Director, Safeguards and Security

Director, Safeguards and Security

Job Locations

US-TN-Oak Ridge

ID

2025-1946

Category

Security

Overview

APPOINTMENT TYPE : Full-Time Regular

LOCATION : Oak Ridge, TN

SALARY RANGE : $153,524.80 - $225,846.40

PURPOSE :

Serves as department director and Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) / Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Facility Security Officer. Responsible for directing all ORAU and ORISE Safeguards and Security (S&S) functional areas including S&S program management, personnel security, information security, physical security, technical security, operations security, Watchforce / protective force operations, foreign visits and assignments, security awareness, and nuclear materials control and accountability. Serves as Facility Security Officer for Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) / Department of Defense (DoD) corporate security programs and oversees the Insider Threat Program, serving as the Insider Threat Program Senior Official. Also serves as the ORAU / ORISE Contractor Classification Officer, managing the classification and Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information (UCNI) programs.

Responsibilities

Oversees and directs all safeguards and security operations and activities for ORAU / ORISE.

• Serves as ORAU and ORISE Facility Security Officer, and is the focal point for coordination with Department of Energy (DOE), DCSA, and external organizations relating to safeguards and security activities.
• Ensures all S&S programs and projects are aligned and adequate to protect ORAU and ORISE interests (personnel, high value property, sensitive information, classified matter up to Secret / / Restricted Data (S / / RD), and special nuclear material).
• Manages all operations and directives to ensure compliance with departmental and national requirements.
• Performs Management / Supervisory tasks for the S&S Department :

Plans, organizes, directs, and schedules the work of employees, equipment, and material within budgetary and quality standards.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice, Security, Safety, Emergency Management, or other relevant field and 12+ years of job-related experience. Master's degree in Engineering, Criminal Justice or other related discipline is preferred. An equivalent combination of education and experience requiring similar knowledge, skills, abilities, and performing duties as described may be substituted for the minimum requirements (master's degree and 10 years of experience, associate's degree and 16 years of experience, high school diploma and 20 years of experience).

TOTAL REWARDS

ORAU has a strategic approach to providing total rewards to employees through a fair, equitable, and competitive total compensation package. The goal of our total rewards system is to integrate compensation, benefits, work-life balance, performance, recognition, development, and career opportunities to attract, engage, and retain the talent required to achieve ORAU's business objectives. The benefit component of our total rewards program supports business goals by offering the following benefits based on employee eligibility :

The ORAU total reward package also promotes work-life balance. Mindful of the need for employees to care for themselves and their families, ORAU offers the following additional work-life benefits based on employee eligibility :

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