Senior Scientist

If you're looking for an interesting, fulfilling career, you've come to the right place! 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 looking for a dynamic Senior Scientist to support the Aerial Measuring System (AMS) program. AMS is a program within the Department of Energy's Nuclear Emergency Support Team (NEST) that supports state, local, tribal, territorial, and national governments during a radiological emergency. AMS provides specialized airborne radiation detection systems to provide real-time highly sensitive measurements of radiation. The AMS team consists of scientists, technicians, pilots, and ground support personnel. These trained experts oversee maintaining a state of readiness to respond to a radiological emergency at any time. They are also responsible for conducting training and participating in exercise activities. This position is located at the Remote Sensing Laboratory-Andrews (RSL-A), on Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. To learn more, please check out these videos: 

https://www.ans.org/webinars/view-rsl2021/ 

https://nnss.gov/mission/global-security-programs/remote-sensing-laboratory

Key Responsibilities

• Collect, analyze and interpret radiological data from airborne and ground-based platforms, during exercises, trainings and real-world incidents.
• Maintain the ability to present analytical results to a technical or non-technical audience.

• Attain and maintain programmatic training, qualifications, and medical fitness requirements to serve as an active emergency responder. 

• Utilize specialized tools and applications to calculate potential impact on the public, workers, and the environment to support radiological emergencies

• Serve on at least one of the National-level Nuclear Incident response teams for the NEST assets.

• Ability to deploy worldwide for exercises and responses, with as little as two hours’ notice when on call.
• Maintain training and ensure job-specific qualifications remain current; as well as attend onsite and off-site training as necessary to maintain competency.
• Assist in developing training materials and deliver training to emergency responders across the DOE community and other partners.

• Operate radiation detection equipment in field operations.

• Support real world missions with the possibility of collecting data while on a helicopter or fixed wing aircraft. 
• Contribute to the development and testing of software applications specific to radiological emergency response activities.
• Provide scientific guidance on projects involving an interdisciplinary team of engineers, software developers, scientists, and technicians.
• Maintain subject matter expertise and proficiency on detection equipment to instruct during courses or offer troubleshooting during operations or events. 
• Develop and design scientific and technical content for training exercises.
• Coordinate assigned work with other personnel as directed.
• Perform other