Clarification from the agency

Applications will be accepted from all United States citizens. You do not need to be a current or former federal employee to apply. Veteran's preference does not apply to the Senior Executive Service.

As the "Associate Administrator, Environment, Safety and Health" you will:

Provide leadership and direction for the development and execution of NNSA's Environment, Safety and Health policies and programs for the Nuclear Security Enterprise.

Assure the safe storage, packaging, and transportation of radioactive and hazardous materials by managing the programs to store materials and develop and procure packages and containers necessary to support DOE/NNSA missions and executes the regulatory function to certify radioactive and hazardous materials packages for use in over the road transportation.

Provide programmatic leadership and technical support to NNSA sites to ensure long-term stewardship activities are performed to protect human health and the environment and maintain compliance with State and Federal laws and regulations.

Provides strategic and tactical planning, implementation, and development of NNSA sustainability and energy activities.

Develop and manage NNSA's system-level safety oversight process to ensure the NNSA federal and M&O organizations have the people, systems, and processes necessary to ensure the safety of the public, the workers, and the environment, and to ensure that all NNSA elements properly implement Integrated Safety Management.

Promote and improve the safety culture at NNSA to ensure that the organization's values and behaviors modeled by its leaders and internalized by its members, serve to make safe performance of work the overriding priority to protect the workers, public, and the environment.

Execute the NNSA Central Technical Authority functions, when assigned by the Administrator, to ensure that key safety decisions are thoroughly and technically evaluated without potentially undue programmatic influences.

Ensure the functions of the NNSA Cognizant Secretarial Officer for Safety are executed appropriately.

Ensure protection of human health and the environment at NNSA sites through long-term stewardship and environmental compliance, management of radioactive, hazardous, and sanitary wastes generated during NNSA programmatic operations, and direction of NNSA environmental legacy cleanup.

Manage environment, safety and health policy, requirements, guidance and expectations for NNSA including implementation of the Integrated Safety Management System, Documented Safety Analyses and Technical Safety Requirements, and Nuclear Explosive Safety directives.

Manage responses to operational nuclear safety issues identified by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, Office of Health, Safety, and Security, or other organizations.

Act as a liaison on all aspects of interagency and intra-agency directives and Rulemaking processes related to nuclear safety and ES&H and serves as the primary NNSA point of contact with the DOE Office of Health, Safety and Security (HSS) for nuclear safety and ES&H matters.

Conditions of employment

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT FOR THIS VACANCY: This is a career position in the SES. Unless the selectee is already a member of the SES with career status or has successfully completed an SES Candidate Development Program certified by OPM, executive qualifications must be approved by OPM before the appointment can be effected. If you are selected, you will be responsible for working with a DOE Executive Consultant to finalize your ECQ narrative for OPM submission.

HOMELAND SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE (HSPD-12): A selectee's appointment is contingent upon compliance with Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD-12) governing personal identity. May be required to pass a pre-employment drug test, random testing after appointment.

Qualifications

Candidates must fully address all Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) and Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQs) in order to receive consideration. Your responses must demonstrate possession of these qualifications; typically acquired through education, experience, or training, and reflect progressive development and achievement in managing a comprehensive program and/or organization. Please provide examples that are clear, concise, and emphasize your level of responsibility, the scope and complexity of programs managed, program accomplishments, policy initiatives undertaken, and level of contacts. Do not enter "Refer to Resume" to explain your answer. Applications directing the reviewer to search within the application or to see resume are considered incomplete and will not receive further consideration. All qualified candidates will be evaluated on the relevance of their experience, education, training, self-development, honors, awards, and outside activities.

Applicants currently serving under a career Senior Executive Service (SES) appointment; eligible for reinstatement into the SES; or have successfully completed an SES Candidate Development Program (CDP) approved by OPM are not required to address the ECQs; but MUST address all MTQs. Failure by a non-Senior Executive Service member to upload a narrative statement addressing each of the ECQs and MTQs will result in loss of consideration.

Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs): A supplemental narrative must be uploaded and attached to your application addressing each ECQ listed below. The ECQs were designed to assess executive experience and potential, not technical expertise. They measure whether an individual has the broad executive skills needed to succeed in a variety of SES positions. All applicants must submit a written narrative to address the ECQs. Your narrative must address each ECQ separately and should contain one or two examples per ECQ describing your experiences and accomplishments/results. The narrative should be clear, concise, and emphasize your level of responsibility, scope and complexity of programs managed, program accomplishments, policy initiatives undertaken and the results of your actions. Applicants should not enter "Refer to Resume" to describe your experiences. Applications directing the reviewer to search within the application or to see the resume are considered incomplete and may not receive further consideration. The narrative must not exceed 10 pages.
There are five ECQs:

ECQ 1: LEADING CHANGE: Ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals and establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment.

ECQ 2: LEADING PEOPLE: Ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals and provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts.

ECQ 3: RESULTS DRIVEN: Ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations, and make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks.

ECQ 4: BUSINESS ACUMEN: Ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically.

ECQ 5: BUILDING COALITIONS: Ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is required by law to review the executive core qualifications of each new career appointee to the Senior Executive Service (SES) prior to appointment.

Failure to submit a narrative statement addressing each of the ECQs may cause your application to be deemed incomplete and not be considered.

For additional information on ECQs, please review the detailed information provided by OPM at the following link: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/senior-executive-service/executive-core-qualifications/.

A sample 5-page executive level resume and ECQ narratives can be viewed at this link http://www.opm.gov/ses/references/GuidetoSESQuals_2012.pdf

Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQs): A supplemental narrative must be uploaded and attached to your application addressing each MTQ listed below. No more than one (1) page per MTQ is allowed; additional informational information will not be considered. MTQs must provide specific examples that address relevant experience and accomplishments. Applicants must reflect superior technical qualifications demonstrated through leadership and management in the following MTQs:

• MTQ 1: Describe your experience in providing executive leadership and decision-making regarding nuclear safety, and/or infrastructure and/or operations (including environmental protection, resilience, and sustainability), relative to a highly complex, geographically dispersed technical organization.
• MTQ 2: Describe your experience developing/evaluating/executing strategies, programs, initiatives, policies, and directives required to achieve mission goals/objectives for nuclear safety, health, and/or operations. Provide examples of strategies, programs, initiatives, policies, and directives involved, actions taken, and the resulting outcomes.
• MTQ 3: Describe your experience promoting and improving an organization's safety culture to ensure that the values and behaviors serve to make safe performance at work the overriding priority to protect the workers, the public and the environment.
• MTQ 4: Describe your experience directing the day-to-day operations of a complex organization, managing highly technical personnel to achieve high-level goals and objectives.

Failure to submit a narrative statement addressing each of the MTQs may cause your application to be deemed incomplete and not be considered.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

You will be rated and ranked using only the information submitted for consideration.

Applicants who do not demonstrate sufficient possession of the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) AND demonstrated specialized experience, training, and/or education in support of the Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQs) by uploading the narratives, will be determined ineligible for further consideration. The narrative must demonstrate the necessary level of skills, specialized knowledge, and technical competence that would indicate success at this level and must include clear and concise examples that emphasize the applicant's level of responsibilities, scope, and complexity. Based on the Panel's evaluation, applicants who were determined best qualified will be referred to the hiring manager for further consideration. Once a candidate has been identified for selection, the Executive Resources Board will make final approval, and in competitive cases, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Qualifications Review Board (QRB), will certify qualifications. This process can take up to 90 working days.

Please refer to the reference guide indicated in the Qualifications section to ensure the proper procedures for submission are followed. For detailed guidance on ECQs, applicants are strongly encouraged to review the Office of Personnel Management's Guide to Executive Qualifications at SES RECRUITMENT/ECQ.