Job DescriptionResponsibilitiesKey Responsibilities- Collect, analyze, and interpret radiological data from airborne and ground-based platforms during exercises, training, and real-world incidents.
- Maintain the ability to present analytical results to a technical or non-technical audience.
- Attain and maintain qualifications, programmatic training and medical fitness requirements to serve as an active emergency responder.
- Utilize specialized tools and applications to calculate potential impacts to 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-hour notice when on call.
- Provide mentorship and guidance to scientific and technical staff.
- Provide scientific guidance on projects involving an interdisciplinary team of engineers, physicists, and technicians.
- Select and bring new scientific methods to bear.
- 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 the development of company and emergency response guidelines, manuals, procedures, etc.
- Develop and implement corrective actions and lessons learned.
- Develop training materials and deliver training to emergency responders across the DOE community and other partners.
- Prepare technical reports, recommendations, documentation, publications, and proposals.
- Organize, evaluate, and interpret data by comparison against standards and guidelines.
- Plan and conduct work requiring judgment in the evaluation, selection, application, adaptation, and modification of standard techniques, guidelines, procedures, and criteria.
- Conduct test and evaluation of radiation detection equipment and acquisition/analysis software.
- Provide expertise, feedback, and input into the development of improved radiation detection systems and analysis algorithms.
- Provide scientific guidance on projects involving an interdisciplinary team of engineers, software developers, scientists, and technicians.
- Operate radiation detection equipment in field operations.
- 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.
- Provide direction for specific activities as assigned.
- Perform other duties as assigned by Supervisor/Manager.
- In addition to fulfilling basic ESH&Q obligations:
• Must address all aspects of safety in design and execution of work.
• Work may affect public health and safety.
Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in Health Physics, Nuclear Engineering or a similar calculus-based (STEM) field, plus 9 years' relevant experience. Skill building experience must demonstrate either deeper technical specialization or additional cross-disciplinary knowledge. Ph.D. is preferred.
- Experience with one or more of the following is highly desired: gamma-ray spectroscopy, operational health physics, customer service and/or training development and delivery, scientific computational tools (Python, MatLab, LaTex, etc).
- Additional enhancing experience includes: aviation, aviation operations, MCNP or other transport codes, numerical methods, advanced mathematics, Geospatial Information Systems (GIS), programming.
- Must have strong written and oral communications skills and must show a demonstrated ability to work on complex applied projects in a group atmosphere.
- Must have the ability to interface effectively with technical personnel from other MSTS organizations, outside organizations, and government agencies.
- Must be willing and able to perform work during non-standard hours, take on-call duty, and deploy worldwide on short notice.
- Must be able to perform critical job functions while under high stress environments such as those presented in real world deployments.
- Must be able to meet Company requirements for worldwide travel including medical physical and immunizations.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain SCI accesses.
- Ability to work independently or in a team environment on a wide variety of tasks.
- Must be able to lift 50 lbs.
- Must be able to participate in National Response Asset Deployment activities, including flight onboard government aircraft for missions and deployments.
- The primary work location will be at the Remote Sensing Laboratory-Andrews on Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.
- Employees are able to choose from the following work schedules: 4/10s, Monday through Thursday; 9/80, off every other Friday; and 5/8s, Monday through Friday. (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.
Annual salary range for this position is: $121,867.20 - $ 185,848.00.
Starting salary is determined based on the position market value, the individual candidate education and experience and internal equity.
