Meteorologist

Location

Amarillo, TX - Pantex Plant

Meteorologist

Specialist

Emergency Management )

Emergency Preparedness

As the Emergency Management meteorologist, coordinate, support, and work with the Engineering Meteorologist for all meteorological associated tasks and assignments, assess system health and performance, and provide overall technical responsibility for meteorological system operability and maintenance activities. This position provides meteorological technical guidance to various organizations within the Pantex plant. The role includes helping create forecasts during emergency situations and inclement weather conditions as well as managing and developing multiple meteorological sensor networks, and continuing research into the precursors of mesoscale convective storm formation in the Texas panhandle.

The position optimizes Pantex’s response to lightning threats, ensuring that protective measures are effectively implemented when necessary, while at the same time minimizing unnecessary production interruptions due to overly conservative lightning threat assessments. The role will also provide the capability of plume modeling for hazardous materials in planning for and mitigating an emergency.

Travel throughout the Texas Panhandle will occur, but no overnight stays are required and personal transportation is not needed as company transportation will be used.

In addition, the applicant must meet the requirements of a Department of Energy (DOE) Qualified Meteorologist, which includes the following:

• Must quality assure and archive on-site meteorological monitoring program data
• Respond to sitewide customer data requests.
• Conduct meteorological analyses, which include some consultation, and assist customers in determining their actual data needs.
• Provide weather forecasts for operations and Emergency Management including, but not limited to, snow and ice events, severe weather events, flooding, large hail and tornadoes.
• Research background to assist customers with a wide variety of meteorological analyses.
• Provide modeling capability for emergency planning and event purposes.
• Develop, implement and maintain procedures and systems related to the on-site meteorology program.
• Develop reports that document meteorological data quality and completeness.
• Assist all customers with on-demand meteorological data needs and applied data analysis.
• Analyze local and regional weather data to provide user-specific forecasts.
• Assist the site meteorologist with meteorological data interpretation to support leadership decisions, such as extreme weather events and accident-related scenarios.
• Provide decision makers with summary analyses for large amounts of data to determine outliers, trends and scientifically based predictions.

• Bachelor's degree:
  Minimum 4 years of relevant experience. Typical experience ranging from 7 to 10 years.
• Master's degree:
  Minimum 3 years of relevant experience.
• PhD.
• OR applicants without a bachelor's degree may be considered based on a combination of at least 12 years of completed education and/or relevant experience.

• Bachelor’s degree in atmospheric science or meteorology.
• The position requires the ability to provide frequent communication and interactions with a variety of customers, both internal and external.
• Must present information clearly and effectively through oral and written word.

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