UPF Maintenance Manager

Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC; Oak Ridge (TN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC in Oak Ridge, TN seeks an experienced UPF Maintenance Manager to lead daily maintenance of nuclear processing equipment, ensure safety compliance, and drive continuous improvement.

The role requires strategic planning, strong leadership, and the ability to manage budgets and cross-functional teams in a complex nuclear environment. DOE/NA standards knowledge preferred, with a focus on timely, safe execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and 7+ years of nuclear facilities experience.
• Experience with strategic and tactical planning, customer service, disciplined operations, and continuous improvement.
• Familiarity with nuclear safety, DOE/NNSA requirements, and facility safety analyses.

Responsibilities

• Daily maintenance & business operations on nuclear processing equipment with strict safety compliance.
• Lead and develop a multi-disciplinary team, resolving personnel issues and addressing union concerns.
• Collaborate with project teams to ensure smooth turnover of equipment to maintenance.
• Oversee design/document reviews to improve maintenance efficiency and long-term maintainability.
• Direct oversight of execution supervisors to align with asset management goals.
• Monitor safety metrics, incidents, and cost information to drive ISMS and operations programs.
• Interface with multiple stakeholders to schedule work and identify hazards via field walkdowns.
• Develop annual labor and non-labor budgets and strategic plans with risk analyses.
• Maintain UPF technical specs and adherence to project directives.

Skills

Nuclear facility management

Leadership

Strategic planning

Operations management

Safety compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Job description

Career Opportunities: UPF Maintenance Manager (20281)

Requisition ID20281-Posted09/23/2026-Maintenance- Level of Experience (1) -No travel required- Job Location Options (1)

Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Job Title: UPF Maintenance Manager
Career Level From: Manager
Career Level To:
Job Specialty: Infrastructure Maintenance Services

What You'll Do

This role serves as the Manager for UPF Maintenance Execution, reporting directly to the UPF Asset Management Senior Manager. You will be responsible for the daily delivery of nuclear facility and production equipment maintenance, leading a complex, multi-disciplined line management team of exempt professionals, non-exempt professionals, and bargaining-unit craft.
The successful candidate must have demonstrated experience in strategic and tactical planning, customer service, disciplined operations, and continuous improvement. Experience with plant management systems is required, including safety, security, conduct of operations, nuclear criticality safety, nuclear safety analysis, and associated technical safety requirements.

Responsibilities

• Daily Maintenance & Business Operations: Execute daily maintenance and business operations on nuclear processing equipment, systems, and components within the UPF, ensuring strict compliance with nuclear criticality safety bases and procedural compliance practices.
• Leadership & Team Management: Lead and provide personal interaction to promote a positive work environment. Assist in resolving personnel problems, employee complaints, and union issues/grievances where applicable.
• Project & Turnover Management: Partner with the UPF project team and project turnover manager on equipment and system technical requirements to ensure seamless operational turnover to the maintenance organization.
• Design & Document Review: Ensure detailed, documented reviews of processes, systems, and equipment designs via vendor submissions to maximize maintenance efficiency and long-term equipment maintainability.
• Supervision & Execution Control: Provide direct oversight of Execution Supervisors in the execution of maintenance work to support asset management strategies and field execution priorities, as required by DOE O 422.1 for Nuclear Facilities.
• Performance Monitoring: Monitor key performance indicators, safety incidents/statistics, and cost information to drive implementation of Integrated Safety Management (ISMS) principles, Conduct of Operations, and other plant programs.
• Stakeholder & Customer Interface: Serve as the primary point of contact to collaborate with maintenance coordinators, planning leads, and stakeholders across multiple organizations to support integrated scheduling and plan-of-the-day meetings. Ensure direct reports perform field walkdowns to accurately identify scopes and analyze hazards.
• Financial & Strategic Planning: Develop and maintain annual labor and non-labor operating budgets, and formulate strategic plans and corresponding risk analyses to drive understanding of risk and mission delivery.
• Technical Compliance: Maintain a thorough understanding of UPF technical specifications for processes, systems, and equipment along with operational and maintenance requirements defined in Project directives.

What You Can Expect

• Meaningful work and unique opportunities to support missions vital to national and global security
• Top-notch, dedicated colleagues
• Generous pay and benefits with a stable organization
• Career advancement and professional development programs
• Work-life balance fostered through flexible work options and wellness initiatives
• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience.
• Alternative: Applicants with a high school diploma may be considered on an exceptional basis if they have 15 or more years of relevant experience in lieu of the Bachelor's degree and 7 years of relevant experience.
• Nuclear Facility Standards: Applicant must meet the requirements of DOE O 426.2 (i.e., High School diploma and 3 years of nuclear experience, or a DOE O 426.2 alternative). Newly hired personnel in the interim will not be assigned duties that could impact the safety basis of nuclear facilities.

Preferred Job Requirements

• Relevant experience associated with the management and operations of nuclear facilities, Nuclear Criticality Safety, Safety Basis management, and commensurate nuclear operations.
• Work experience with DOE and/or NNSA Orders and practices is highly preferred.

Why Y-12?

You get #morethanajob. We encourage employees to achieve a healthy personal balance among home, work and the community. One of the ways we embrace work-life balance is by offering flexible work arrangements that provide alternatives to the traditional workweek, while still meeting business needs. Top talent and personal commitment mean more to our success than any other factors, so we reward our people with the kinds of benefits that make a positive difference in the quality of their lives. Benefits such as: medical plan, prescription drug plan, vision plan, dental plan, employer matched 401(k) savings plan, disability coverage, education reimbursement and many more. Want to stay healthy and fit but hate the cost of a gym membership? Take advantage of one of our onsite workout facilities and eat healthy in our onsite cafeterias. Much more than a workplace, at Y-12, you can build a career that lasts a lifetime.

Notes

The minimum education and experience for the lowest career level in the job posting range are listed under Minimum Job Requirements. Successful candidates hired into a higher career level than the minimum in the range must meet the requirements listed in the job leveling charts for the career level into which they are being hired.

If a range of Career Levels is posted, i.e., Senior Associate to Senior Specialist, internal applicants already in one of the Career Levels would come across at their current Career Level. Internal applicants currently in a lower level Career Level would move to the lowest posted Career Level.

Requires a Q clearance; however all qualified candidates will be considered regardless of their current clearance status. The ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy Q clearance is required.

This position may require entry into the Material Access Areas (MAA) and participation in the Human Reliability Program (10 C.F.R. Part 712), which requires successful competition of a DOE counterintelligence evaluation and may include a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination.

This position may be categorized as a “designated position” identified by 10 C.F.R. Part 709, requiring successful completion of a DOE counterintelligence evaluation that may include a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination.

CNS is a drug-free workplace. Candidates accepting a job offer will be required to pass a pre-placement physical, drug screening and background investigation. As an employee, you may be required to receive and maintain a security clearance from the United States Department of Energy in order to meet eligibility requirements for access to sensitive information or matter. U.S. citizenship is a requirement for security clearance applicants. All employees are subject to being randomly selected for drug testing without advance notification.

CNS is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment based on merit and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status or disability.