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Field Design Support Manager

Y-12 National Security Complex
tuition reimbursement, 401(k)
United States, Tennessee, Oak Ridge
May 14, 2025

Job Title: ENG- Y Field Design Support Manager

Location: Oak Ridge, TN

Career Level From: Manager

Career Level To: Manager

Organization: Y-12 Division Managed Design (51392268)

Job Specialty: Core Engineering

What You'll Do

Provide technical direction and administrative supervision for engineers and technical staff providing design support to production operations, facilities and utilities organizations. Ensure a sense of urgency in providing support for troubleshooting issues, providing compensatory measures and proposing repairs or modifications. Evaluate emergent issues to determine scope of support required and engage engineering disciplines as necessary. The role includes estimating, forecasting, specifying components, designing, procurement and construction support.

Work with the facility manager/system engineer/system health manager, et al, on the preparation and definition of proposed modifications within a facility or plant-wide systems and with the designated project engineer, if applicable, to develop and ensure that the modification work scopes are complete.

Provide technical supervision and coordination of staff functions including applying appropriate quality requirements, reviewing impacts to safety-related SSCs, and ensuring that designs and/or equivalency evaluations satisfy relevant technical and change management requirements.

Maintain schedule tracking with sufficient detail to inform the Control Account Manager (CAM) of project status. Work with EP&C, Programs, Production, and Projects to ensure estimating, scheduling, and execution of Design Engineering tasks is in alignment with mission goals. Ensure adherence to CNS Core Values, Conduct of Engineering and Operating Principles for all responsible activities. Develop and provide qualified technical resources to execute Design Engineering functions in support of Production Operations and Y-12 Projects.

Ensure that staff members apply the expertise needed to resolve design and equipment issues in cooperation with the cognizant Design Authority Representative, Engineering Chiefs and other related technical disciplines. Ensure that personnel have sufficient hardware and software resources to complete assigned tasks. Coordinate with Engineering senior management to ensure effective implementation of Design Engineering processes in area of responsibility and that appropriately qualified personnel are deployed to support the successful delivery of the Y-12 Engineering mission work tasks.

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 in engineering/science/information technology discipline from an Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accredited program in the United States or designated equivalents from Canada or Mexico, the Washington Accord, or the list of substantially equivalent as documented by ABET
  • Minimum 7years of relevant experience.
  • In addition, the applicant must meet the requirements of DOE O 426.2A (i.e., Baccalaureate in engineering or related scientific major and 4 years nuclear experience; or a DOE O 426.2A alternative).DOE 426.2A experience requirements can be satisfied following employment. In the interim, newly hired personnel will not be assigned duties that could impact the safety basis of nuclear facilities. (Ref. DOE O 426.2A)

Preferred Job Requirements

  • Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering.
  • A Professional Engineering License (PE).
  • Minimum 3 yrs Management or Supervision Experience.
  • Experience in 3D engineering/modeling and machine design experience (preferably with gloveboxes, furnaces, high vacuum systems and metal casting/machining equipment)
  • Experience leading multi-discipline (i.e. mechanical, electrical, instrumentation/controls, HVAC, piping, welding, etc.) machine design efforts and producing build to print equipment fabrication packages, including fabrication drawings, specification, calculations, etc.
  • Experience with engineering calculations/analysis associated with machine design (i.e. finite element analysis, structural and seismic analysis, ergonomic studies, kinematic calculations, heat transfer calculations, etc.)
  • Experience writing equipment fabrication specifications for specialty designed equipment
  • Knowledgeable in respective technical standards, principles, theories, concepts, and techniques
  • Experience with Pro/Engineer (CREO) CAD software
  • Ability to work in a project team environment and communicate well with other disciplines, customers, and stakeholders
  • Ability to follow procedures and work within a rigorous work process
  • Ability to estimate, plan, and track progress for preparation of discipline deliverables
  • Good written and oral communications skills

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 without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, genetic information, disability or veteran status.
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