Job Description

Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Job Title: System Health Lead
Career Level From: Senior Associate
Career Level To: Senior Specialist
Job Specialty: Nuclear/High Hazard Operations

What You'll Do

Site Operations System Health Lead directly manages activities for their functional areas of responsibility that will result in improving the reliability and availability of system equipment.

Responsibilities:

The System Health Lead is responsible for, but not limited to, the following:

• Advocate for Equipment and Facilities, developing prioritizing methodology for areas of responsibility, to include predictive, preventative, and corrective maintenance.
• Utilize the SAP Maintenance Application to prioritize and manage maintenance backlog across the Y-12 Complex.
• Support the development of a holistic asset management planning strategy that maximizes system availability for Mission Deliverables while reducing impacts to the Production schedule.
• Monitor operational asset performance and availability/reliability trends.
• Supporting the Facility Health Review Committees in the orderly conduct of consistent and comprehensive reviews of system health reports and equipment performance trends.
• Developing a proactive culture, work with internal customers to understand production deliverables to better prioritize equipment bottlenecks and single point failures.
• Development of Future Years Nuclear Security Program (FYNSP) funding strategies that minimizes risk and maximizes asset capabilities and reliability/optimization.
• Develop investigation reports and analysis studies in coordination with Reliability Engineering to identify equipment health issues, defects, and root cause for failures.
• Identifying areas where maintenance program effectiveness or efficiency can be enhanced and working with cross-functional teams to bring about improvement to processes.
• Monitoring execution of preventative maintenance programs to ensure execution meets expectations.
• Utilizing the Ranking Index for Maintenance Expenditures [RIME] number within the SAP Prioritize Work Application to establish and provide the necessary expectations for executing maintenance and engineering tasks.
• Serving as the management system owner for the tools utilized for system health monitoring, including resolution of issues affecting the generation of system health reports and/or incorporation of improvement suggestions based on field use.

Accountabilities:

• To the System Health Manager for maximizing the System(s) Health for functional areas of responsibility, minimize equipment downtime, and enable production mission accomplishment.
• To the Production Support Organization to mitigate risks that effect Mission Deliverables.
• To the Plant Health Organization for supporting the Aging Asset Management Program (AAMP) that holistically manages infrastructure and programmatic equipment risk across the Y-12 Complex.
• Stakeholder coordination to include Production, Engineering, Maintenance, Inspection Services, ES&H, and more.

Authorities:

• Authorized to communicate Site Operations - System Health priorities for long-term sustainment needs involved in equipment budgeting and maintenance activities.
• Authorized to represent Site Operations - System Health in meetings established to identify and prioritize activities that resolve equipment availability issues and promote equipment reliability.

What You Can Expect

• Meaningful work and unique opportunities to support missions vital to national and global security.
• Top-notch, dedicated colleagues.
• Generous pay and benefits with a stable organization.
• Career advancement and professional development programs.
• Work-life balance fostered through flexible work options and wellness initiatives.

Certificates/Security Clearances/Other

Notes

The minimum education and experience for the lowest career level in the job posting range are listed under Minimum Job Requirements. Successful candidates hired into a higher career level than the minimum in the range must meet the requirements listed in the job leveling charts for the career level into which they are being hired.

If a range of Career Levels is posted, i.e., Senior Associate to Senior Specialist, internal applicants already in one of the Career Levels would come across at their current Career Level. Internal applicants currently in a lower level Career Level would move to the lowest posted Career Level.

Requires a Q clearance; however all qualified candidates will be considered regardless of their current clearance status. The ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy Q clearance is required.

Position may require entry into Materials Access Areas (MAA) and participation in the Human Reliability Program (HRP). If HRP is required, candidate must complete a counterintelligence-scope polygraph, pursuant to 10CFR 709. Medical requirements may apply.

Additional Qualifications/Responsibilities

Minimum Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree: Minimum 2 years of relevant experience.
• OR Master's degree: Minimum 1 year of relevant experience.
• OR PhD.
• Ten (10) or more years of education and/or relevant experience may be considered to satisfy educational and years-of-experience requirements for this posting.
• In addition, the applicant must meet the requirements of DOE O 426.2A (i.e., High School diploma and 3 years nuclear experience; or a DOE O 426.2A alternative).

Preferred Job Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience with either electrical/mechanical systems, chemical processing/recovery systems, machining equipment, or maintenance planning/scheduling.
• Experience leading or supporting process improvement projects that resulted in increasing operational performance with in a production facility.