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Posting Duration:

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the ‘posting date’. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

NNSA Requirements for MedPEDs:

If you have a Medical Portable Electronic Device (MedPED), such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, drug-releasing pump, hearing aids, or diagnostic equipment and other equipment for measuring, monitoring, and recording body functions such as heartbeat and brain waves, if employed by Sandia National Laboratories you may be required to comply with NNSA security requirements for MedPEDs.

If you have a MedPED and you are selected for an on-site interview at Sandia National Laboratories, there may be additional steps necessary to ensure compliance with NNSA security requirements prior to the interview date.

Salary Range:

$208,400 - $354,500

*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

What Your Job Will Be Like:

We are seeking a Senior Manager (job title: Senior Manager, R&D Scienc SG.) This group (8220) is located in California. Several existing ND services and capabilities will be brought together to form a new organization: ND Engineering Services and Capabilities (8220). This new organization will include Sandia Programs Engineering Assembly and Research (SPEAR), Test Assembly Group (TAG), Environmental Test, Calibration, the Machine Shop, Cable Fabrication, and Additive Manufacturing (current depts. 8264, 8524, 8524-1, and 8525). In addition to constructing hardware builds, 8220 staff will perform system and subsystem testing for qualification and integration needs at the system level.

As a new group, Org. 8220 will look to strategically partner with their New Mexico counterparts to develop unique infrastructure that builds Sandia’s resilience for these activities while simultaneously avoiding duplication. While this infrastructure will directly support the needs of SNL’s ND programs, it is expected that it will also provide services that others at the California site can leverage.

The selected candidate will oversee approximately 70 employees within the three departments of 8220. On any given day, you may be called on to:

• Manage operations to include planning, directing, and organizing the production of complex integrated engineering products

• Ensure that customer needs are satisfied safely and securely, through managing and coordinating specific deliverables, overall program and project plans, budgets, structures, schedules, and staffing requirements

• Supervise and manage members of the workforce within the organization, including hiring, professional development, and assessment and performance management, consistent with the mission of the organization

• Possess a deep understanding of safety and security as it relates to its intimate integration with operations

• Foster a culture of inclusion and take an active leadership role in modeling and growing values in diversity, equity, and inclusion

• Advocate for needs of department through levels of management, within internal and external program offices and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

• Lead continuous improvement initiatives including development and implementation of new technology and processes as they specifically relate to advanced manufacturing

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite.

Qualifications We Require:

• Master’s degree in a relevant discipline and 6 years of related experience; or Bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline and 10 years of related experience; or PhD in relevant discipline and 2 years of related experience

• Minimum of five years of demonstrated leadership and/or managerial experience

• Experience collaborating with NNSA laboratories and/or production entities

• Demonstrated ability to deliver complex integrated engineering products

• Experience presenting to large audiences and/or senior or executive leadership

• Experience managing or leading operations involving ES&H and/or security challenges

• Experience leading high rigor activity level work, which includes executing safety and security as it relates to its integration with operations

• Ability and willingness to travel up to 25%

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. DOE Q-level security clearance

Qualifications We Desire:

• Five years of experience as a first level manager, including line management experience over activity level work

• Experience collaborating with DOE/Federal Agency program oversight personnel

• Knowledge and experience operating in a DOE direct funded program

• Proficiency in high security manufacturing operations

• Experience with acquisition, construction project management, commissioning, and planning related to machine tools and other technical manufacturing capabilities and supporting infrastructure

• Demonstrated understanding of structured management assurance systems

• Experience in product lifecycle management and configuration management

• Experience leading/initiating continuous improvement activities (e.g., lean six sigma events, demand planning studies, structured improvement activities)

• Demonstrated experience partnering with facilities to oversee infrastructure improvements and equipment installation

• Ability to work with sensitive information and classified matter

• Strong interpersonal skills, including people management, written and oral communications, and ability to negotiate

• Ability to interact effectively with all levels of internal and external customers, including the ability to build and manage effective working relationships

• Demonstrated ability to deliver results, effectively manage people, and guide multidisciplinary teams

• Demonstrated ability to motivate employees, handle personnel issues and resolve conflicts

• Ability to develop a culture of inclusion and take an active leadership role in modeling and growing values in diversity, equity, and inclusion

About Our Team:

Center 8200 supports Sandia's nuclear weapons mission, performing weapon system design, stockpile stewardship, and scientific research for the National Nuclear Security Administration. The center leads efforts that enable the laboratory to assess the safety, security, and reliability of the nuclear stockpile while leading efforts to aid in its modernization, specifically the W80-4.

About Sandia:

Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:

• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide

• Extraordinary co-workers

• Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world

• Career advancement and enrichment opportunities

• Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)

• Generous vacations, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*

World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://www.sandia.gov*These benefits vary by job classification.

Security Clearance:

Sandia is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.

Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

EEO:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

Job ID: 693486

Job Family: RD

Regular/Temporary Position: R

Full/Part-Time Status: F