Cleared Senior Manager Strategic High Energy Density (HED) Capabilities, Onsite (Sandia)

Job Description

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.

What Your Job Will Be Like:

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Manager to lead the Strategic High Energy Density (HED) Capabilities group within the Pulsed Power Sciences Center (1600). In this pivotal role, you will coordinate efforts across 1600, Sandia National Laboratories, and the Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE) to develop and implement strategies that enhance future pulsed power capabilities, aligning with the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) stockpile stewardship program.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the Center Leadership Team to formulate integrated strategies for advancing future capabilities.
• Plan and negotiate major capital acquisitions to support the development of cutting-edge pulsed power technologies.
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• Coordinate and integrate technical and operational maturity advancements and track progress toward delivering future capabilities.
• Develop and implement strategies for engaging with private industry to foster innovation in pulsed power capabilities, while managing these strategic partnerships effectively.
• Lead strategic planning to upgrade the Z Facility, the most powerful pulsed power machine in the world, over the next 5-10 years and secure a new high-yield fusion facility within the next 20-25 years, leveraging advancements from private fusion companies.

Daily Activities May Include:

• Coordinating strategy and execution plans to achieve critical decisions for capital projects and related program investments to enable Z capability upgrades and next-generation HED facilities.
• Ensuring the development of comprehensive project plans, including schedule, scope, budget, staffing, and risk management.
• Engaging in program development and business development initiatives within and beyond the nuclear deterrence program, collaborating across all three NNSA national laboratories.
• Serving as a technical representative for facility projects, providing expertise and guidance.
• Overseeing activities that involve the creation and application of scientific theories, engineering methods, and operational management disciplines to develop and demonstrate innovative designs, concepts, materials, machines, products, processes, equipment, and systems.

Why Join Us?

At the Pulsed Power Sciences Center, you will be at the forefront of scientific innovation, contributing to national security and advancing cutting-edge technologies. Join us in shaping the future of pulsed power capabilities and making a meaningful impact on our national security.

Due to the nature of the work the selected applicant must be able to work onsite in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Salary Range:

$184,400 - $313,700

*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.

Qualifications We Require:

• Master’s degree or higher in a STEM field
• Eight years of experience in physics or engineering
• Five or more years of demonstrated leadership and/or managerial experience
• Experience developing strategy, plans, and program development with external customers and stakeholders
• Experience with program and/or project planning and execution
• Current, active DOE Q security clearance

Qualifications We Desire:

• PhD in engineering or science
• Demonstrated ability to lead a complex, diverse, cross-organizational, cross-functional team and ability to collaborate for successful delivery
• Demonstrated experience presenting at large technical and/or scientific conferences
• Knowledge and experience with pulsed power and/or high energy density experimental facilities
• Experience managing experimental research capabilities
• Demonstrated ability to mentor others to be leaders
• Experience working with the Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration; the Department of Defense; the Intelligence Community; the UK Atomic Weapons Establishment; and the Nuclear Security Enterprise.
• Knowledge and experience with DOE Order 413.3B

About Our Team:

The Strategic High Energy Density (HED) Capabilities group is responsible for coordinating pulsed power strategic capability planning, development, and program integration to ensure Center 1600 is equipped to deliver future mission objectives in the areas of nuclear explosive package physics, material science, hostile survivability, and high-yield fusion. This group is also responsible for collaborating across 1600 to advance the science and engineering of future pulsed power capabilities and project execution. This group anticipates the needs of the nuclear security enterprise, identifies options to meet those needs, and develops plans to address them. It utilizes the best construction, engineering, science, and operations principles to deliver the highest value product to the NNSA. It builds trusted partnerships internal and external to the Labs to achieve its mission.

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.

Security Clearance:

Position requires a Department of Energy (DOE) Q security clearance to start, or equivalent active security clearance with another U.S. government agency (e.g., DOD). Sandia is required by DOE directive 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 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.

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.

Job ID: 695219

Job Family: RD

Regular/Temporary Position: R

Full/Part-Time Status: F