F&TE Project Engineering Manager

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.

Facility & Testbed Engineering (F&TE) provides technical support to the nuclear and high hazard facilities using qualified cognizant system engineers to reliability and operability of their assigned systems that support the Stockpile Experimentation and Operations (SEO) directorate mission.  F&TE manages the Nuclear Material Management (NMM) Program, which is responsible for nuclear material lifecycle management at the NNSS.  The SEO Procedures and Records Group provides technical writing expertise for directives and procedures as well as records management for the nuclear and high hazard facilities and SEO processes. The F&TE Director is responsible for the execution of these objectives.

MSTS is seeking an F&TE Project Engineering Manager. The Project Engineering Manager will report to and assist the F&TE Director.  The Project Engineering Manager will provide management and leadership to the multiple Facility Engineering teams supporting Infrastructure projects at SEO nuclear and high hazard facilities. 

Key Responsibilities

• Be able to act for the F&TE Director, assuming all roles and responsibilities involving projects performed at SEO Facilities.
• Supervise F&TE multiple Lead Engineers assigned to the various projects.  Each lead engineer will be directing an engineering team.
• Mentors F&TE Engineers on the new systems created by those projects.
• Direct and monitors the qualifications of the F&TE Engineers assigned to the projects.  Then intent is that those engineers will assume the role of CSE and DA when the new systems are turned over to the facility.
• Act as the Project Design Authority.
• Coordinates technical issues between the Design Project Engineer, Nuclear Assurance, and the Facility.  Provides engineering and technical reports to the various Project Managers.
• Develop, track, and implement the following Project Documentation
• Maintenance Requirements
• Master Equipment List
• Technical Baseline
• Functional Classification Documents
• System Design Description
• Facility Change Requests
• Acceptance Test Procedures
• Configuration Management Plan
• Commissioning Plans
• Conduct Technical Reviews of the following Project Documentation
• Project Preliminary Documented Safety Analysis
• Project Design Drawings
• Project Fire Hazards Analysis
• Interface and Design Control Documents
• Develop and manage assigned budgets.
• Ensuring sufficient manning is available to support the various projects.
• Develop and manage assigned schedules
• Coordinates technical issues with the Commissioning Authority.
• Coordinates technical issues with the Readiness Manager.
• Coordinates Project priority list for the SEO Senior Director.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent training and experience, plus a minimum of 17 years of related and progressively responsible experience.
• Previous experience managing teams. 
• Must be innovative and have good problem-solving skills.
• Breadth of experience and ability to recognize, inspire and motivate others to perform well.
• Ability to negotiate creative and innovative solutions.
• Ability to enhance productivity.
• Ability to exercise clarity and directness in all forms of communication.
• Ability to improve and promote excellence.
• Ability to delegate work assignments.
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