Project Manager

• Originates, reviews, modifies, coordinates, formulates, and assesses office positions on policies and emerging issues related to fuel cycle facilities and licensees. Leads major licensing reviews and identifies need for technical assistance to support review of all applications. Coordinates activities for conduct of important review needs, reviews findings, and formulates agency positions concerning them. Identifies need for development of new and revised acquisition policies and to reflect technical assistance need and studies for safety and environmental reviews, new and emerging threats to security of nuclear fuel cycle facilities, materials, and concerns of stakeholders.
• Identifies work scope, resources, products and schedules for assigned policy development and rulemaking activities to enhance safety and protection of the environment. Coordinates and provides advice related to preparation of policies and of rulemaking documents, including regulatory analyses, statements of consideration, environmental assessments, information collection requirements, reviews for consistency with other policies, consistency with research findings and technological developments, legal reviews, and input from other agencies. Manages the resolution and closure of petitions for rulemaking.
• Manages, coordinates, and performs safety and environmental reviews of applications for fuel cycle facilities and amendments. Determines requirements for additional information, studies, reviews and documentation. Recommends agency action for applications consistent with NRC Safety Evaluation Reports, Environmental Reports, and other documentation.
• Initiates and manages contract support for assigned tasks and project activities. Identifies qualifications needed, statements of work, schedules, and deliverable products. Provides guidance and direction to national laboratories and commercial firms performing work under contract, monitors performance, and reviews draft products.
• Represents the Office at internal NRC meetings to facilitate resolution of issues and formulates Office positions concerning them. Schedules, coordinates, chairs and participates in public meetings with representatives of the public, nuclear industry, NRC staff, States and local governments, and other Federal agencies to address technical or policy matters related to the overall program or to specific licensing actions.
• Represents the NRC at international forums related to fuel cycle facility issues

1. Knowledge of NRC requirements, policies, practices, and programs applicable to nuclear fuel cycle facilities. (Describe your experience and accomplishments regarding the depth and breadth of your knowledge of NRC requirements, policies, practices, and programs applicable to fuel cycle facilities. These examples should include experience in areas such as licensing, inspection, enforcement, and technical review of uranium conversion, fuel fabrication, enrichment, and greater-than-critical mass facilities. Include multiple examples of where you led or had a key role in applying your NRC knowledge in significant, complex situations. Describe what contacts, external organizations, stakeholders you have worked with on these assignments.)
2. Ability to prioritize, plan, schedule, manage, and complete the review of technical and policy issues affecting licensing and related activities of nuclear fuel cycle facilities. (Describe your experience managing significant, unique, controversial, or complex projects related to the licensing and policy issues of uranium conversion, fuel fabrication, enrichment, and greater-than-critical mass facilities. Discuss examples of where you led significant, complex licensing, rulemaking, or guidance development projects. For each example, discuss the challenge of the project, context, your specific role and the actions you took, and the results, including the outcome and the impact on the design, licensing, operation, and/or regulation of these types of facilities.)
3. Ability to communicate complex licensing, technical, or policy information clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing. (Describe specific experience, training, and accomplishments that demonstrate your ability to effectively communicate licensing, technical, and policy issues. Describe your ability to prepare written documents such as licensing actions, inspection reports, safety evaluation reports, technical information proposals, significant briefings, and public communications. Provide at least three specific examples for both written and oral communication with particular focus on coordinating integrated team reviews, risk-informed decision-making, leading change, and conducting meetings with diverse stakeholders and management. Describe the audience, the nature and complexity of the communication, and the outcome of such communication.)
4. Demonstrated ability to develop and implement successful approaches to problem solving and conflict resolution on licensing, technical, or policy issues. (Describe specific experience that demonstrates your ability to resolve differences to reach consensus on licensing, technical, or policy issues. Discuss examples of where you led or had a lead role in resolving differences to reach consensus in significant, complex situations. Describe your experience in establishing effective working relationships with executives as various levels, supervisors, subordinates, peers, professional associations, the public, and government and industry (e.g., licensees, applicants) officials. Describe challenges you encountered in working relationships and how you utilized your interpersonal skills to resolve them. For each example, discuss the challenge, context, the actions you took, and the results, including the outcome and the impact on the organization.)

A description of how you possess the specialized experience as well as how you meet the qualifications desired in an ideal candidate must be addressed in your resume. The NRC encourages applicants to provide job experience details in your resume. Applicants may also use the supplemental vacancy question to provide additional information pertaining to the specialized experience and ideal candidate criteria.

PLEASE BE CLEAR AND CONCISE. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE.

Qualification for 0801 series:

Basic Requirements:

1. 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

1. 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:
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.)

More detailed information about these alternatives are described in the U.S. Office of Personnel Management Qualification Standards Operating Manual which may be accessed at the following website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/general-engineering-series-0801.

GG-1301, (General Physical Science Series):

Basic requirements:

• 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.