The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (Board) is an independent agency in the executive branch chartered with the responsibility of providing recommendations and advice to the President and the Secretary of Energy regarding public health and safety issues at Department of Energy (DOE) defense nuclear facilities.

Duties

Strategic leadership:  Serve as a member of the Board’s technical leadership team and assist the Technical Director in planning, implementing, and directing the agency’s independent safety oversight of Department of Energy (DOE) defense nuclear facilities that design, build, maintain, and dismantle nuclear weapons and nuclear weapon components.  Identify and propose DOE facilities, activities, and programs for Board review that would be of major importance to the Board and the nation and have the potential for significantly affecting public health and safety.  Monitor progress toward meeting objectives for independent safety oversight of nuclear weapon programs; assess safety oversight program effectiveness, productivity, and contributions to overall Board mission and goals; identify barriers and determine solutions to ensure the Board's strategic objectives related to the safety of DOE’s defense nuclear facilities are achieved. Supervisory functions:  Plan, direct, and manage the efforts of engineers and scientists responsible for reviewing and evaluating the technical adequacy of complex processes and safety-related systems across DOE’s defense nuclear facilities complex.  Recommend promotions, assignments, awards, and training.  Advise and counsel employees on work-related issues, complaints, and the need for training.  This includes the responsibility for applying the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity in hiring practices, training, employee development, utilization of employee skills, and other applicable areas.  Technical review:  Review technical work products of subordinates, colleagues, consultants, contractors, and others.  Serve as primary and secondary reviewer of Board reports on highly technical issues regarding the safe operation of defense nuclear facilities that design, build, maintain, and dismantle nuclear weapons and nuclear weapon components.  Assess the technical adequacy of DOE’s implementation plans for the Board’s safety recommendations. Executive-level interactions:  Interact closely with the Chair, Board Members, and the General Counsel to resolve and recommend resolution of policy and programmatic issues of the highest level related to safe operation of defense nuclear facilities that design, build, maintain, and dismantle nuclear weapons and nuclear weapon components.  Interact with senior DOE officials and contractors, scientific groups and committees, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, other Federal agencies, and state and local governments to assist the Board in assessing such DOE activities and in developing Board safety recommendations to the Secretary of Energy.  Serve as key spokesperson for the Board regarding public health and safety topics related to the safe operation of defense nuclear facilities that design, build, maintain, and dismantle nuclear weapons and nuclear weapon components.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship required.
• Incumbents of this position will be required to complete and maintain a background investigation with Security Clearance (T5/Q Access).
• Must provide resume and supporting documents (See required documents).
• This position may require travel away from your normal duty station.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• Must be able to submit and pass designated and random drug testing as required.
• Public Financial Disclosure Report (SF-278) is required within 30 days of appointment.

Qualifications

As a basic requirement for entry into the SES, applicants must provide evidence of progressively responsible executive leadership that is indicative of senior executive level management capability. Typically, experience of this nature will have been gained at or above the GS-15 grade level in the Federal service or its equivalent in the private sector. Failure to address all Mandatory Technical and Executive Core Qualification factors will result in determining your application to be "not qualified."   EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQs): Applicants must submit a written narrative to address the 5 ECQs. Your narrative must address each ECQ separately and should contain at least two examples per ECQ describing your experiences and accomplishments/results. The narrative should be clear, concise, and emphasize your level of responsibilities, scope and complexity of programs managed, program accomplishments, policy initiatives undertaken and the results of your actions. Applicants should not enter "Refer to Resume" as a written narrative.  The narrative must not exceed 10 pages.  Current career SES members, former career SES members with reinstatement eligibility, and SES Candidate Development Program graduates who have been certified by OPM do NOT need to address the ECQs.1. Leading Change: This core qualification involves the ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment. 2. Leading People: This core qualification involves the ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. 3. Results Driven: This core qualification involves the ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks. 4. Business Acumen: This core qualification involves the ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. 5. Building Coalitions: This core qualification involves the 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. Additional information about the SES and Executive Core Qualifications can be found on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) SES Website. You are strongly encouraged to review OPM's Guide to SES Qualifications for specific examples and guidance on writing effective ECQ narrative statements. Applicants are encouraged to follow the Challenge, Context, Action and Result (C-C-A-R) model outlined in the guide.Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQs) Applicants are required to submit a narrative statement for each MTQ.  MTQs are designed to assess an applicant’s experience relevant to the specific position requirements. Each MTQ narrative statement must (1) not exceed two pages; (2) include specific examples of your experience, education, and/or accomplishments; and (3) address specific challenges, contexts, actions, and results. MTQ1 – Discuss your experience and skill in the management and supervision of a staff composed of entry level, journey level, and senior level scientists and engineers in a hybrid working environment.  MTQ2 – Discuss the scope of your technical knowledge and experience overseeing safety assessments or field reviews as they pertain to the operation of nuclear facilities or to activities relating to nuclear weapon stockpile stewardship.

Education

Basic Requirements:
A. Degree--Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor’s degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.
OR
B. Combination of education and experience--College-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: 

1. Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
2. Written test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
3. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.
4. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor’s degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.)

If you do not meet the education requirement, your application will be assigned a "not qualified" status.  

Contacts

• Address Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board 625 Indiana Ave NW Suite 700 Washington, District of Columbia 20004 United States
• Name: Debbie Biscieglia
• Phone: 202-669-9138
• Email: [email protected]