Employee Concerns Program Lead

Internal Service Fund; United States; On-site; USD 126,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

Energy Northwest is seeking an experienced ECP professional to support and administer the corporate-wide Employee Concerns Program, promoting a strong compliance culture across the organization. You will handle worker concerns, investigate and refer matters, and respond to NRC requests for information to strengthen nuclear safety culture.

You will collaborate with leaders to ensure robust compliance, design site-wide surveys and training, maintain program records, and coordinate with Human

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Certification from NECPP or ability to acquire within 12 months.
• Seven years’ experience in nuclear related operations.
• Experience with 10 CFR 50 Appendix B or similar corrective action program in a nuclear environment.
• Minimum of at least three years implementing and/or conducting cause evaluations or investigations.

Responsibilities

• Advocate and support maintaining a compliance program consistent with 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 for the compliance and concerns programs.
• Receive and investigate worker concerns on a variety of matters including complex issues.
• Consult subject matter experts or refer issues to Human Resources or Industrial Safety as appropriate.
• Receive, research, and respond to NRC allegation requests for information.
• Promote a healthy nuclear safety culture through assessments, panels, reviews, and articles.
• Establish, control, and maintain program records and files.
• Ensure compliance with applicable laws and guidelines (e.g., 10 CFR 50.5, 50.7).
• Support leadership principles, expectations, and techniques.
• Promote ethics and compliance through training and engagement.
• Perform duties in lieu of the Compliance and Concerns Manager when delegated.
• Participate as an Emergency Response Team member.
• Perform a pre-outage or outage assignment.

Education

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university

National Association of Employee Concerns Professionals Certification

Job description

Posting closes at 11:59 PM the day before the listed end date. Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite in Richland, WA.

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.

• 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

• 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.
• Seven years' experience in nuclear related operations.
• Experience with the corrective action program 10CFR50 Appendix B or a similar corrective action program within a nuclear environment.
• Minimum of at least three years of implementing and/or conducting cause evaluations or investigations.

Pay Range $126,362.00 - $157,952.00 Annual The salary listed represents the pay range for this position. Starting pay is calculated from the minimum of the salary range and actual individual placement within the range is determined based on the candidate's experience, education, skills, and abilities related to the role. The level and final offer will also take into account the candidate's overall qualifications.

Incentive Compensation This position is eligible for an annual at-risk compensation (ARC) incentive plan. Incentives are earned based on agency performance against defined metrics and goals which follow eligibility rules within the ARC plan document.

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!

Equal Opportunity Employer All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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As a regional leader in clean energy generation and public power solutions, Energy Northwest develops, owns and operates a diverse mix of electricity generating resources, including hydro, solar, battery storage and wind projects – and the Northwest’s only nuclear power facility. Energy Northwest is a Washington state joint operating agency comprised of public power member utilities, serving more than 1.5 million customers. The agency continually explores new generation projects and solutions to meet its members’ needs.