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
$88,600 – $172,300
*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 self-motivated and creative Technical Project Manager to join our multidisciplinary team and lead activities related to system level design, engineering, and implementation of complex physical security systems to protect critical DoD, NNSA and DOE assets and defense capabilities. We provide system effectiveness analysis, modeling, simulation, and electronic security engineering capabilities for the Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE). The successful applicant will work with other technical teams and partners to ensure cost, schedule, and scope are balanced for meeting project due dates.
On any given day, you may be called on to:
- Handle customer technical requirements and deriving them into functional and operational requirements during the design process.
- Implement technical requirements through design definition activities, such as design reports, engineering drawings, and specification.
- Build system or sub system test plans that are traced to requirements and implement test plans either in laboratory, test field, or implementation site during system testing.
- Have awareness of many different areas of engineering to address system level challenges throughout the life cycle of a project; design/testing/implementation when electing commercial products for procurement that meet specifications and customer requirements.
- Serve as a technical project lead for internal Sandia organizations, as well as customers and suppliers.
- Coordinate project management activities including project plan development and execution, project monitoring and control, and coordinated change control for large, complex, and high-rigor projects.
- Use a strong technical understanding of the risks and opportunities to ensure that all are accurately prioritized and addressed.
- Collaborate with other Technical Project Managers to improve and mature project management practices supporting the department, identify resource constraints and share lessons learned.
- Provide construction management services to ensure that physical security projects at customer locations are completed safely, on time, and under budget.
- Provide proper coordination with the construction management support and inspection service contractors to effectively schedule and manage all construction work. Develops an integrated construction contractor schedule to lead all work as a program aligned to an assigned geographic area or team.
This position will require about 25% to 50% travel during the year.
Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite.
Qualifications We Require
- Bachelor’s in STEM field, plus 2 years of relevant technical experience.
- Experience in program or project leadership.
- Current PMP certification or equivalent certification, or the ability to obtain within 12 months.
- Ability to obtain and maintain DOE Q-level security clearance.
Qualifications We Desire
- Experience in physical security system Design, Testing, and Engineering
- Ability to analyze and breakdown systems into manageable and discrete parts for better understanding and troubleshooting
- Experience deriving system requirements into sub-system and component requirements
- Ability to make decisions requiring scientific or engineering judgment across more than one field
- Experience in military based security analysis or technologies (interior/exterior sensors, video, networks, data fusion, etc.) and / or experience with DoD applications of physical security
- Experience with part/material selection and ordering
- Experience with calibrating test equipment
- Process management experience
- Demonstrated experience stewarding positive relationships with DoD and DOE sponsors
- Ability to excel within a fast-paced dynamic environment
- Possess a strong dedication to positive teaming dynamic, strong written and verbal skills, detail oriented with a keen focus on customer service
- Active DOE Q-level or DOD equivalent security clearance.
About Our Team
The Nuclear Security Engineering and Operations Department assesses, designs, tests, and implements physical security systems to protect critical national security assets for interagency and international partners. The department provides subject matter experts in project management, policy and risk analysis, vulnerability assessments, intrusion detection, video assessment, entry control, alarm communication and display, response force planning, and modeling and simulation.
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.