Employee Concerns Program Lead

energynorthwest; Richland (WA); On-site; USD 126,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

Pension/401(k) plan

Paid holidays

No state income tax in WA

Job summary

Energy Northwest in Richland, WA is seeking an experienced professional to support and administer the Employee Compliance and Concerns Program, promoting a positive safety culture and minimizing risk. The role involves handling worker concerns, investigating or referring issues, and coordinating NRC-allegation responses.

You will work with leadership and regulatory teams to ensure federal guidelines are met, design site surveys, and maintain records.

Qualifications

• Seven years nuclear power plant experience including working knowledge of 10 CFR 50 App. B.
• Minimum of at least three years of implementing and/or conducting cause evaluations or investigations.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
• NAECP Certification or ability to acquire within 12 months.

Responsibilities

• Advocate and support maintaining a compliance program consistent with the federal guidelines.
• Consult with management on compliance and concerns matters.
• Design and administer site-wide surveys, training, and communications pertaining to the compliance and concerns programs.
• Receive and investigate worker concerns on a variety of matters including technically complex issues; consult SMEs or refer issues as appropriate.
• Receive, research, and respond to NRC allegation requests for information.
• Facilitate and support efforts to promote a healthy nuclear safety culture (e.g. assessments, NRC panels).
• Establish, control, and maintain appropriate program records and files.
• Maintain awareness and ensure compliance with applicable laws and guidelines.

Skills

Nuclear power plant experience

Cause evaluations / investigations

Regulatory compliance awareness

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

NAECP Certification (or eligible within 12 months)

Job description

GENERAL SUMMARY

Responsible for supporting and executing administration of the corporate-wide Employee Concerns Program to promote a positive compliance culture and minimize risk and misconduct. Receive and respond to various worker concerns, investigating or referring matters as appropriate. Support research and responses to Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) allegation requests for information (RFIs). Collaborate with key functional areas to ensure nuclear safety culture efforts are strong and support the Compliance and Concerns organization.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

Energy Northwest's Employee Compliance and Concerns Program (ECP) involves a blend of relationship building for all employees, leadership support and encouragement, and regulatory relations and communication. The ECP professional will provide support to staff and station leadership to assure a healthy nuclear safety culture agency wide, particularly to staff that have a connection to nuclear business. Ensure actions to satisfy regulatory nuclear safety culture requirements are identified, addressed, and resolved to reduce the potential for negative impacts to Energy Northwest's confidence and trust with employees, the regulator, and the public.

Responsibilities

• Advocate and support maintaining a compliance program consistent with the federal guidelines.
• Consult with management on compliance and concerns matters.
• Conduct networking and benchmarking with other utilities and ECP professional groups.
• Design and administer site-wide surveys, training, and communications pertaining to the compliance and concerns programs.
• Receive and investigate worker concerns on a variety of matters including technically complex issues in accordance with the compliance and concerns programs. Consult subject matter experts or refer issues as appropriate to other organizations (e.g. Human Resources, Industrial Safety).
• Receive, research, and respond to Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) allegation requests for information.
• Facilitate and support efforts to promote a healthy nuclear safety culture (e.g. nuclear safety culture assessments, Nuclear Safety Culture Monitoring Panel, NRC PI&R, EN News Articles, Ask EN reviews feedback)
• Establish, control, and maintain appropriate program records and files.
• Maintain awareness and ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and guidelines (e.g. 10CFR50.5 and 50.7, Section 211 of Energy Reorganization Act, NEI 09-07).
• Support the application of sound leadership principles, expectations, and techniques.
• Promote ethics and compliance culture through training and engagement with staff
• Perform activities in lieu of the Compliance and Concerns Manager when delegated
• Perform as a member of an Emergency Response Team (ERO)
• Perform a pre-outage or outage assignment

REQUIRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

Required education/training includes:

• A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
• National Association of Employee Concerns Professionals Certification, or the ability to acquire certificate within 12 months.

Required experience includes:

• Seven years nuclear power plant experience including working knowledge of 10CFR50 App. B corrective action program.
• Minimum of at least three years of implementing and/or conducting cause evaluations or investigations

Pay Range

$126,362.00 - $189,542.00 Annual Midpoint: $157,952.00
Typically, selected candidates are hired between the minimum and midpoint of the range, based on applicable experience and qualifications, market rate, internal equity, and budgetary allowances. Offers will be negotiated based on each candidate's qualifications.

Incentive Compensation

This role may be eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan. Incentives are earned based on employee performance against defined metrics and company goals.

Benefits

• Energy Northwest (EN) provides a phenomenal benefits package.
• Washington State also has no state income tax, and the Tri-Cities provides a cost-of-living lower than the national average.
• EN offers substantial retirement benefits through three retirement programs including the Washington State Public Employees' Retirement System pension plan (PERS), a 401(k) savings plan with an employer match component, and a 457(b) savings plan.
• EN also offers multiple options for medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance coverage.
• Other voluntary benefits may include flexible spending accounts (FSAs), tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment, childcare subsides, health reimbursement arrangement (HRA VEBA), health savings account (HSA), supplemental life insurances, credit monitoring/identity theft insurance, and more!
• Qualifying employees will typically start a personal time accrual rate of 160 hours per year and EN provides nine paid holidays throughout the Calander year; personal time accruals grow significantly at various service intervals.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate du