This position serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for Waste and Materials Management and determines the internal organization, staffing, and authorities required to accomplish the functions assigned to the Waste and Materials Management Office in the areas of management and disposition of excess material inventories; packaging and transportation systems; and complex-wide integration of waste and materials management to ensure line management accountability.

Duties

The Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Environmental Management - Headquarters is looking for a dynamic, innovative, seasoned executive to lead the Waste and Materials Management Office As the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Waste and Materials Management you will: Provide advice to the EM program and field offices and play a vital role in managing programs and directly and profoundly influence EM-wide policy and planning related decision. Exercise full managerial authority and seamless integration of all Waste and Materials Management Office policies, practices, and innovative solutions to complex EM regulatory challenges. Direct organization activities and frame strategic plan based on broad organizational assessments and evaluations of long-term organizational objectives. Set all internal control standards for effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity and assess all organizational policy, program, and project viability. Determine the financial and personnel resources needed to achieve mission objectives and support mission operations; identify the need for major organizational improvements and develop the requisite plans and direct implementing action. Oversee and direct the internal organization, staffing, policies, and personnel authorities required to carry out the responsibilities of the organization, including the recruitment of senior managers and technical experts necessary to ensure the success of the programs. Oversee execution of waste and materials disposition policies, and directives, including policy development of national waste management and material disposition initiatives. Serve as the senior EM point of contact with other DOE programs on waste and materials disposition matters to ensure integration and optimization of EM objectives and as necessary, oversee the identification of new disposal systems and direct the execution of efforts to develop and propose new systems. Support disposition of emerging waste streams and excess material inventories. Ensure the development, implementation, and maintenance of DOE-wide radioactive waste management policies and guidance in compliance with DOE statutory responsibilities related to certain civilian radioactive waste streams. Serve as a senior EM interface on the OE-wide radioactive material packaging/certification program, transportation policy, and operational support and logistics. Manage Headquarters hazardous (including radioactive) material package certification and the associated audits and inspections. Develop strategy and policy for all EM TRU waste to be disposed at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant to ensure safe and effective disposal operations. Oversee and guide the safe and effective management and disposal of EM nuclear material, represent EM for excess materials disposition policy and provide strategic advice on the evaluation of DOE disposal systems and resources, lead development of future storage and disposal systems regarding spent nuclear fuel, high-level waste and special nuclear material. Provide executive leadership of EM Waste Incidental to Reprocessing determinations per DOE Order 425.1, and coordination of waste determinations pursuant to Section 3116 of the National Defense Authorization Act of FY 2005. Represent in consultation with key Congressional officials, and high-level representatives of the DOE, private contractor business entities, and stakeholders concerning corporate EM and DOE policies and/or EM waste and materials management practices and methods - speaking with full Agency authority in all cases. Represent EM at Departmental meeting s and before external groups on matters pertaining to management of excess material inventories; packaging and transportation systems; and other matters as assigned by the Assistant Secretary, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, or Associate Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regulatory and Policy Affairs. Serve as the principal expert and consultant for all waste and materials management programs. Responsible for promoting Diversity and Equal Employment Opportunity and ensure full implementation of the Diversity, EEO, and Affirmative Employment Program Plan.

Requirements

Qualifications

The application process used to recruit for this position is the RESUME BASED method. Applicants must show possession of the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) and any technical qualifications via resume. Your resume presented will reflect that you possess the ECQs and give a synopsis of your accomplishments. Although applicants cannot address the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) separately, evidence of each must be clearly demonstrated in the five (5) page resume and throughout the entire application package. Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQs) listed later in this section below must be addressed in a separate narrative. EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQs): The five (5) ECQs described below were designed to assess executive-level experiences and potential not technical expertise. They measure whether an individual has the broad executive skills needed to succeed in a variety of SES positions. 1: Leading Change: Ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals and establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment. 2: Leading People: Ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals and provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. 3: Results Driven: Ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations, and make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks. 4: Business Acumen: Ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. 5: Building Coalitions: Ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals. MANDATORY TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (MTQs): As part of your application package, asupplemental narrative must be uploaded addressing each MTQ listed below. No more than one (1) page per MTQ is allowed; additional informational information will not be considered. MTQs must provide specific examples that address relevant experience and accomplishments. Applicants must reflect superior technical qualifications demonstrated through leadership and management in the following MTQs. Failure to submit a narrative statement addressing each of the MTQs may cause your application to be deemed incomplete and not be considered. MTQ 1: Experience in developing and implementing policies, strategies, plans, procedures, procurements, cost-benefit analyses, cost estimates and schedules and budgets, for the management, storage, transportation or disposition of low-level radioactive waste, transuranicwaste, high-level radioactive waste, nuclear materials, excess materials or DOE spent nuclear fuel inventories from the operations of nuclear/chemical processing facilities or cleanup activities in the DOE complex, another government entity, or commercial entity. MTQ 2: Demonstrated knowledge and experience directing the development and implementation of policy and guidance related to the regulatory framework of the enterprise or governing environmental cleanup, to include risk informed strategies and decision-making. MTQ 3: Skill in representing/communicating an organization's positions to senior level managers in government or private sector and to stakeholders including regulators, concerning all aspects of waste management projects and processes, policies, strategic planning, federal budget cycle, and life cycle planning.

Contacts

• Address Office of Environmental Management - Headquarters P.O. Box 5088 Oak Ridge, TN 37831 US
• Name: Debora Moss-Lopez
• Email: [email protected]