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Enterprise Risk Manager

Y-12 National Security Complex
Oak Ridge, TN Full Time
POSTED ON 7/23/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 8/21/2026
Location: Oak Ridge, TN

Job Title: Enterprise Risk Manager

Career Level From: Associate

Career Level To: Specialist

Job Specialty: Enterprise Risk Management

What You'll Do

This Position Performs The Following Duties

  • Facilitates improved decision making through a structured understanding of opportunities and threats across the full spectrum of the enterprise’s risk portfolio.
  • Leads strategic and tactical risk integration efforts across six domains: internal controls, operations, project, programs, portfolios, and the enterprise.
  • Analyzes, designs, and implements processes and predictive models using a wide variety of data sets.
  • Gains insight into key business problems and deliverables by applying statistical analysis techniques to examine structured and unstructured data from multiple disparate sources.
  • Collaborates across departments and with customers to define requirements and understand business problems.
  • Uses advanced mathematics, statistical, querying, and reporting methods to develop solutions.
  • Develops information tools, algorithms, dashboards, and queries to monitor and improve business performance.
  • Creates solutions from initial concept to full implementation and deployment across the enterprise.
  • Effectively uses current and emerging technologies to perform assigned duties.
  • Communicates results to a broad range of audiences, acting as a trusted business advisor to senior and executive staff.

Successful candidates will have the following minimum skills, abilities, and responsibilities.

  • Knowledge: Basic level of knowledge and experience applying technical principles, theories, competencies, and techniques of the Enterprise Risk Management specialty; learning to apply knowledge in solving a wider range of complex technical problems.
  • Scope & Complexity: Problems are technically complex and have known solutions which require some experience, judgment, and an understanding of technical competencies.
  • Autonomy: Some autonomy to make independent decisions on narrowly defined tasks, projects, or issues. Receives instructions on new assignments only. Discretion or judgment within the enterprise risk management job specialty is used to determine how to solve problems. Work is supervised for overall accuracy and quality of results.
  • Impact: Impact of actions contributes to the success or failure of a significant project or the performance of a routine function.
  • Interaction: Interacts and collaborates within and across groups. May provide guidance to others and exercise some persuasion and supervision to accomplish group or departmental goals. May communicate across work groups and with external contacts to represent the organization in providing solutions to difficult technical problems associated with specific projects.

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

Minimum Job Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Physics discipline
  • OR Master's degree in Engineering, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Physics discipline

Preferred Job Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Science discipline: Minimum 4 years of relevant experience (typical engineering/science experience ranging from 6 to 10 years)
  • OR Master's degree: Minimum 2 years of relevant experience
  • OR PhD: No experience
  • Certifications: PMP or PgMP Certification, PMI-RMP Certification, and/or Prosci Change Mgt. Practitioner

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.

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