Safeguards & Security Specialist 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.

MSTS is seeking an experienced, dynamic, self-driven, and highly motivated candidate that will assist with all aspects of the Safeguards and Security program in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as alternate Facility Security Officer (FSO).

• Perform daily Access Control duties.

• Perform employee new hire, badging, investigation/re-investigation, and security clearance administrative duties as needed.

• Assist in guiding Access Control staff and implementing initiatives for the Safeguards and Security Program at Los Alamos Operations (LAO).

• Assist in developing and implementing physical security, emergency security procedures, and personal security protection plans, programs, and criteria for Mission Support and Test Services LLC (MSTS).

• Assist in preparing specifications for contract security services, evaluating subcontractor proposals, and supervise contractor activities (i.e. Lock and Key services, alarm maintenance services, and shred services).

• Conduct audits or surveys of security programs and provide assistance and consulting services to management (this includes COMSEC, Classified Matter Protection and Control (CMPC), and Lock and Key programs).

• Organize or assist in organizing training and coordination of MSTS and LANL security teams.

• Develop security awareness programs and presents training sessions for employees at monthly meetings.

• Facilitate classified meetings in Limited Areas using classified computing equipment, classified meetings in Secure Computing areas, and classified meetings using Secure Video Teleconferencing equipment in Limited Areas.

• Perform personnel security, physical security, and unclassified foreign visit & assignment actions.

• Maintain liaison with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to determine security risk conditions potentially affecting the security of MSTS-LAO (this includes the Los Alamos Police Department, Los Alamos National Laboratory Safeguards and Security, and Central Alarm Station (CAS). 

• Respond to facility alarms at LAO during non-business hours.

• Prepare surveillance reports for security incident responses at Los Alamos Operations.

• Assist in conducting investigations of criminal acts and potential threats against MSTS's interests, coordinate investigative activities with the FSO and appropriate management, formulate written reports, and present oral briefings and assist with Incidents of Security Concerns investigations 

• Perform security incident response actions, conduct inquiries, and causal analysis.

• Assist with the annual Security Assessment of LAO.

• Travel to other MSTS locations and for training may be required.

• Bachelor’s degree in a field related to the position or equivalent training and experience plus two years of related progressive experience.

• Able to apply knowledge of principles, concepts and theory related to the position to address issues and to define and resolve problems.

• Able to exercise considerable discretion and judgment in performing work and conducting evaluations of process effectiveness.

• Able to utilize initiative and possess ability to apply knowledge and experience to resolve problems