Research Operations Support Professional

Requisition Id 14879 

 

Overview:

We are seeking an entry level operations support professional to meet expanding needs for operational excellence to accomplish the ORNL cutting-edge scientific research mission.  This position will work as part of an integrated team that has responsibility for operations and facility management tasks associated with work control and facility operations in support of science and engineering activities. Additionally, this position will provide operational and project management support to research staff to maintain compliance with all applicable Federal and State laws, DOE Orders, and ORNL policies and procedures regarding work control, space utilization, and facility operations management. This position resides in the Integrated Research Operations Support group in the Safety & Operations Support Division and will be matrixed to support one of the eight R&D directorates at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). 

 

Major Duties/Responsibilities: 

• Serve as a Division work control point-of-contact (POC)/work planner for work control documentation (such as research safety summaries (RSS) and/or Activity Plans), which serves as documentation for hazard identification and control. In so doing, coordinates the document reviews to ensure sufficient peer and SME review and to ensure all are approved and authorized within the proper timeframe.

• Facilitate completion of the operational activities deemed necessary through the work control process or as requested by researchers to enable research objectives in a manner that ensures the safe and compliant execution of the research mission.

• Schedule and participate in laboratory compliance walkthroughs.

• Serve as a Hazardous Materials Management representative to assist research staff with maintaining, organizing, and reconciling chemical inventories.

• Participate in assessments to verify compliance and program effectiveness associated with the assigned Directorate.

• Abide by and promote the Battelle Safe Conduct of Research principles including being personally responsible for ensuring safe operations, raising safety concerns, using a questioning attitude, considering hazards for every task and where learning never stops.

• Continually seek ways to increase operational efficiencies and improve safety culture in support of the research mission and champion initiatives to do so.

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

 

Basic Qualifications:

• BS degree

• 0-2 years of technical experience is desired.

 

 Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working as a team player in an ever-changing, multi-discipline, multi-task and integrated/functional organizational environment which requires interfacing with management, researchers, facility users/visitors and operations staff.

• Experience with work control processes in a research and development environment and/or industrial environment.

• Demonstrated excellence in interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.

• Ability to prioritize work and manage multiple projects simultaneously.

• Strong organizational and time management skills and ability to meet inflexible deadlines on own initiative.

• Experience in the DOE system and ORNL systems such as the Research Hazard Analysis and Control System, Integrated Safety Management, SAMS, Facility Service Center, and the Hazardous Material Management Information System. 

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