This position is located in the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research (RES), Division of Engineering (DE) Reactor Engineer Branch (REB). The supervisor is Raj Iyengar. This  position is Bargaining Unit with the National Treasury Employees Union, Chapter 208. This position IS subject to Confidential Financial Disclosure reporting requirements. This position IS subject to security ownership restriction reporting requirements

Duties

The Senior Project Manager (Codes & Standards), manages and administers the agency’s Code and Standards program involving reactor and nuclear safety, providing technical authority responsibility for the codes and standards, guidance development, policy development, and enhanced safety in NRC programs and processes to enhance regulatory efficiency and effectiveness.  Assignments involve leading and managing projects of agency-wide scope. The incumbent serves as a recognized authority on Code and Standards program involving reactor safety projects by top level management officials within and outside the agency.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship Required
• This is a Drug Testing position.
• Must be able to meet/maintain security & suitability requirements.

Qualifications

In order to qualify for this position, you must have at least one year of specialized experience at the next lower grade level (GG-14) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.  The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the following: 1. Demonstrated knowledge of NRC’s regulations, codes and standards, guidance development, policy development, and enhanced safety in NRC programs and processes. 2. Ability to lead risk-informed decision-making and/or innovation and transformation related to codes and standards, regulatory framework, guides and criteria, and regulatory oversight programs or policy issues related to commercial light-water nuclear power reactors, advanced reactors, non-power reactors, or other similar regulated entities. 3. Ability to prioritize, plan, manage, and administer complex licensing and research programs involving reactor and nuclear safety, including licensing, codes and standards, guidance development, policy development for enhanced safety in NRC programs and processes for regulated entities. 4. Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing with a broad range of audiences on technical and policy issues, challenges, and resolutions. 5. Demonstrated ability in interpersonal relations and persuasion for the purpose of obtaining acceptance on technically desirable solutions and/or procedures through resolution of differing technical views to reach consensus and to establish effective working relationships with various audiences. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE is defined as experience that demonstrates the knowledge of NRC’s regulations, codes and standards, guidance development, policy development, and enhanced safety in NRC programs and processes in order to efficiently manage and administer the agency’s Code and Standards program involving reactor and nuclear safety.

Education

General Engineering Series, 801:

• Degree: professional engineering. To be acceptable, the curriculum must: (1) be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; 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

• 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 professional 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.

General Physical Science Series, 1301:

• Degree: physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics.

OR

• Combination of education and experience -- education equivalent to one of the majors shown in A above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

Contacts

• Address NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Human Resources Washington, District of Columbia 20555 United States
• Name: Kreslyon Valrie
• Phone: (301) 287-0714
• Email: [email protected]