The Plant Engineering organization provides engineering oversight, program support, and qualified staff to support the Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) mission. Near term support is provided by the Waste Treatment Completion Company (WTCC). The mission includes safely storing, treating, and immobilizing the highly hazardous radiological wastes created during prior periods of nuclear processing at the Hanford Reservation. The Plant Engineering organization and programs provide the framework for executing engineering work. Plant Engineering personnel are responsible for the technical adequacy of Plant Engineering products and decisions.

Specialists provide support to the Plant Engineering organization through assignment to program element activities, implementation of procedural responsibilities, and utilization of accumulated experience, and special skills. Assignments for this job position are wide and varied; involving topics such as compliance with standards, regulations, permits/policies, configuration management, performance measures, staffing, subcontracts, training, as well as other aspects of Plant Engineering activities.

This specialist position is specific to subcontracts. In some cases subcontracted work is developing entirely new programs being used at WTCC which requires more extensive direction and coordination to comply with WTCC concept of operations requirements. These types of work specifically entail generation of work scopes to be awarded and performed by Subcontractors and ensure planning and execution aligns with both Engineering and Maintenance organizational requirements. Under direction of the Plant Engineering Supervisor or Manager, the Plant Engineering subcontract technical representative (STR) coordinates the activities of Plant Engineers assigned. The STR ensures that Plant Engineering organizational priorities are implemented and pursued, and ensures that interactions with other Plant Engineering staff, Operations, Maintenance, WTP Project groups, subcontractors, and equipment vendors are adequate to perform assigned job functions.

This position shall be performed under the day-to-day direction, control, and supervision of WTCC

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES/TASKS

• Provide oversight to all subcontract activities that demonstrate compliance with requirement of the WDOH, EPA and Ecology.

• Work with internal and external customers to achieve objectives

• Routinely re-evaluate work priorities of ongoing work to align with project needs and achieve efficiencies to minimized delay in work

• Integrate daily engineering activities with other Plant Engineering disciplines, maintenance, and operations

• Integrate organizational values and vision related to quality and safety

• Capitalize on opportunities for positive and productive relationships with peers both within and external to Plant Engineering

• Train, mentor, and coaching team members for new skill development

• Review for accuracy written technical reports on assigned activities

• Review for accuracy written management procedures

• Ensure the health and safety of self and staff by implementing the principles of ISMS

• Ensure that personal conduct of work is consistent with nuclear safety and quality culture expectations

• Review and promote financial health and forecasting of subcontract work highlighting when financial change control (Trends) needs to be taken.

• Complete required training and maintain qualifications associated with assignments

• Support the Waste Treatment Plant Nuclear Safety Quality Culture by emphasizing the values of safety and quality in the performance of work.

• Undertake tasks as assigned (competence permitting)

This job description is not intended to include every duty, task, or instruction for which an employee is responsible. Other tasks may be assigned, based on business needs and the department supervisor’s request.

REQUIREMENTS/SPECIFICATIONS

Education:

• Associate (or higher) Degree related to science, technology, engineering, mathematics, computer/software science, or environment management or,

• Equivalent competency through related education or specific training and experience in an area of expertise that support Plant Engineering.

Experience:

• Fifteen (15) years – Background consistent with education requirements

• Candidate must have excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Candidate must be proficient in Microsoft application suite (e.g., Word, Excel, Access, Visio, PowerPoint, etc.)

Preferred Experience:

• Experience in processing facilities, DOE facilities, or DOD facilities

• Experience with national consensus codes and standards

• Experience developing technical and quality requirements and/or experience as a STR

• Experience with Project Engineering experience due the nature of increased coordination between Engineering, Operations and Commissioning staff to perform work and testing under the concept of operations of an operating plant

• Experience and familiarity with permit affecting work is also required as numerous subcontracts relate to testing for air permits, Dangerous Waste Permit (DWP) and general emissions. This work conducts testing to demonstrate compliance with requirement of the Washington Department of Health (WDOH), US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology)

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

NA

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

(EFNM) Exposed Field Non-Manual- Performs desk work, including writing, computer workstation processes, and telephone operation. Arranges for and/or performs presentations, oral reports, planning meetings, and other formal and informal contacts, requiring long periods of sitting. Oversees field activities through inspections, testing and equipment operations, which requires walking, standing, bending, and turning along with wearing of personal protective equipment. Occasional loading, transport, and unloading of tools and/or supplies specific to an activity.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

HIRING SALARY RANGE: $107,462.78 - $169,763.78 (Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant internal equity, and alignment with market data.)

This position includes a competitive benefits package. For more detailed information on our Benefits and what it is like to work for Amentum: please visit our careers site: www.amentumcareers.com

This position is located at the Construction Site (22 miles north of Richland) and works a 4 x 10 schedule, M-Th, 6:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Must be able to work in the United States without Sponsorship

Amentum is a global company with a heritage dating back more than 100 years and delivering solutions in nuclear energy, infrastructure, operations and maintenance, and national security. Our predecessors helped build Hoover Dam, protected fighting forces in World War II, and supported the Manhattan Project. Today, our teams clean up legacy nuclear waste around the world, manage the United Kingdom’s defense portfolio, design programs and tests for Navy submarine electronic systems, and provide integrated supply chain services needed in developing countries during the pandemic.

Amentum has joined with Bechtel to create an LLC, known as the Waste Treatment Completion Company (WTCC) Join us as we make history at the Hanford Vit Plant, known as the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant. We are designing and building a one-of-a-kind facility that will turn radioactive and chemical waste left over from World War II and Cold War plutonium production into a form safe for disposal. Your efforts will help protect the nearby Columbia River and the communities, salmon, and wildlife along its shorelines throughout the Northwest.

Sitting at the confluence of the Columbia, Snake and Yakima rivers near two mountain ranges, our community provides access to year-round outdoor recreation, 300 days of sun a year, more than 200 wineries within a 50-mile radius, and the amenities of large cities just a three-hour drive (or short flight) to Seattle and Portland.

Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran’s status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.

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