Field Operations Specialist

Niskayuna, New York
Must be a US Citizen able to obtain Security Clearance (Department of Energy).

• Provide on-site support in evaluating the operating contractor’s construction and operational activities including the contractor’s environmental, nuclear safety, operations, and safety and health contract compliance.
• Conduct daily on-site performance-based evaluations of facilities and operations against contract-required laws and regulations.
• Monitor, observe, and assess operating conditions.
• Support the DOE Team with operational activities, and problem identification, analysis resolution and tracking, and problem-solving.
• Assess facilities that are radioactively or chemically contaminated to determine the challenges associated with D&D.
• Identify activities required to prepare a facility for D&D, perform D&D, and stabilize (i.e., keep in a safe configuration) while awaiting D&D. Organize, facilitate, and attend meetings, conferences, and workshops; prepare and distribute summaries/results of meetings.
• Assist with weekly/monthly Integrated Project Team calls between the FPD, and Naval Reactors site and field office personnel.
• Interact with sub-contractor site-lead to address issues and assess project status.
• Prepare technical justification for decisions on change orders and task modifications.
• Develop work performance statements and qualifications for procurement and acquisition documents.
• Coordinate pre-proposal walkdowns with potential bidders.
• Review/edit documents, make necessary corrections, provide or consolidate comments on documents, and track the resolution of comments.
• Deliver quality and timely project services to clients including budgeting; implement and track cost-effectiveness measures; develop schedules and adjust resources to numerous tasks; periodic reporting; performance measurement; productivity.
• Prepare draft correspondence, reports, and briefings.

• BA/BS in a related field, and 10 or more years in the environmental/regulatory area. 
• Prior DOE nuclear facility management experience.
• Demonstrated ability to write and edit documents, plans, procedures, and proposals. Able to read and interpret structural, utility, and electrical as-built drawings.
• Ability to evaluate and interpret policy documentation and regulations.
• Knowledge of work practices in radiologically contaminated areas is beneficial.
• Knowledge of D&D work activities (i.e., utility isolations, characterization, asbestos and regulated waste abatement, piping and equipment removal/size reduction, heavy component rigging and removal, decontamination/application of fixatives, structure demolition, slab removal, waste packaging and shipping).
• Knowledge of D&D project sequencing, and execution time required.
• Knowledge of the labor skills necessary to accomplish D&D activities.
• The ability to meet the requirements for a DOE security clearance.

• DOE environmental project experience.
• Knowledge of DOE, Federal, and State environmental regulation.
• Facility Representation certification.
• Experience with RCRA or CERCLA closure processes.
• Experience with contaminated waste disposal.