DAF Deputy System Engineering Manager I

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.

Reports to the DAF Engineering Manager.  Responsible for management of DAF engineers and engineering activities associated with the DAF Electrical, Mechanical, & Communications and Civil, Structural, & Architectural groups.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand and maintain the assigned systems design requirements per the DAF Documented Safety Analysis.
• Ensure that design output documents appropriately reflect the design basis and required functional classification of the assigned DAF Structures, Systems and Components (SSCs).
• Assure that the design requirements and design basis are fully identified and in a form compatible to maintain and control the design basis.
• Authorize facility Configuration Management changes and manage the configuration of assigned DAF facility systems.
• Provide technical support in the areas of construction, maintenance, and nuclear operations.
• Coordinate with engineers, project managers, and maintenance personnel to ensure proper testing and documentation is developed to support component and system specifications, functions, and operability.
• Develop and maintain engineering documents, reports, and correspondence to enable business activity.
• Must effectively communicate to confer and gather information from subject matter experts for inclusion into specifications to ensure technical accuracy and completeness of the content.
• Perform a wide range of tasks and special assignments that require comprehensive knowledge of engineering processes and procedures with the ability to analyze, interpret, and make recommendations.
• Maintain staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, and developing growth opportunities for employees.
• Maintain a safe, secure, and legal work environment.
• Accomplish 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.
• Create an environment where employees feel safe to raise issues, empowered to address issues, and supported to resolve issues.
• Demonstrate environment, safety, health, and quality leadership and consistently enforce environment, safety, health, and quality policies and procedures.
• Implement applicable environment, safety, health, and quality requirements; emphasize the safety of each employee, and the protection of equipment and property in area of responsibility.
• Take immediate action to correct reported or observed unacceptable environment, safety, health and quality conditions and/or behaviors.
• Assure that appropriate procedures, training, equipment, warnings, and tools are provided to employees to permit work to be performed safely.
• Effectively interface and communicate with MSTS leadership, National Weapons Lab personnel, Nevada Field Office (NFO), and Defense Nuclear Safety Board (DNFSB) representatives.
• Promote and actively participate in the Mission Support and Test Services (MSTS) safety concept.
• Support and encourage employee participation in MSTS environment, safety, health, and quality initiatives.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent training and experience, plus a minimum of 11 years of related and progressively responsible experience.
• DOE STD 3009 is preferred, however, experience working in a government regulated industry is acceptable.