IWC Manager II

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 Infrastructure Directorate is seeking a Manager II to lead the Integrated Work Control Division. This role is crucial for enterprise-wide work planning and control, supporting critical national security operations.

This position provides senior leadership for the integrated work control program, ensuring safe, compliant, and efficient construction, maintenance, infrastructure, and R&D activities across multiple nuclear/high-hazard and general service facilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as Program Manager for the Integrated Work Control Process, ensuring effective implementation of Integrated Safety Management across the NNSS and satellite locations.
• Identify, lead, and implement Work Control Programmatic process improvements, focusing on streamlining processes and eliminating over-prescriptive requirements.
• Provide overall leadership and direction to 5 managers, 10 supervisors, and 72 work planners supporting construction, maintenance, and R&D work control planning across the NNSS and satellite locations.
• Provide Senior Management oversight of two Work Management Centers responsible for scheduling and deconfliction of work in support of two nuclear facilities.
• Offer senior management support to subordinate managers and supervisors for issues unresolved at lower levels.
• Oversee the Integrated Planning Administration Group (IPAG) to ensure timely work request processing, appropriate work order closure, and compliance with records management.
• Monitor Integrated Work Control performance using metrics and key performance indicators; identify and evaluate trends, determine courses of action, define objectives, and evaluate outcomes.
• Attend critiques and resolve issues identified through risk and issues boards, providing process knowledge to aid in effective corrective actions to mitigate further risk.
• Attend stakeholder meetings, providing necessary updates and input to drive objectives.
• Establish strong working relationships with stakeholders, using earned influence to drive mutually beneficial objectives and "win-win" outcomes.
• Ensure sufficient staffing of work planners to support organizational mission needs through collaboration with execution organizational management.
• Responsible for the performance of both the Construction and Services, and Maintenance and R&D Planning departments, ensuring compliance with governing processes and high-quality deliverables to customers.
• Achieve 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.
• Ensure proper flow-down of information regarding Work Planning & Control (WP&C) process updates and communications to key stakeholders and execution management.
• Maintain quality service by enforcing quality and customer service standards; analyzing and resolving quality and customer service problems; identifying trends; and recommending system improvements.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent training and experience, plus a minimum of 14 years of related and progressively responsible experience. 
• Master’s degree in related field is highly desired. 
• Must have experience implementing Work Planning & Control in DOE Nuclear and High-Hazard facilities within the last 5 years.
• Highly desirable t