Secure Transport Response Specialist

Requisition Id 14605 

­­Overview:  

As a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national laboratory, ORNL has an impressive 80-year legacy of addressing the nation’s most pressing challenges. Our team is made up of over 7,000 dedicated and innovative individuals! Our goal is to create an environment where a variety of perspectives and backgrounds are valued, ensuring ORNL is known as a top choice for employment. These principles are essential for supporting our broader mission to drive scientific breakthroughs and translate them into solutions for energy, environmental, and security challenges facing the nation.

 

The Transportation Security Engineering and Analysis Group (TSEA) group within ORNL's Nuclear Nonproliferation Division (NND) of the National Security Sciences Directorate (NSSD) seeks applications for a Secure Transport Response Specialist. Responsibilities include creating effective response capabilities to assist ORNL’s engagement with strategic partners to develop and implement response capabilities. Work activities performed by NND are primarily sponsored by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Office of Global Material Security (GMS).

 

As part of our team, you will lead and manage ORNL’s transportation response strategies to improve U.S. domestic and regional capabilities.   This includes work with regulators, carriers, response personnel, facility officials, and other collaborators having stewardship of high-risk materials, including nuclear and radioactive material. 

 

 

Major Duties/Responsibilities: 

• Conduct response program assessment and evaluation. 
  • Provide technical support for risk and vulnerability assessments on transportation security conveyance designs to identify and enhance system effectiveness. 
  • Lead and support tabletop exercises
  • Develop/support transportation security field training exercises
  • Support the test and evaluation of responders and response technologies
• Develop, collect and share knowledge and access to information to help promote better response capabilities, tactics, techniques, and procedures.
• Engage federal, state, and local organizations to plan and implement effective vehicle/convoy escorting techniques.

• Work with partners to enhance response to an incident/event through technical and operational measures and approaches.
• Lead development of training classes and curricula.
• Research emerging technologies for impact on response forces and law enforcement (both as a benefit and a threat to response organizations)
• Promote transportation security awareness, challenges, and threats within the response and law enforcement communities.
• Identify and develop secure transportation “Best Practices” on topics such as security escorts, staff development, equipment selection and sustainability.
• Develop and advance Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for response organizations.

• Travel to support domestic and international engagements related to work scope, including leading and facilitating trainings, workshops, exercises, technical exchanges, and meetings.
• Track and control schedule, budget, and costs for project activities.
• Analyze data and information to assess the need for, progress of, or outcome of project work.

 

All team members 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 in a relevant technical field readying the candidate for transportation security of nuclear and radioactive material domestical