Nuclear weapons specialist job description

To obtain and maintain employment and unescorted access at DCPP, you must be able to pass a drug and alcohol screen, a security background check, psychological screen, computer-based training, and be subject to random drug and alcohol screening.

Job Responsibilities

• Drives the strategic force behind the effort to improve outage performance including implementing new processes and creating new external sourcing arrangements for their area of responsibility.
• Oversees and refines cost reduction initiatives related to their area of responsibility
• Identifies and drives gap initiative efforts to reduce outage duration for their area of responsibility
• Initiates and oversees improvements in outage processes based on most recent refueling outage critiques for their area of responsibility.
• Identifies methods, approaches, and tactics to resolve problems and obtain solutions.
• Identifies and implements technology solutions to streamline and automate routine outage planning related activities.
• May participate on project teams.
  

Qualifications

Minimum:

• High School or GED-General Educational Development-GED Diploma
• Job-related experience, 3 years

Desired:

• Previous Reactor Operator (RO) or Senior Reactor Operator (SRO) license; or SRO Certification at DCPP
• BS Degree in Science/Engineering
• Three years of nuclear power plant operations experience
• PMP Certification
  

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Global Engineering & Technology (GET) is seeking qualified individuals for the position of Nuclear Weapons Subject Matter Expert (SME) in support of the Department of Energy's Office of Classification in Germantown, Maryland.

This is a highly compensated, long-term, on-site position at the Department of Energy facility in Germantown, Maryland. This position provides relocation support to the Germantown area.

The SME conducts classification review and analysis of government material in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, DOE orders, and DOE Office of Classification procedures for Restricted Data (RD), Formerly Restricted Data (FRD), and National Security Information (NSI) technical areas such as:
Nuclear weapon design, development, testing, production, and deployment

Weapon science

Inertial confinement fusion (ICF)

Ballistic missile and/or reentry body/vehicle design, development, testing, production, and deployment

Special nuclear material (SNM) production technologies such as, but not limited to, isotope separation technologies (atomic vapor laser isotope separation, gaseous diffusion, gas centrifuge, etc.) and nuclear material processing

Counterintelligence and nuclear intelligence

Military utilization of nuclear weapons and nuclear weapon effects

Nuclear nonproliferation (technology and/or safeguards programs)

Radiological weapons and improvised nuclear devices

Space nuclear reactors and naval nuclear propulsion

Requirements

Security Clearance:

MUST possess an active DOE Q clearance or an active DoD Top Secret clearance

Experience & Skills:

The SME shall:

Have at least five (5) years' total field experience working in one or more of the nuclear-related subject areas described in the bullet points above.

Have direct experience in the nuclear weapon programs and related activities at DOE and/or DoD, and have some familiarity with classification and sensitive information-related activities.

Have comprehensive, detailed knowledge of how a thermonuclear weapon is constructed and a clear understanding of why and how a thermonuclear weapon works.

Ideally, the SME will have served a two (2)-year tour of duty as a military service Military Research Associate (MRA) or other similar commercial and/or private service, at a national laboratory in the nuclear weapon area such as:

LLNL employees in Weapons and Complex Integration

a. Weapon Physics and Design Program

b. Weapon Technologies and Engineering

c. Weapon Simulation and Computing

LANL employees in Weapons Program

a. Weapons Physics

b. Weapons Production

c. Weapons Engineering

SNL employees in Nuclear Weapons Program

a. Weapons Engineering

b. Research and Development

c. Stockpile Management and Stewardship

d. Weapons Science & Technology

Military assignments/positions which involve use of weapons science/engineering/simulation

a. Certain work at DTRA and military nuclear weapons programs/facilities

b. Does not include assignments to operational units (SSBN, USSTRATCOM, etc.)

NNSA Production Facilities employees whose work involves use of weapons science/engineering/simulation

a. KCNSC employees in nuclear security mission whose work includes use of weapon design/science/engineering information

b. Y-12 employees whose work includes use of weapon design/science/engineering information

Specialized nuclear weapon design/science/engineering training

a. Weapon Intern Program

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Please note that the above list is not comprehensive. The key aspect of any equivalent tour is exposure to information about, general understanding of, and familiarity with the “physics package,” in other words the design (configuration, materials, etc.) and functioning (physics of a thermonuclear weapon - implosion, fission, boosting, etc.). While desired, this equivalent field experience need not rise to the level of subject matter expertise in nuclear weapon design/science/engineering (found in parts of the organizations listed above, such as A, B, or Z-Division at LLNL or X-Division at LANL).

Education:

Requires a Master's degree in one of the physical sciences (or a related area of engineering) from an accredited college or university.

Benefits

We provide exceptional benefits to our full-time employees (spouse/family coverage option available at a company-subsidized rate).

Benefits include:

Medical plan options with United Health Care

Dental insurance

Long-term and Short-term Disability

Life insurance

AD&D insurance

Generous 401(k) match

All benefits are effective on day one of employment.