Senior/Principal Safety Basis Engineer - Nuclear Facility Safety Basis, Hybrid

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We are seeking a Safety Basis Engineer to join the Environmental Safety & Health Planning Department's Nuclear Facility Safety Basis (NFSB) Team. This is an experienced team that performs a wide array of tasks to support and provide safety basis oversight for Sandia's nuclear facilities.

On any given day, you may be called on to:

• Work with a team of 4-6 NFSB engineers to provide safety basis assistance across the laboratory, with a primary focus on the ACRR, SPR/CX, and AHC Facilities at TA-V.
• Provide on-site and off-site technical assistance, classroom training, document reviews, audits and assessments, and support of hazard analyses.
• Perform analyses of processes, systems, and accident phenomenology.
• Provide subject matter expertise for nuclear facility safety basis determinations; address DOE and Sandia safety basis requirements and issues; Primary Hazard Screening (PHS/PHAS) design, development, and maintenance; Conduct of Operations; and Readiness Reviews.
• Perform PHS/PHAS reviews for those associated with NFSB and perform field assessments (walkdowns), if necessary.
• Provide expertise in hazard identification, facilitate hazard analyses to identify and select appropriate controls, and develop/review safety cases.
• Review the annual updates to the document safety analyses (DSAs) and technical safety requirements (TSRs) for nuclear facilities.
• Lead or assist with various aspects of the Readiness Review process and evaluate the associated documentation to advise on whether planned work has achieved readiness for the safe startup or restart of operations.
• Lead or assist with Conduct of Operation (ConOps) matrix reviews and assessments.
• Prepare or review Unreviewed Safety Question (USQ) documentation, to include the yearly assessment delivered to SFO.
• Ensure a database of bounding radionuclide quantities/sources is maintained using PHS/PHAS data to ensure there is no inadvertent creation of additional nuclear facilities at SNL.
• Perform engineering analyses of nuclear or radioactive materials, chemical inventories, high-energy materials, and operations to resolve or establish a facility's hazard categorization based upon regulatory requirements.
• Develop, review, maintain, and/or provide comments on changes to internal department policies, department owned corporate policies, the ES&H Manual, and other corporate policies and documents.
• Prepare and review technical reports based on the expert interpretation of analyzed data.
• Monitor safety basis best-practices and lessons-learned across the DOE complex.
• Interface with a wide variety of Sandia departments such as operations, engineering, and assurance, at all levels of management, as well as the DOE Sandia Field Office and US Government strategic partners.
• Develop, maintain, and provide Sandia training on safety basis issues and procedures (classroom and virtual).

The selected applicant can work a combination of onsite and offsite work. The selected applicant must live within a reasonable distance for commuting to the assigned work location when necessary.

$102,400 - $199,700

*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant STEM discipline plus five (5) or more years of relevant experience.
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience working at DOD, DOE, or commercial nuclear facilities.
• Working knowledge of DOE Orders, Standards, and Guides in the subject area of safety basis.
• Experience with the following:
  • Development or review of DSAs and TSRs for research reactors, critical assemblies, and/or non-reactor nuclear facilities at DOE sites.
  • Hazard categorization and classification processes and principles of DOE-STD-1027.
  • DOE/SNL Readiness Review processes.
  • Developing, instructing, or facilitating safety basis classes.
  • DOE/SNL USQ process and with preparing and reviewing USQ documentation.
  • Assessing the adequacy and/or validating the implementation of safety controls, including detailed understanding of administrative and engineering controls.
• Ability to obtain and maintain DOE Q-level security clearance.

• Experience with the following:
  • Application of Conduct of Operations (ConOps) at DOE facilities.
  • Field of systems engineering.
  • Leading diverse teams and the ability to work cooperatively in a team-oriented environment.
  • Successful facilitation and resolution of potentially contentious issues in a diverse group setting.
• Working knowledge of Sandia's safety basis policies, practices, and procedures.
• Ability to interpret mechanical and electrical engineering drawings, process layouts, blueprints, and other drawings and schematics.
• Ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to use engineering or technical judgment, within defined scientific and engineering practices, in negotiating with customers and program managers to ensure that resources are available to accomplish work, identify program needs, and marshal resources to complete project deliverables within the scope, schedules, and budgets defined in project work packages.
• Ability to oversee project teams in the planning, tracking, and execution of project plans from initiation to completion.
• Ability to provide leadership and tactical planning for execution of projects and applies engineering or other technical knowledge to achieve project objectives and deliverables.
• Ability to negotiate with customers on matters of customer requirements and limitations.
• Ability to conduct technical and program reviews to report status of schedule and performance to management and customers.
• Detailed understanding of programmatic and facility operations including engineered systems and respective performance characteristics or engineering controls, operating parameters, failure modes, preventive maintenance requirements, monitoring requirements, and calibrations/certifications.

The ES&H Planning Department contributes to the execution of the Sandia National Laboratories' mission at all levels within the processes of planning and executing work across the laboratory. We partner with our customers to integrate safety into management and work practices at all levels, addressing all types of work and all types of hazards to ensure protection of workers, the public, and the environment. The department performs the following activities:Provide program, technical assistance, and tools to assist customers in understanding and integrating work planning into their activities.Our subject matter expertise includes safety basis regulatory requirements, Primary Hazard Screening design/development/maintenance, Nuclear and Industrial Facility Safety Basis determination and support, Conduct of Operations, Readiness Assessments, and Work Planning and Control/Engineered Safety collaboration.Services provided include on-site technical assistance, training, document reviews, audits and assessments, and support of failure modes analyses/hazard evaluations.This department's mission is consistent with and supports the corporate core values of service to the nation, teaming for excellence, and living safe and healthy lives.Our customers include everyone at the laboratory, focusing on managers and staff planning and performing work in support of Sandia's programs and projects.

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of three (3) calendar days, including the 'posting date'. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

Sandia is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.

Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

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