Senior Principal Engineer

Mission Support and Test Services, LLC (MSTS) manages and operates the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) for the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).  Our MISSION is to help ensure the security of the United States and its allies by providing high-hazard experimentation and incident response capabilities through operations, engineering, education, field, and integration services and by acting as environmental stewards to the Site’s Cold War legacy.  Our VISION is to be the user site of choice for large-scale, high-hazard, national security experimentation, with premier facilities and capabilities below ground, on the ground, and in the air. (See NNSS.gov for our unique capabilities.) Our 2,750+ professional, craft, and support employees are called upon to innovate, collaborate, and deliver on some of the more difficult nuclear security challenges facing the world today.  

• MSTS offers our full-time employees highly competitive salaries and benefits packages including medical, dental, and vision; both a pension and a 401k; paid time off and 96 hours of paid holidays; relocation (if located more than 75 miles from work location); tuition assistance and reimbursement; and more.  
• MSTS is a limited liability company consisting of Honeywell International Inc. (Honeywell), Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Jacobs), and HII Nuclear Inc.

MSTS is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer for a Facility/System Engineering position at our PULSE facility.  The PULSE facility is an underground nuclear facility located within the Forward Areas of the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) that supports Subcritical Experiments performed by the National Weapons Laboratories.

Key Responsibilities

• Devise integrated solutions to the most complex technical problems of broad scope. Solutions are comprehensive in technical and business aspects and exhaustive at all levels, including cross-disciplinary.
• Serve as Technical Lead for major projects and startups. Initiates collaboration with partners external to MSTS. Leads collaboration to achieve mission execution. 
• Ensure team’s processes and deliverables comply with laws, codes, orders, and MSTS policies and procedures. 
• Develop new initiatives for additional scopes of work. 
• Serve as an expert advisor to other personnel and management on difficult and critical technical issues. 
• Provide guidance to senior management regarding strategic development opportunities using MSTS technologies and capabilities. 
• Encourage development of intellectual property and publishing in refereed journals. 
• Mentor S/E staff and technical management in methods, processes, and best practices. 
• Participate in business development, by defining customer needs, developing proposals and planning projects that will produce results meeting customer needs. 
• Work with customer personnel to ensure their needs are clearly defined and works with others to meet customer objectives. 
• Responsible for planning and maintaining work systems, procedures, and policies that enable and encourage the optimum performance of its people and other resources.
• Ensure the facility operates in a safe manner by overseeing facility systems and verifying their operation or function against design or performance requirements.
• Ensure Configuration Management of safety class, safety significant, life safety or mission critical systems is maintained by verifying the in-field physical configuration, the system drawings and documented system requirements are all in agreement.
• Manage facility design change control and verify technical adequacy and completeness of the engineering design outputs as it applies to the design basis.
• Develop, maintain, and distribute engineering documents, reports, and correspondence to enable business activity.
• Apply knowledge and ingenuity to implement cutting edge, pioneering solutions in the technical arena, often in unexplored areas of investigation and research. 
• May be called upon to represent company position to headquarters or regulatory customers. 
• In addition to fulfilling basic ESH&Q obligations: 
  • • Must assure that all aspects of safety have been addressed in design and execution of work.
  • • Work may affect public health and safety. 
  • • May lead safety planning for high hazard potential projects. 
  • • May be designated Work Planner for other departments. 
  • • May help formulate ESH&Q guidelines 

• Minimum Education and Experience:
  • Bachelor’s degree in an engineering program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) required for Civil, Mechanical and Electrical engineering degrees
    • Or, Calculus-based STEM bachelor’s degree in engineering
    • Or, for Architects, Certi