Team Lead, R&D Safety

Requisition Id 14576 

 

Overview:

We are seeking a Team Lead who will focus on managing and mentoring field deployed Safety and Health Professionals who are matrixed to Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) research and development (R&D) and Nonreactor Nuclear Facility organizations. These positions will reside in the F&D, Neutron & Nuclear Safety Services Group within the Safety and Operations Services Division (SOSD) of the Environment, Safety, Health and Quality (ESH&Q) Directorate at ORNL.  

 

As part of this group, the Team Lead will manage a portion of staff within the group while also providing technical professional industrial hygiene support to customers.  Up to 30% of time will be dedicated to supervising staff, with the remainder in a technical role providing identification, recognition, evaluation, and control of workplace hazards associated with dynamic and rapidly evolving R&D activities or nuclear facilities. The R&D, Neutron, and Nuclear Safety Services Group provides safety and health professionals with expertise in IH to customers in ORNL’s R&D scientific directorates, to research at the two onsite neutron user facilities, and to operations in Nonreactor Nuclear Facilities. The staff who will report to the Team Leads are well qualified safety and health professionals with technical expertise in IH and safety. The Team Leads will be responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the organization (budget, planning, staffing, recruiting, business plan execution, etc.) while developing the technical and organizational strengths of the group.

 

ORNL is the largest U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) science and energy laboratory, conducting basic and applied research to deliver transformative solutions to compelling problems in energy and security.  Our diverse capabilities space a broad spectrum of scientific and engineering disciplines, enabling the Laboratory to explore fundamental science challenges and to carry out the research needed to accelerate the delivery of solutions to the marketplace.

 

Major Duties/Responsibilities: 

• Manage and mentor safety and health professionals matrixed to scientific research organizations and nonreactor nuclear facilities.

• Provide professional safety and industrial hygiene (IH) support to and oversight of R&D and/or facility operations and maintenance activities.

• Build and sustain an environment that supports cooperation and cohesiveness between H&S, operations, and research staff.

• Evaluate R&D activities, facilities and operations tasks, or internal operating procedures and processes to identify hazards and provide recommendations for controls and verify adequacy of controls as work proceeds.

• Use comprehensive IH practices and equipment to conduct qualitative and quantitative exposure assessments of chemical and physical hazards.

• Develop and maintain positive customer relationships across ORNL.

• Review procurement and subcontract activities for safety, environmental and operational requirements.

• Participate in the review and development of division or directorate level procedures and guidelines as needed

• Support the Group Leader in executing the division and directorate business plans and objectives, recruiting, subcontracting and professional development initiatives to attract, develop, motivate and retain highly qualified and diverse staff.

• Participate in inspections, assessments and audits.

• Abide by and promote the Battelle Safe Conduct of Research principles including being personally responsible for ensuring safe operations, raising safety concerns, using a questioning attitude, considering hazards for every task and where learning never stops.

• Continually seek ways to increase operational efficiencies and improve safety culture in support of the ORNL mission and champion initiatives to do so.