Senior Mechanical Engineer

Overview

Mission Support and Test Services, LLC (MSTS) manages and operates the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) for the . National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).

Our MISSION is to help ensure the security of the United States and its allies by providing high-hazard experimentation and incident response capabilities through operations, engineering, education, field, and integration services and by acting as environmental stewards to the Site’s Cold War legacy.

Our VISION is to be the user site of choice for large-scale, high-hazard, national security experimentation, with premier facilities and capabilities below ground, on the ground, and in the air.

See for our unique Our 2,750+ professional, craft, and support employees are called upon to innovate, collaborate, and deliver on some of the more difficult nuclear security challenges facing the world today.

In this environment, the best ideas need to be voiced and every opinion matters. As such, MSTS places great value on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and is committed to a diverse and equitable workforce, with an inclusive culture that values and celebrates the diversity of our people, talents, ideas, and perspectives.

• MSTS offers our full-time employees highly competitive salaries and benefits packages including medical, dental, and vision;
• both a pension and a 401k; paid time off and 96 hours of paid holidays; relocation (if located more than 75 miles from work location);

tuition assistance and reimbursement; and more.

MSTS is a limited liability company consisting of Honeywell International Inc. (Honeywell), Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.

Jacobs), and HII Nuclear Inc.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Devises imaginative, thorough, and practical solutions requiring evaluation of standards and processes. Solutions may be unique.
• Coordinates execution of assigned projects.
• Develops processes, procedures, work instructions for operations in the shops and laboratory facilities at STL in support of the Dynamic Experiments portfolio.
• Prepares procurement requirements and work statements for subcontracts, and evaluates bids.
• Contributes to strategies, reports and technical proposals.
• Guides implementation and utilization of technology for both experimental and operational needs of the explosives experiments, gas-gun and powder-gun facilities.
• Serves as an internal subject matter expert in mechanical design, fabrication and performance and is recognized by their colleagues as such.
• Builds teaming relationships with technical and other company organizations and National laboratory collaborators.
• Develops equipment or work specifications, evaluates bids and makes recommendation for awards of purchase contracts supporting complex facility operations.
• Receives general direction and technical guidance on complex issues and projects of broad scope.
• Performs design and technical activities that require interpretation and correlation of codes and standards, complex computer software, and unique processes and procedures tailored for the work being executed.
• Contributes to development of engineering solutions employing new principles, concepts, and / or techniques. Demonstrates advanced communication skills necessary to effectively collaborate in a team environment.

Recognized Subject Matter Expert by internal colleagues. May be lead author on paper / poster.

• Serves as lead on teams requiring coordination with other teams. Coordinates work with other project team members.
• Defines training program for less experienced staff in engineering skills. Advisor on work of less experienced staff.
• Provides expertise on operational goals of the supported facilities at STL.
• Executes work in a disciplined manner to demonstrate compliance with laws, codes, orders, and MSTS policies and procedures.
• In addition to fulfilling basic ESH&Q obligations : Assumes increased responsibility for safety as job responsibilities expand.

Work may affect public health and safety.May participate on a safety team

Perform other duties assigned by Management.

Qualifications

• Minimum Education and Experience :
• Bachelor’s degree in a mechanical engineering program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) required;
• Or, Calculus-based STEM bachelor’s degree in engineering;Or, for Architects, Certification from the National Council or Architectural Registration Board (NCARB);

Or Professional Engineer license

Plus at least 5 years’ relevant experience. Skill building experience must demonstrate either deeper technical specialization or additional cross-disciplinary knowledge.

Graduate research experience may be recognized.

• Knowledge of how codes and standards of other disciplines affect their discipline.
• Pre-placement physical examination, which includes a drug screen, is required. MSTS maintains a substance abuse policy that includes random drug testing.
• Must possess a valid driver’s license.
30+ days ago