HFIR Nuclear Reactor Trainer

Requisition Id 14512 

 

Overview:    

As a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national laboratory, ORNL has an impressive 80-year legacy of addressing the nation’s most pressing challenges. Our team is made up of over 7,000 dedicated and innovative individuals! Our goal is to create an environment where a variety of perspectives and backgrounds are valued, ensuring ORNL is known as a top choice for employment. These principles are essential for supporting our broader mission to drive scientific breakthroughs and translate them into solutions for energy, environmental, and security challenges facing the nation.

 

We are seeking a Nuclear Reactor Trainer who will focus on development, implementation, and evaluation of training and examination programs for new-hire and incumbent personnel in assigned disciplines at the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR).  This position resides in the Reactor Certifications & Qualifications Group in the Business Management Section, Research Reactors Division, Neutron Sciences Directorate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).    

  

Major Duties/Responsibilities:   

• Develop and maintain lesson plans, instructional aids, and examinations as necessary to support initial and continuing training in assigned disciplines. 

• Implements developed training in various settings (classroom, OJT, mockup). 

• Performs review of instructional materials for technical sufficiency. 

• Develops, grades, and administers written, oral, walkthroughs, operational, and scenario examinations. 

• Conducts training needs assessments to identify the knowledge skills and abilities required in specific jobs. 

• Conducts job and task analyses to identify critical tasks and task elements requiring training. 

• Conducts evaluations of training effectiveness. 

• Monitors the performance and progress of on-the-job training in the assigned program areas and recommends appropriate actions for identified deficiencies. 

• Administers on-the-job training task qualification standards (task checkouts). 

• Develops and submits reports of training and evaluation activities. 

• Assists with periodic comprehensive training program self-audits/self-assessments. 

• Conducts special qualification training for Research Reactors Division (RRD) staff. 

• Conducts remedial training programs to address demonstrated performance deficiencies (i.e., exam failures or as identified by management) as required. 

• Maintain certification/qualification and operational proficiency at the HFIR as HFIR Shift Supervisor/Senior Reactor Operator. 

• Maintain RRD Instructional Technologist qualification. 

• Assists the division drill coordinator in planning, developing, and conducting drills and exercises. 

• May serve as the RRD drill coordinator. 

• Deliver ORNL’s mission by aligning behaviors, priorities, and interactions with our core values of Impact, Integrity, Teamwork, Safety, and Service. Promote equal opprotunity by encouraging a respectful workplace – in how we treat one another, work together, and measure success.  

  

Basic Qualifications: 

• A BS degree with at least 5 years of relevant experi