**Job Description**
Mission Support and Test Services, LLC (MSTS) manages and operates the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) for the U.S. 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 NNSS.gov for our unique capabilities.) 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.
+ 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.
**Responsiblities**
The Remote Sensing Laboratory - located on Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada - is searching for an enthusiastic and energetic individual looking to join our dynamic emergency response organization that is responsible for supporting several national-level radiological and nuclear emergency response assets. The Nuclear Search Program (NSP) is composed of scientists, engineers, and technical support personnel equipped with specialized training and advanced instrumentation. NSP personnel stand ready to search for nuclear threat devices based on a variety of signatures and intelligence in concert with federal mission partners. For more information on the work done at the Remote Sensing Laboratory in support of a very important mission please check out this video https://www.ans.org/webinars/view-rsl2021/#\_blank .
**Key Responsibilities**
+ Collect and analyze radiological data from a variety of platforms, and advise public safety officials on the consequences of a radiological incident.
+ Utilize specialized tools and applications to calculate potential impacts to the public, workers, and the environment to support radiological emergencies.
+ Attain and maintain qualification as an emergency responder.
+ Serve rotating, on-call duty for approximately a third of the year, typically in one-week increments.
+ Ability to deploy world-wide for exercises and responses, with as little as two-hour notice when on-call.
+ Maintain training and ensure job-specific qualifications remain current; as well as attend onsite and off-site training as necessary to maintain competency.
+ Assist in the development of company and emergency response guidelines, manuals, procedures, etc.
+ Develop and implement corrective actions and lessons learned.
+ Develop training materials and deliver trainings to emergency responders across the DOE community.
+ Assist with the preparation of technical reports and recommendations.
+ Organize, evaluate, and interpret data by comparison against standards and guidelines.
+ Plan and conduct work requiring judgment in the evaluation, selection, application, adaptation, and modification of standard techniques, guidelines, procedures, and criteria.
+ Maintain the ability to present analysis results to a technical or non-technical audience.
+ Conduct testing and evaluation of radiation detection equipment and acquisition/analysis software.
+ Provide expertise, feedback, and input into the development of improved radiation detection systems and analysis algorithms.
+ Provide scientific guidance on projects involving an interdisciplinary team of engineers, software developers, scientists, and technicians.
+ Operate radiation detection equipment in field operations.
+ Maintain subject matter expertise and proficiency on detection equipment to instruct during courses, or offer troubleshooting during operations or events.
+ Develop and design scientific and technical content for training exercises.
+ Perform other duties as assigned by Supervisor/Manager.
**Qualifications**
+ Bachelor's degree in Health Physics, Nuclear Engineering or a similar calculus-based Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) field, plus at least 9 years relevant experience. Ph.D is preferred. _Skill building experience must demonstrate either deeper technical specialization or additional cross-discip_ linary knowledge. Graduate research experience may be recognized.
+ Experience with one or more of the following is highly desired: gamma-ray spectroscopy, operational health physics, and customer service and/or tr