Are you passionate about your work and dream of utilizing state-of-the-art facilities to explore solutions? Join a dynamic team that helps tackle some of the most challenging issues facing our nation's security!
You could be the Pulsed Power Mission Assurance R&D Laboratory Support Technologist we are looking for to join the Z High Hazard Operations team!
On any given day, you may be called upon to:
• Assist in the planning and coordination of daily pre-and post-experiment activities.
• Participate in the development and implementation of Engineered Safety practices and Work Planning & Controls aligning with ES&H requirements for required work activities.
• Set up, operate, maintain, and modify commercial and custom-built scientific systems (e.g. Magnetically Insulated Transmission Lines (MITL) and Center Stack).
• Set up and quality check complex laboratory experiments involving various types of diagnostics.
• Perform critical lifts with bridge cranes and forklifts, confined space entries, and assist with general laboratory operations (e.g. ordering and stocking consumables, materials movement, housekeeping).
• This work environment requires extended physical activity while wearing personal protection equipment (PPE), including full Tyvek and respirator (2-6 hours per day); entering and working in confined spaces and non-air-conditioned environments; climbing up and down ladders numerous times a day while wearing PPE; climbing multiple flights of stairs numerous times a day; and bending, twisting, climbing, crawling, crouching, squatting, pushing, and pulling.
• Assist, cross-train, and shadow any 1600 personnel as need to support facility operations.
• Individually or with the team, recommend and initiate new concepts and ideas to improve workflow and practices.
Physicals demands include bending, twisting, climbing, crawling or crouching/squatting.
High School diploma or equivalent w/3 years experience with hand, power and/or machine tools.
Able to acquire and maintain a DOE Q security clearance.
Flexibility to work a variable shift schedule in the day or night.
• Experience working in environments that are high consequence and/or require wearing PPE
• Ability to operate various types of heavy equipment
• Experience in implementing quality principles and standards, utilizing Work Process & Controls
• Highly self-motivated, adaptable to change, effective collaborator in high-stress situations
• A documented history of developing new skills and increasing expertise
