Summary This position is located in the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards (NMSS), Division of Fuel Management (DFM), Inspection and Oversight Branch (IOB). The supervisor is Hector Rodriguez-Luccioni. This position is Bargaining Unit with the National Treasury Employees Union, Chapter 208. This position IS subject to Confidential Financial Disclosure reporting requirements. This position IS subject to security ownership restriction reporting requirements. Responsibilities The successful candidate will perform the full range of duties. The successful candidate will serve as a safety inspector in the Division of Fuel Management (DFM) with responsibility for 1) the inspection of designers, fabricators and users of nuclear material transportation packaging and/or spent fuel dry cask storage systems and 2) development of Commission QA policy for designers, fabricators and users of nuclear material transportation packaging and/or spent fuel dry cask storage systems. Such duties include but are not limited to: 1. Plans and leads multi-disciplined safety inspections of licensees, certificate holders, vendors and/or suppliers of nuclear material transportation packaging and/or spent fuel dry cask storage systems, focusing on implementation of regulatory requirements, with particular emphasis on quality assurance. 2. Develops and updates instructions and procedures for inspection of NRC-approved QA Programs. 3. Responsible for representing the NRC on National committees developing standards, codes, guides, and criteria related to safety and QA requirements. 4. Reviews submittals relative to regulatory requirements and guidance and prepares safety evaluation inputs and/or technical reports to support licensing, license amendments, certifications, and exemptions from the regulations. 5. Prepares and presents technical information or innovative approaches at Commission meetings, ACRS meetings, ASLB meetings, and to other high-profile organizations or audiences with top management executives. Requirements Conditions of Employment U.S. Citizenship Required This is a Drug Testing position. Background investigation leading to a clearance is required for new hires. You must meet the qualifications for this position by no later than 30 calendar days after the closing date of this announcement and before placement in the position. Qualifications In order to qualify for this position, you must have at least one year of specialized experience at the next lower grade level in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. 1. Knowledge of an engineering or scientific discipline, or radiation protection or QA principles, and demonstrated ability to conduct and lead multi-disciplinary inspections of NRC licensees, certificate holders, vendors, and suppliers. 2. Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing. 3. Demonstrated ability to establish effective working relationships with peers, co-workers, and various levels of management both inside and outside the agency. 4. Demonstrated ability to manage all aspects of a complex project: development, coordination, review, scheduling, etc. Specialized Experience is defined as knowledge of overall engineering or scientific principles related to the safety inspection activities in the area of procurement, design, fabrication and use of nuclear material transportation packaging and/or spent fuel dry cask storage systems. Additionally, knowledge of QA programs as it applies to designers, fabricators and users of transportation packaging and spent fuel storage systems. A description of how you possess the specialized experience as well as how you meet the qualifications desired in an ideal candidate should be addressed in your resume. Education For General Engineering Series 0801: 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 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: 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. 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. 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. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, 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.) For General Physical Science Series 1301: 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 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. Additional Information The duty location of this position is Rockville, MD. In general, employees are expected to be in the office at a minimum of 4 days per pay period. Telework schedules, including full-time telework, are approved, on a case-by-case basis. If selected, telework will be determined in accordance with Agency policy and the Collective Bargaining Agreement, if applicable.