Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Job Title: ADO System Health Lead
Career Level From: Senior Associate
Career Level To: Specialist
Job Specialty: Nuclear/High Hazard Operations
What You'll Do
The System Health Lead directly oversees activities within their functional areas to improve the reliability and availability of system equipment. This role is crucial for advocating for equipment and facilities, prioritizing maintenance strategies (predictive, preventative, and corrective), and ensuring optimal system availability for mission deliverables while minimizing impacts to the Production schedule. The System Health Lead monitors operational asset performance, trends, and proactively addresses equipment bottlenecks and single point failures to foster a culture of operational excellence. They are also responsible for developing funding strategies, investigating equipment health issues, and enhancing maintenance program effectiveness.
Responsibilities:
- Advocates for equipment and facilities, developing prioritizing methodology for areas of responsibility, including predictive, preventative, and corrective maintenance, providing technical input for equipment sustainment.
- Utilize the SAP Maintenance Application to prioritize and manage maintenance backlog across the Y-12 Complex.
- Supports the development of a holistic asset management planning strategy to maximize system availability for mission deliverables, while reducing production schedule impacts.
- Monitors operational asset performance and availability/reliability trends, reviewing data to make informed decisions.
- Support Facility Health Review Committees in conducting consistent and comprehensive reviews of system health reports and equipment performance trends.
- Develop a proactive culture by working with internal customers to understand production deliverables, prioritizing equipment bottlenecks and single point failures.
- Identify areas for maintenance program effectiveness and efficiency enhancements, collaborating with cross-functional teams for process improvements.
- Develop Future Years Nuclear Security Program (FYNSP) funding strategies that minimize risk and maximize asset capabilities and reliability/optimization.
- Develop investigation reports and analysis studies in coordination with Reliability Engineering to identify equipment health issues, defects, and root causes for failures.
- Monitor the execution of preventative maintenance programs to ensure expectations are met.
- Utilize the Ranking Index for Maintenance Expenditures (RIME) number within the SAP Prioritize Work Application to establish expectations for executing maintenance and engineering tasks.
- Serve as the management system owner for tools used for system health monitoring, including resolving issues affecting report generation and incorporating improvement suggestions.
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 Production Support to mitigate risks that effect mission deliverables.
- To Plant Health 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 and 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.
Minimum Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree: Minimum 2 years of relevant experience.
- OR Master’s degree: Minimum 1 year of relevant experience.
- OR PhD: N/A.
- 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.
Why Y-12?
You get #morethanajob. We encourage employees to achieve a healthy personal balance among home, work and the community. One of the ways we embrace work-life balance is by offering flexible work arrangements that provide alternatives to the traditional workweek, while still meeting business needs. Top talent and personal commitment mean more to our success than any other factors, so we reward our people with the kinds of benefits that make a positive difference in the quality of their lives. Benefits such as: medical plan, prescription drug plan, vision plan, dental plan, employer matched 401(k) savings plan, disability coverage, education reimbursement and many more. Want to stay healthy and fit but hate the cost of a gym membership? Take advantage of one of our onsite workout facilities and eat healthy in our onsite cafeterias. Much more than a workplace, at Y-12, you can build a career that lasts a lifetime.
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.
CNS is a drug-free workplace. Candidates accepting a job offer will be required to pass a pre-placement physical, drug screening and background investigation. As an employee, you may be required to receive and maintain a security clearance from the United States Department of Energy in order to meet eligibility requirements for access to sensitive information or matter. U.S. citizenship is a requirement for security clearance applicants. All employees are subject to being randomly selected for drug testing without advance notification.
CNS is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment based on merit and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status or disability.
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