These positions are located in the Office of Nuclear Material, Safety and Safeguard, Division of Fuel Management and Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery and Waste Programs. The supervisors will be Tekia Govan and Michelle Sutherland. These positions are subject to Confidential Financial Disclosure reporting requirements. These positions are subject to security ownership restriction reporting requirements. This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.
Responsibilities
- The successful candidate will perform the full range of a project management duties. The selectee will also have the opportunity to plan, coordinate, direct, and lead major projects for development of regulations, policies, requirements, and guidance for fuel cycle facilities, materials safety, security, and protection of the environment. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing projects and resolving complex, critical, or controversial program policy and licensing issues. Project managers in this position also coordinate with State and local governments and Federal partners on issues related to the safety and security of NRC licensees. They may lead reviews of controversial matters related to licensing and oversight of nuclear facilities. They will rely on the management directives, office instructions, rules, regulations, and procedures in carrying out assigned duties. Duties include but are not limited to: Originates, reviews, modifies, coordinates, formulates, and assesses office positions on policies and emerging issues related to fuel cycle facilities and licensees. Leads major licensing reviews and identifies need for technical assistance to support review of all applications. Coordinates activities for conduct of important review needs, reviews findings, and formulates agency positions concerning them. Identifies need for development of new and revised acquisition policies and to reflect technical assistance need and studies for safety and environmental reviews, new and emerging threats to security of nuclear fuel cycle facilities, materials, and concerns of stakeholders. Identifies work scope, resources, products and schedules for assigned policy development and rulemaking activities to enhance safety and protection of the environment. Coordinates and provides advice related to preparation of policies and of rulemaking documents, including regulatory analyses, statements of consideration, environmental assessments, information collection requirements, reviews for consistency with other policies, consistency with research findings and technological developments, legal reviews, and input from other agencies. Manages the resolution and closure of petitions for rulemaking. Manages, coordinates, and performs safety and environmental reviews of applications for fuel cycle facilities and amendments. Determines requirements for additional information, studies, reviews and documentation. Recommends agency action for applications consistent with NRC Safety Evaluation Reports, Environmental Reports, and other documentation. Initiates and manages contract support for assigned tasks and project activities. Identifies qualifications needed, statements of work, schedules, and deliverable products. Provides guidance and direction to national laboratories and commercial firms performing work under contract, monitors performance, and reviews draft products. Represents the Office at internal NRC meetings to facilitate resolution of issues and formulates Office positions concerning them. Schedules, coordinates, chairs and participates in public meetings with representatives of the public, nuclear industry, NRC staff, States and local governments, and other Federal agencies to address technical or policy matters related to the overall program or to specific licensing actions. Represents the NRC at international forums related to fuel cycle facility issues
Education
Qualification for 0801 series: Basic Requirements: Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. OR Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.) More detailed information about these alternatives are described in the U.S. Office of Personnel Management Qualification Standards Operating Manual which may be accessed at the following website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/general-engineering-series-0801. GG-1301, (General Physical Science Series): Basic requirements: Degree: physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics. OR Combination of education and experience -- education equivalent to one of the majors shown in A above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education. You must include an unofficial or official copy of your college and/or university transcripts with your application. Transcript must include the School Name, Student Name, Degree and Date Awarded (if applicable). Education must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. If you have multiple degrees (e.g., BS, MS, PhD) please submit transcripts for each degree. FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in a conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. For special instructions pertaining to foreign education and a list of organizations that can evaluate foreign education, see the Department of Education website. If you are qualifying on foreign education, you MUST submit proof of creditability of education as evaluated by a credentialing agency. Transcripts must be uploaded with your application to verify education. All documentation must be in English or include an English translation.
