysis and management including evaluation and development of NEA related risk mitigations, procedures and metrics.
- Ensure collaboration with the intelligence community on activities associated with identification of threats and vulnerabilities associated with the Site mission.
- Serve as the primary Y12 representative on the NEA Integrated Working Group (NIWG) where they will interact with Labs, Plants, and Sites (LPS), External Agencies, and Site NEA Points of Contact (POC) to execute, maintain and improve the NEA program.
What You Can Expect
- Meaningful work and unique opportunities to support missions vital to national and global security
- Top-notch, dedicated colleagues
- Generous pay and benefits with a stable organization
- Career advancement and professional development programs
- Work-life balance fostered through flexible work options and wellness initiatives
Minimum Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree: Minimum 7 years of relevant experience. Typical experience ranging from 7 to 10 years.
- OR Fifteen or more years of education and/or relevant experience may be considered to satisfy educational and years-of-experience requirements for this posting.
Preferred Job Requirements
- Ability to understand technically complex systems, technologies, and applications within the manufacturing and production environments.
- Minimum 3 years of demonstrated supervisory/management experience (including leading teams, performance management, and mentoring)
- Ability to plan, review and communicate technical processes; analyze operational data for the purpose of generating written reports or process improvements; analyze problems and make recommendations associated with special tooling and fixtures used in processes; and clearly and effectively communicate through oral and written word.
- Experience directly associated with NW weapon components and processes is desired.
- Experience with leading and/or participating in subversion centered vulnerability and/or security-related risk assessments.
- Application of tools used in discovering, identifying or evaluating risk [e.g., failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), root cause analysis, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT), Risk Register, and/or risk informed decision making (RIDM)], .
- Knowledge associated with information gathering, analysis and evaluation focused on an adversarial mindset.
- Strong communication skills that support the ability to coordinate, interact, network, and mediate with local and NSE-level NEA subject matter experts and site managers, as well as technical weapons personnel, project managers, and cross-cutting function personnel.
- Experience with improvement-based tools and processes, for example; six sigma, kaizen, and process mapping.
Why Y-12?
You get #morethanajob. We encourage employees to achieve a healthy personal balance among home, work and the community. One of the ways we embrace work-life balance is by offering flexible work arrangements that provide alternatives to the traditional workweek, while still meeting business needs. Top talent and personal commitment mean more to our success than any other factors, so we reward our people with the kinds of benefits that make a positive difference in the quality of their lives. Benefits such as: medical plan, prescription drug plan, vision plan, dental plan, employer matched 401(k) savings plan, disability coverage, education reimbursement and many more. Want to stay healthy and fit but hate the cost of a gym membership? Take advantage of one of our onsite workout facilities and eat healthy in our onsite cafeterias. Much more than a workplace, at Y-12, you can build a career that lasts a lifetime.
Notes
The minimum education and experience for the lowest career level in the job posting range are listed under Minimum Job Requirements. Successful candidates hired into a higher career level than the minimum in the range must meet the requirements listed in the job leveling charts for the career level into which they are being hired.
If a range of Career Levels is posted, i.e., Senior Associate to Senior Specialist, internal applicants already in one of the Career Levels would come across at their current Career Level. Internal applicants currently in a lower level Career Level would move to the lowest posted Career Level.
Requires a Q clearance; however all qualified candidates will be considered regardless of their current clearance status. The ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy Q clearance is required.
This position may require entry into the Material Access Areas (MAA) and participation in the Human Reliability Program (10 C.F.R. Part 712), which requires successful competition of a DOE counterintelligence evaluation and may include a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination.
This position may be categorized as a “designated position” identified by 10 C.F.R. Part 709, requiring successful completion of a DOE counterintelligence evaluation that may include a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination.
CNS is a drug-free workplace. Candidates accepting a job offer will be required to pass a pre-placement physical, drug screening and background investigation. As an employee, you may be required to receive and maintain a security clearance from the United States Department of Energy in order to meet eligibility requirements for access to sensitive information or matter. U.S. citizenship is a requirement for security clearance applicants. All employees are subject to being randomly selected for drug testing without advance notification.
CNS is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment based on merit and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status or disability.
