Team Lead, Integrated Research Operations Support

Requisition Id 14180 

 

Overview:  

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) seeks a Team Lead who will focus on managing field deployed Research Operations Support Professionals who are matrixed to support the eight R&D directorates.  This position resides in the Integrated Research Operations Support group within the Safety and Operations Services Division of the Environment, Safety, Health and Quality (ESH&Q) Directorate.  In this role, the Team Lead will manage a portion of staff in the group while also directly supporting customer(s).  Approximately 33% of time will be dedicated to Team Lead functions while the remaining 67% will be dedicated to providing research operations support functions to the identified customer(s). Staff who will report to the Team Leads are well qualified operations support professionals with broad and diverse backgrounds. The Team Leads will be responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of their respective teams and the organization as a whole (budgeting, planning, staffing, recruiting, performance management, business plan execution, etc.) while providing coaching and mentoring to develop the technical and organizational strengths of their team.

 

ORNL is the largest U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) science and energy laboratory, conducting basic and applied research to deliver transformative solutions to compelling problems in energy and security.  Our diverse capabilities space a broad spectrum of scientific and engineering disciplines, enabling the Laboratory to explore fundamental science challenges and to carry out the research needed to accelerate the delivery of solutions to the marketplace.

 

Major Duties/Responsibilities (Team Lead Function):

• Provide day-to-day management of matrixed research operation support professionals.

• Establish a strong field presence that facilitates regular coaching and mentoring of staff.

• Develop and maintain positive customer relationships across ORNL.

• Support the Group Leader in executing the division and directrorate business plans and objectives.

• Deliver ORNL’s mission by aligning behaviors, priorities, and interactions with our core values of Impact, Integrity, Teamwork, Safety, and Service. Promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility by fostering a respectful workplace – in how we treat one another, work together, and measure success.

Major Duties/Responsibilities (Customer Support Function):

• Serve as a division work control point-of-contact (POC) for work control documents for hazard identification and control (i.e. Research Safety Summaries (RSSs), work plans, activity based hazard analysis (ABHA), etc.). In so doing, coordinates work control reviews to ensure sufficient peer and subject matter expert (SME) review and to ensure all documents are approved and authorized within the proper timeframe.

• Facilitate completion of the operational activities deemed necessary through the work control process or as requested by researchers to enable research objectives in a manner that ensures the safe and compliant execution of the mission.

• Serve as a Facilities Operations Manager for select facilities to ensure the facility is maintained within facility use agreement boundaries, facility work orders/statements of work are submitted to support research objectives, operated in accordance with approved lease agreements for leased facilities, space is efficiently and effectively used, access control is maintained, and emergency preparedness requirements are met.

• Serve as a Hazardous Materials Management representative to assist research staff with assessing, maintaining, organizing, and reconciling chemical inventories.

• Schedule and/or participate in laboratory compliance walkthroughs.

• Abide by and promote the Battelle Safe Conduct of Research principles including being personally responsible for ensuring safe operations, raising safety concerns, using a questioning attitude, considering hazards for every task and where learning never stops.

• Continually seek