Security Specialist IV
BechtelAbout the role
Requisition ID: 277057
- Relocation Authorized: National - Family
- Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project
- Work Location: Richland, WA
- Salary Range: $105,060 - $160,220 annually (Determined by function, education, experience, and qualifications of the applicant).
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Project Overview:
Join us as we make history at the Hanford Vit Plant, known as the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant. We are designing and building a one-of-a-kind facility that will turn radioactive and chemical waste left over from World War II and Cold War plutonium production into a form safe for disposal. Your efforts will help protect the nearby Columbia River and the communities, salmon, and wildlife along its shorelines throughout the Northwest.
Sitting at the confluence of the Columbia, Snake and Yakima rivers near two mountain ranges, our community provides access to year-round outdoor recreation, 300 days of sun a year, more than 200 wineries within a 50-mile radius, and the amenities of large cities just a three-hour drive (or short flight) to Seattle and Portland.
Job Summary:
This position is a full-time role located in the Richland, Washington project office, and works a 9/80 schedule, offering every other Friday off.
- Performs a variety of Safeguards and Security (SAS) services.
- Assists with SAS investigative efforts, DOE reporting, training, security awareness activities, security requirements managements, security assessments and surveys, corrective actions, and acts as liaison with Government entities and sub-contractors on badging and other security requirements.
- Develops WTP policies and procedures that meet contract requirements and implements BNI best business practice.
- Performs assessments to ensure project personnel are complying with security requirements and ensures Project security awareness is effective, Safeguards sensitive, Official Use Only information, and Controlled Unclassified Information.
- Interfaces with WTP management/staff, DOE, and other Hanford Contractors regarding security related interests (e.g., badge approvals, policy issues, lost/stolen badges, foreign visitors).
- Interfaces and provides back up support to other Safeguards and Security personnel on an as need basis to ensure appropriate coverage and compliance.
- In absence of the WTP Safeguards and Security Manager, acts on their behalf in role of Project Security Manager.
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Major Responsibilities:
- Performs a variety of Safeguards and Security (SAS) services
- Assists with SAS database management, badge recover, DOE badge reconciliation, investigation efforts, DOE reporting, training, awareness activities, security assessments, and act as liaison with Government entities and sub-contractor on badging and other security requirements.
- Plan, initiate, manage, and be accountable for all aspects of the physical, and information (including OPSEC), security functions of the Project in support of both internal and external customers. Ensure that appropriate corrective actions are taken to rectify security related deficiencies or findings.
- Develops WTP policies and procedures that meet contract requirements and implement BNI best business practice.
- Performs assessments to ensure project personnel are complying with security requirements and ensure Project security awareness is effective, Safeguard sensitive, Official Use Only, and Controlle
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