Senior Program Planner
US Citizenship Required - 1 position
SRNS @ SRS, Aiken, SC
RFQ# 1266 / contract: 1-year w/ 2 opt years / Deadline 12/13/2024

SUMMARY:
Provide ongoing, mid-range tactical, and long-range strategic level planning support and expertise for identifying and developing broad or moderately complex technical, scientific, or other programmatic initiatives and objectives that require a comprehensive analysis of site or other functional capabilities. Analysis and plan development will typically involve extensive plans, forecasts, schedules, detailed, long-range budgets, and resource estimates. Positions staffed at this level usually address strategic initiatives with one-year or longer planning cycle times. Safety is a primary responsibility in each job performed. Obtain safety training, obey safety rules, and make safety an integral part of each task. Take the necessary steps to stop work if continuing the job is unsafe or will create an unsafe condition.
Duties may include:
Plan, coordinate, and develop the Five-Year Plan, Annual Operating Plan, and other related Program cycle plans and documents. Long-range planning and document preparation may be focused on the department, division, or site program level. Prepare and present periodic written reports, reviews, self-assessments, and presentations addressing tracking or status of various program management activities, milestones, schedules, and objectives. Such reports are detailed and typically include a broad scope of financial, technical, or other performance data and require considerable preparation time.
Prepare detailed studies of specific or broad technical, scientific, or other programmatic issues in response to program change requests from DOE or other customers or oversight agencies. These issues, initiatives, and objectives may be defined at the department, division, or site level. Typically, the studies will be moderately complex and have a cycle of up to one year but less than 40 years.
Develop or assist in developing integrated approaches or alternatives to moderately complex programs, projects, or other programmatic issues that may involve consideration of technical, scientific, financial, and strategic planning issues that would impact SRS, the DOE Complex, or other strategic national nuclear, environmental, or energy initiatives. Serve on site-wide or complex-wide task teams to develop, improve, and recommend integrated and enhanced strategies and methodologies to both long-range program planning as well as approaches and alternatives to a variety of technical and scientific objectives and initiatives which can have long-term future implications to DOE, national defense, nuclear safety, and other environmental issues and capabilities. May function as an expert consultant on a specific technical area indirectly supported through the program planning function.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Education/Experience:
Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field such as finance, economics, engineering, or Management and at least 18-20 years of experience in project planning, program planning, and budgeting in a specific subject, focus, or discipline. Only in the most limited instances will a lesser formal education provide the necessary foundation of knowledge for success in the position and serve as a suitable substitute or equivalent.
A comprehensive knowledge of program/project planning practices is necessary to use methodologies used for government or other large organizations to support a specific functional area or on a broader organizational basis at the strategic level.
An in-depth understanding of the specific functional area or broader organizational objectives being supported is required.
Knowledge of specific DOE orders and guidelines along with a thorough understanding of and practical experience in the application of sound, generally accepted, long-range business planning principles is important.
Research information sources for data in support of technical, scientific, or financial/budget programmatic objectives, primarily from the standpoint of long-range planning.
The candidate must have extensive 18-20 years of SRS experience and an understanding of site procedures and practices.
Candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a DOE "Q" security clearance.