Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Job Title: Performance Assurance Action Officer
Career Level From: Associate
Career Level To: Senior Associate
Job Specialty: Business Planning
What You'll Do
The Performance Assurance Business Office is looking for an Action Officer to facilitate the organization’s performance reporting, monitoring, and tracking of internal and external commitments and deliverables; represent the PA organization on a variety of business and administrative matters; and assist with project management and act as the representative to maintain task-based subcontracts and vendor subcontracts within PA. The Action Officer role reports directly to the PA Business Office Advisor and assists in the smooth operation of the organization’s business functions.
Performance Assurance Action Officer responsibilities:
- Collaborate with the PA Business Office, Performance Assurance Senior Directors, and various executive leadership team members to arrange meetings, events, and programs as directed.
- Assist with the development of presentations for the Board of Managers, Performance Self-Assessment, Organizational Health Review, Significant Events Council, and other high impact senior level meetings.
- Perform a wide array of duties as required by daily operations. This includes managing special projects for the Business Office, ensuring they meet the customer satisfaction goals and objectives; creating and updating metrics reports and dashboards for the PA organization; analyzing and preparing reports on statistical data and information covering various function areas including issues management, environmental health/safety, government deliverables, prime contracting, human resources, programs and budgets, etc.; ensuring internal assessments and actions are completed and submitted per schedule; and assisting where requested.
- Serve as the subcontract technical representative to provide oversight for vendor service subcontracts, basic ordering agreements, and task order subcontracts within Performance Assurance.
- Manage the development and approval process of organizational Statement of Works; approve invoices, track deliverables, monitor and ensure reporting is timely.
- Interface and coordinate with internal organizations, as well as with the Procurement organization and the subcontracting entities, to plan, award, and execute subcontracts in support of complex and multi-discipline objectives.
- Manage contracted project scope through meetings, correspondence, and stakeholder engagement; improve efficiency and management of subcontracts through bid, award, on-boarding, and initial execution; gather and provide feedback to subcontractors to improve overall performance of subcontracts in PA.
- Act as the DC Reviewer and Division Security Officer for the PA organization.
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
- OR Master's degree
- OR 8 or more years of education and/or relevant experience may be considered to satisfy educational and years-of-experience requirements for this posting.
Preferred Job Requirements
- Experience in various business functions which may include managing budgets, subcontract oversight, creating metrics, and developing presentations for senior leadership
- Strong interpersonal skills and excellent oral and written communications skills
- Current or previous experience as an Subcontract Technical Representative
- Ability to conduct formal presentations to plant personnel and other interested parties
- Ability to provide clear, constructive feedback to vendors associated with performance
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.
This position may require entry into the Material Access Areas (MAA) and participation in the Human Reliability Program (10 C.F.R. Part 712), which requires successful competition of a DOE counterintelligence evaluation and may include a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination.
This position may be categorized as a “designated position” identified by 10 C.F.R. Part 709, requiring successful completion of a DOE counterintelligence evaluation that may include a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination.
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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