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Safeguards and Security Lead

Aalo· Nuclear Operations
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Idaho Falls, ID, Austin, TXfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Lead the Idaho Falls safeguards, physical security, access-control, and nuclear material security program supporting CTR, Aalo-0, Aalo-X, construction, testing, and operations. Protect personnel, facilities, sensitive information, equipment, and nuclear material through graded, threat-informed controls aligned with DOE authorization basis and regulatory requirements. Reports to the Senior Vice President, Nuclear Operations, with direct access to the CEO for significant security, insider-threat, or nuclear material concerns; responsible for physical security of the Austin, TX facilities.

Responsibilities

  • Develop, implement, and maintain the safeguards and security program, plans, procedures, post orders, security risk assessments, performance measures, and corrective-action processes for Idaho Falls activities.
  • Develop and implement a physical security program for the Austin TX Manufacturing and Office facilities.
  • Establish graded physical-protection measures for site boundaries, protected areas, buildings, vital equipment, construction areas, control rooms, storage locations, and nuclear material consistent with assessed threats and applicable requirements.
  • Lead access authorization, badging, visitor control, escorting, key and credential control, alarm response, security-force interfaces, and personnel-security coordination.
  • Establish nuclear material security and control requirements for receipt, possession, use, movement, storage, inventory, tamper indication, anomaly response, and transfer; coordinate formal material control and accountability functions with qualified technical owners.
  • Develop response plans for intrusion, theft, diversion, sabotage, insider threat, suspicious behavior, security-system degradation, missing material, and law-enforcement events.
  • Coordinate security interfaces with DOE, Idaho National Laboratory, MFC, local and federal law enforcement, emergency responders, transportation organizations, and future regulators as applicable.
  • Protect security-sensitive information, vulnerability information, access records, nuclear material data, and other controlled information in coordination with information-security and records-management functions.
  • Conduct drills, performance tests, assessments, investigations, and management observations; enter deficiencies into the corrective action program and verify durable closure.
  • Stop work, restrict access, isolate areas, suspend material movement, or elevate concerns whenever physical protection, authorization, accountability, staffing, equipment, or response capability is inadequate.

Qualifications

  • Six or more years of progressively responsible nuclear safeguards, physical security, nuclear material control and accountability, law enforcement, military security, or high-consequence infrastructure protection experience.
  • Two or more years in a leading security or safeguards role at a commercial nuclear power plant, DOE nuclear facility, national laboratory, nuclear-fuel-cycle facility, or comparable high-security operation.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of physical protection, access authorization, insider-threat mitigation, contingency planning, security systems, vulnerability assessment, incident response, investigations, and security performance testing.
  • Demonstrated experience protecting, controlling, or accounting for special nuclear material or other regulated nuclear material, including receipt, storage, movement, inventory, anomaly response, and transfer interfaces.
  • Working knowledge of applicable DOE safeguards and security directives and relevant NRC physical-protection and material-control requirements; ability to translate the governing authorization framework into executable controls.
  • Experience coordinating with DOE, national laboratories, law enforcement, emergency management, transportation organizations, regulators, and armed or contract protective forces.
  • Strong judgment, discretion, investigative skill, written communication, and ability to act decisively on sensitive or incomplete information.
  • Bachelor’s degree in security management, criminal justice, nuclear technology, engineering, physical science, or a related field preferred; substantial directly applicable experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree.

Skills

Required:Safeguards and security program developmentPhysical security managementAccess control and personnel securityNuclear material control and accountability

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Health, Dental, Vision Insurance
  • Paid Time Off
  • Corporate Gym Membership
Last updated Sep 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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