Manager 1, Environment, Safety, and Health (ES&H)

Job Description

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.
  
  

Responsibilities

The Nevada National Security Sites (NNSS) is seeking a Manager 1 candidate that can demonstrate environment, safety, and health (ES&H) leadership. This position requires understanding of core industrial hygiene principles to ensure work places are maintained free from recognized health hazards.

Key Responsibilities

• Demonstrate environment, safety, and health (ES&H) leadership.
• Creates an environment where employees feel safe to raise issues, empowered to address issues, and supported to resolve issues.
• Manages and represents the Industrial Hygiene department to support Legal, ADA, and Occupational Medicine.
• Ensures adequate staff are available to support operations and projects.
• Maintains familiarity of underground operations, SEO HHF operations, risk assessments, hazard analysis, and exposure assessments.
• Ability to provide effective leadership for ES&H customers such as SEO HHF in a timely manner and ensure operational compliance with applicable regulations such as 10 CFR 850, 10 CFR 851, and customer specific requirements.
• Provide guidance for resolving IH issues that are entered into caWeb and assist with implementing the requested action items for closure.
• Communicate with ES&H Management, Nevada Field Office (NFO), and Joint Laboratory Office – Nevada (JLON) points of contact (POCs), and other MSTS customers. Acts as the primary interface between JLON and Mission Support and Test Services (MSTS) industrial hygiene teams to resolve discrepancies, conflicts, and concerns.
• Accomplishes financial objectives by forecasting requirements, preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures, procuring supplies, and initiating corrective actions
• Ensures ESH company directives and procedures are relevant, effective, and up to date.
• Create presentations, metrics, and reports for senior management on a regular basis including but not limited to tier meetings, SMP presentations, DMOR updates, etc.
• Develop, track, and manage key performance indicators (metrics) for multiple organizational programs and responsibilities. Ability to use applicable data trending software such as Power BI and experience managing large databases such as Open Range, are preferred.
• Maintains quality service by enforcing quality and customer service standards, analyzing and resolving quality and customer service problems, identifying trends, and recommending improvements.
• Accomplishes ES&H 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.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, benchmarking state-of-the-art practices, and participating in professional societies.
• Mentor and manage multiple key experienced OS&IH roles/responsibilities to include Subject Matter Experts and POCs.
• Accomplishes ES&H 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.
• Responsible for assigned operational services and for assisting the line officials/supervisors with implementing policies and procedures as they relate to ES&H.
• Champions the Beyond Zero Culture of Caring to enhance teamwork and safety culture among the enterprise.
• Responsible for serving as the ES&H subcontract technical representative (STR) for multiple ES&H specific subcontracts such as mold remediation efforts.
• Oversee the implementation of ES&H Job Hazard Analysis (JHAs) in activity level work documents site wide.
• Responsible for assigned operational services and for assisting the line officials/supervisors with implementing policies and procedures as they relate to ES&H.
• Manage the battery room/UPS system program at the NNSS to include data trending, providing status reports to senior leadership and overall UPS guidance.
• Perform other duties as assigned by management.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in industrial Hygiene or equivalent training and experience, plus a minimum of 11 years of related and progressively responsible experience.
• Must have experience with the Subcontract Technical Representative (STR) and procurement processes.
• Must have experience with the performance review process, dealing with human resources, legal, and ADA professionals.
• Must possess excellent interpersonal skills and ability to deal with all types of people in a tactful, professional, and effective manner while screening and maintaining confidentiality.
• Directly oversee the work of two or more employees.
• Experience with supporting SEO HHF facilities and with using Power BI is preferred.
• Ability to coach, supervise, lead, and mentor employees. Experience with performance management in Oracle is preferred.
• Ability to develop budgets, metrics, delegate, and make timely decisions.
• Attention to detail, and high degree of accuracy required in writing technical documents and ensuring all Company policies and procedures are followed.
• Ability to deal with pressure of handling multiple tasks, complaints, frequent interruptions, and time constraints.
• Proficient knowledge of the profession they are to supervise.
• Ability in Performance Management.
• Ability in Project Management.
• Ability to coach, supervise, and mentor employees.
• Knowledge of quality management.
• Ability to achieve results.
• Ability to develop budgets, standards, and metrics.
• Ability to foster teamwork.
• Ability to handle pressure.
• Ability to give constructive feedback.
• Ability to delegate.
• Ability to manage conflict.
• Ability to make timely decision.
• Ability to problem solve.
• The primary work location will be at the NNSS (located 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada). Dedicated time is allocated to support SEO HHF at the NNSS, battery/UPS areas site wide, and supporting activity level work documents. The work schedule will be 4/10s (Monday-Thursday).
• Work schedule will be 4/10s Monday through Thursday (subject to change).
• Pre-placement physical examination, which includes a drug screen, is required. MSTS maintains a substance abuse policy that includes random drug testing.
• Must possess a valid driver’s license.
  
  

MSTS is required by DOE directive to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants offered employment with MSTS are also subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment. In addition, Applicants for employment must be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship, at least 18 years of age. Reference DOE Order 472.2 , “Personnel Security”. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.

Department of Energy Q Clearance (position will be cleared to this level). Reviews and tests for the absence of any illegal drug as defined in 10 CFR Part 707.4 , “Workplace Substance Abuse Programs at DOE Sites,” will be conducted. Applicant selected will be subject to a Federal background investigation, required to participate in subsequent reinvestigations, and must meet the eligibility requirements for access to classified matter. Successful completion of a counterintelligence evaluation, which may include a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination, may also be required. Reference 10 CFR Part 709 , “Counterintelligence Evaluation Program.”

MSTS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. MSTS is a background screening, drug-free workplace.

Annual salary range for this position is: $124,238.40 - 198,785.60.

Starting salary is determined based on the position market value, the individual candidate education and experience and internal equity.