Risk & Reliability Analyst (Public)

Summary This position is located in Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards (NMSS), Division of Fuel Management (DFM), Nuclear Analysis and Risk Assessment Branch (NARAB). The supervisor is Dante Johnson. 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 Responsibilities The successful candidate will perform the full range of Reliability and Risk Analyst duties. You will serve as a Reliability and Risk Analyst in the Division of Fuel Management (DFM) with responsibility for the review of risk assessments of fuel cycle facilities, spent fuel storage and transportation package designs, and independent spent fuel storage facilities. The following types of tasks are performed: Providing technical advice on risk assessments of nuclear facilities that process special nuclear material, and/or on risk assessments for package certifications of transportation and storage of radioactive materials. Evaluating the design and functional capability of non-power reactor facilities, systems and/or devices to withstand accident conditions, with a focus on estimating the frequencies of accidents and their consequences. Performing analyses of the types of events which can initiate accidents in non-power reactor facilities, systems and/or devices, and the frequency of such events. Carrying out complex technical reviews of qualitative, simplified-quantitative, and quantitative risk analyses of issues in non-power reactor facilities, systems and/or devices, and initiating appropriate actions to obtain solutions to problems. Evaluating the reliability of proposed engineering and administrative controls for risk mitigation. Such duties include but are not limited to: Conducting analyses of the public health and economic consequences, and the overall public risk, of such accidents. Leading discussions of methods, data, and results in the areas described above to other technical staff that need this information in the conduct of their work. Drafting technical reports and making presentations to the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, the Commission, upper management, and outside groups on technical issues, concerns, or positions developed on regulatory issues related to analyses performed. Requirements Conditions of Employment U.S. Citizenship Required This is a Drug Testing position. Background investigation leading to a clearance is required for new hires. You must meet the qualifications for this position by no later than 30 calendar days after the closing date of this announcement and before placement in the position. 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-13) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the following: Demonstrated knowledge of the design, operation, and configuration of major systems in complex facilities with processes that could lead to hazardous material releases (radiological and/or chemical), fires, explosions, or other deviations of concern. Demonstrated knowledge and experience applying the principles, theories, and practices in the field of risk and reliability analyst, particularly as applied to qualitative, simplified-quantitative, and/or quantitative risk analyses of issues in facilities or systems that could lead to hazardous material releases (radiological and/or toxic chemical), fires, or explosions. Demonstrated ability to manage complex regulatory or technical issues and to develop sound recommendations and solutions. Demonstrated experience in leading, managing, or participating in complex, highly technical projects or tasks with others leading to timely issue resolution. Demonstrated ability to communicate and present technical information clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE is defined as experience that demonstrates professional engineering and/or scientific expertise associated with hazard evaluations and risk assessments of complex facilities or systems with processes that could lead to hazardous material releases (radiological and/or chemical), fires, explosions, or other deviations of concern. A description of how you possess the specialized experience as well as how you meet the qualifications desired in an ideal candidate should be addressed in your resume. Education 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)1, 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)2 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.) Additional Information The duty location of this position is Rockville, MD. In general, employees are expected to be in the office at a minimum of 4 days per pay period. Telework schedules, including full-time telework, are approved, on a case-by-case basis. If selected, telework will be determined in accordance with Agency policy and the Collective Bargaining Agreement, if applicable.