Nuclear Material Control & Accountability (MC&A) S

Nuclear Material Control & Accountability (MC&A) S at Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States Job Description Idaho National Laboratory needs Nuclear Material Control and Accountability Specialists to sustain leadership in nuclear energy by ensuring precision and integrity of nuclear material control and accountability, with work directly supporting DOE directives while enhancing security and efficiency of operations. You'll represent the Safeguards department in implementing DOE Orders and directives related to nuclear material control and accountability, interpret and apply program requirements, manage execution of safeguards requirements for shipments and receipts of nuclear material, and coordinate, schedule, and direct nuclear material physical inventories. Your responsibilities include observing nuclear material transfers within Material Balance Areas, reconciling and reporting accounting activities to the national accounting database, providing oversight for shipments and receipts, analyzing and assessing accuracy of laboratory nuclear material inventory with the National Nuclear Material Management and Safeguards System, contributing to department documentation including procedure reviews, providing oversight to MBA Custodians on proper access controls, and material surveillance requirements.

Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities:

Represent the Safeguards department in implementing DOE Orders and directives related to Nuclear Material Control and Accountability (NMC&A). Interpret and apply program requirements. Manage the execution of Safeguards requirements applicable to the shipments and receipts of nuclear material at INL facilities. Coordinate, schedule, and direct nuclear material physical inventories. Observe nuclear material transfers and associated activities within Material Balance Areas (MBAs). Reconcile and report accounting activities to the national accounting database. Analyze and assess the accuracy of the INL nuclear material inventory with the National Nuclear Material Management and Safeguards System (NMMSS), a national inventory of nuclear materials. Contribute to the department documentation program, including procedure reviews and updates. Provide Facility Operations management with an annual assessment of the performance of their MBA Custodians. Provide oversight and complex solutions for unique problems within MBAs in areas such as waste determinations, shipments, receipts, material adjustments, and reconciliations of nuclear material inventories. Provide recommendations to and advise Operations management and Safeguards management on issues that may affect nuclear materials receipts or shipments. Facilitate the preparation and execution of shipper/receiver agreements at the site. Evaluate and authorize the shipments and receipts of nuclear materials in LANMAS and through collaborations with other DOE sites, universities, or other countries. Provide oversight and approval of all Internal Nuclear Material Transfers at INL. Verify that material will not exceed MBA values. Provide oversight to each MBA Custodian on the proper access controls and material surveillance requirements for each MBA based on Safeguards category level. Investigate discrepancies in MBAs. Determine and pursue required actions, write reports, create corrective actions (CAs), and provide lessons learned to ensure performance is increased. Assess the accuracy and methodology of requests for nuclear material adjustments of special nuclear material items and evaluate those requests against DOE requirements for nuclear material control and accountability processes. Review, approve, and implement facility documents associated with MC&A. Provide oversight of MBAs, including training all MBA Custodians (in all INL organizations) and guiding the establishment of MBAs and appointing/releasing all MBACs. Define the criteria used to assess pass/fail criteria for the MBACs across INL. Assess the implementation of corrective actions related to previous opportunities for improvement or discrepancies discovered over the previous year. Complete Basic Instructor Training (BIT) and train other Safeguards and INL Nuclear Operations personnel. Manage the Tamper Indicating Device (TID) program, including acquisition and disposition, as well as providing training to all individuals who act as witnesses for application and removal. This includes managing the purchasing and budgeting of TIDs to ensure the specifications required by DOE are met and implemented.

Required:

Level 2: Bachelor's degree in a scientific field or accounting degree and 2 years of relevant working experience, an advanced degree in the same fields, or 8... For full info follow application link. Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. It is the policy of INL to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

Job Posting:

2527314

Posted On:

Apr 14, 2026

Updated On:

Apr 14, 2026