Manager II - Scorpius Operations

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.

The Enhanced Capabilities of Subcritical Experiments directorate is looking for a strong leader with managerial and diagnostic fielding experience to manage a team of technicians, scientists, and engineers who design, develop, characterize, and field x-ray generating pulsed power machines on high stakes weapons physics experiments conducted at PULSE, located at the Nevada National Security Site.  The selected candidate will report primarily to NLV and the NNSS as the Scorpius Maintenance and Operations Manager within the ECSE organization to manage assembly and integration testing of the Scorpius linear induction accelerator, along with final installation, operations, and maintenance of the overall machine in direct support of our SCE mission to ensure the safety, security, and reliability of our nation’s nuclear weapon stockpile.   

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a technical workforce that is responsible for the assembly, operation, maintenance, and upgrades of the Scorpius linear induction accelerator.
• Frequent travel may be expected to understand the work that is being performed by our technical workforce at LLNL, LANL, and SNL, and to build professional relationships with subject matter experts at each of our lab partner sites.
• Work closely with project and line management teams and weapons laboratory customers to identify technical skillset needs and leadership needs within ECSE Operations workforce to support multiple pulsed power test beds at the NNSS and in North Las Vegas.
• Collaborate with project managers and control account managers across the NNSS and partner laboratories to appropriately staff pulsed power system development and operations teams.
• Accomplish financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
• Responsible for recruiting employees based on continuous assessment of technical needs; identifying and assigning appropriate hazard mitigation training based on specific job assignments; and creating career development opportunities.
• Responsible for technical skillset development training, including emphasis on upholding the rigor, pedigree, and reputation of world class SCE diagnostics fielding at the NNSS and NWL firing sites.
• Promote and drive collaboration among Scorpius, ZEUS, and Cygnus machine subject matter experts in an ongoing effort to integrate and centralize training programs where feasible, and to leverage common skillsets required across each platform to move toward a more unified pulsed power diagnostic fielding team.
• May be expected to own technical scope of work at the control account manager level or project manager level, responsible for scheduling, planning resources, budgeting, tracking & reporting on performance, and identifying & applying corrective actions.
• Accomplishes staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; developing, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, procedures, and productivity standards.
•  Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.
• Responsible for planning and maintaining work systems, procedures, and policies that enable and encourage the