Operations Manager, WESF

Overview

External Job Opportunity

Title:

Operations Manager, WESF;
Position Number: 40843;
Company:
Central Plateau Cleanup Comp;
City/State:
Richland, WA;

Location:

Hanford, WA (200E);
Posted: 01/20/2026;
Closes: 01/27/2026;
Regular/Temporary:
Regular;
Full/Part-Time:
Full-Time

Work Safe, Make a Difference, and Be a Part of History with the CPCCo Team!

At the Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo), located in Richland, Washington, we are working to provide a sustainable future for the historic Hanford area through the protection of the Columbia River and the remediation of the Central Plateau. To achieve our mission, we need exceptionally talented, innovative, and driven people to help us reduce risks on the Hanford Site by removing some of the most hazardous waste streams and facilities in the Department of Energy (DOE) complex.

If you would like to work with a highly skilled workforce to achieve unique and challenging goals that critically impact our environment and community, this is your chance to be a part of our legacy!

A day in the life of the Waste Encapsulation Storage Facility (WESF) Operations Manager, reporting directly to the WESF Facility Manager, includes, but is not limited to:

• Fostering a culture that places worker safety as our number one priority, recognizes and supports our workforce for the subject matter experts that they are and promoting the approach of accomplishing our work safely, compliantly and productively.
• Providing leadership and overall project operations performance at WESF.
• Adhering to Conduct of Operations (CONOPS) principles, Technical Safety Requirements, Fire Hazards Analysis requirements, environmental regulations and Criticality Safety.
• Implementing and mentoring CONOPS in the field to support continuous improvement.
• Taking necessary actions to achieve project goals and milestones safely and compliantly.
• Ensuring bargaining unit and exempt operations personnel are fully trained and qualified to perform assigned tasks.
• Overseeing operations personnel to ensure adherence to CONOPS principles, safety and health requirements, HAMTC bargaining unit agreement, and use of authorized work documents.
• Ensuring technical work documents are prepared to provide appropriate work direction in a safe and efficient manner.
• Reviewing and approving technical documents.
• Participating in the work management system through the processes of: work item validation, field work planning, coordinating subject matter expert support, document approval as Responsible Manager in the work management system, scheduling of resources through the plan of the month, plan of the week and plan of the day processes.
• Conducting assessments and qualifying as a Responsible Manager in the Performance Assurance system. Participate in critiques and causal analysis, development of corrective actions, lessons learned and managing the Integrated Contractor Assurance System to track actions to closure.
• Successfully interacting and communicating with supporting organizations.
• Ensuring facility/system configuration control is maintained.
• Qualifying to assume the Facility Manager's position in their absence.

Manager Grade 22 - Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience plus 12 years of relevant experience and at least 2 years of required relevant experience must be nuclear experience

• Recent or previous qualification as a Shift Operations Manager in a DOE Hazard Category 2 non-reactor nuclear facility.
• Recent or previous qualification as a Building Emergency Director.
• Previous Facility Operations management experience, with a strong focus on Conduct of Operations elements as applied in a nuclear facility.
• Experience in Nuclear Material management, Transuranic, Low-Level and Mixed Waste management.
• Managing bargaining unit issues/teams and facility maintenance.

In accordance with the CPCCo salary determination process, CPCCo takes into consideration the level of assigned job duties and responsibilities, and the candidate's education, training, and/or experience relative to internal peers and the external labor…