Job Description

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:

$221,000 - $375,700

*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.

What Your Job Will Be Like:

The Director for Asset Security and WMD Response reports to the Associate Lab Director for Global Security and leads Sandia’s Nuclear Counterterrorism and Incident Response program and Sandia’s sustainment work for the NNSA Secure Transportation mission. Other work involves specialized security projects at the intersection of the nuclear weapons and transportation programs using a systems-of-systems approach. The Director also leads a Center of approximately 300 staff in the execution of these programs with many matrixed staff partners from across the laboratory.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Set the strategic vision for assigned mission areas and implement plans to achieve.
• Maintain key customer relationships with transparency, early issue identification, solutions, and strategy.
• Serve on assigned laboratory level governance and strategy boards.
• Develop partnerships to amplify mission execution.
• Plan for and strengthen the health of core capabilities.
• Provide oversight, assurance, execution, and coordination of assigned programs.
• Provide expertise, evaluation of, and advice for other programs at Sandia.
• Match Sandia capabilities to customer and sponsor needs and task appropriate line organizations to provide resources while organizing adequate support for those resources.
• Manage and develop direct employees and perform other managerial responsibilities including interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
• Lead the conduct of activities in a safe and healthy manner and work in accordance with established ES&H requirements to ensure the protection of employees, the public, and the environment. Takes actions necessary to "stop" work when an unsafe condition or action is identified. Every employee has the right and responsibility to stop work when unsafe conditions or actions are identified.

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

Qualifications We Require:

• Advanced degree in engineering, science, or related discipline.
• 10 years of progressive leadership experience in the nuclear security enterprise to include managing people and experimental operations..
• 5+ years progressive experience interacting with design laboratories, Government representatives, internal and external customers, and suppliers at all levels to negotiate, plan and deliver on customer requirements.
• An active DOE Q level clearance is required to start
• Ability to obtain and maintain an SCI clearance

Qualifications We Desire:

• Change agent for development of a commitment/performance driven proactive culture.
• Organizational savvy and the ability to develop and foster a common vision across functional boundaries.
• Integrative thinker with demonstrated ability to solve complex, multi-faceted problems with due consideration for business and strategic consequences.
• Demonstrated skill to establish and maintain strong and effective customer relations, and to anticipate change and adjust promptly and effectively.
• Excellent communication skills (written, verbal, public speaking) are required.
• 10+ years experience from two or more of the specific mission areas described in the summary above.
• 10+ years leading Programs for a DHS/DOE/NNSA/DoD customer.
• 5 years’ experience developing opportunities with other Federal customers.
• Extensive relationships within the Nuclear Security Enterprise.
• Extensive managerial experience related to program management.
• Demonstrated positive impact of leadership ability, including direct and influence management skills.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic and lean environment and deal creatively with resource constraint issues and uncertainty.
• Strong technical acumen in nuclear weapons with history of effective communication with a broad range of technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks and changing priorities, mediate conflict, and apply leadership concepts and techniques.
• Experience with hazardous operations, specifically explosives test range management.
• Experience with DOE nuclear physical security requirements and operations.

About Our Team:

6600 ASSET SECURITY & WMD RESPONSEWe assure protection of critical assets and the public against national and global security risks by developing superior technologies, optimized for operator performance.

• Design, assess and deploy systems for critical asset protection
• Develop advanced technologies to prevent the use of WMD or improvised weapons and diagnose the effects of threat events and use the analysis for emergency planning and response
• Provide energetic, penetration and training systems associated with defense systems, global response, global strike, and homeland defense, and force protection
• Create software security solutions to protect assets and defeat WMD

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:

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.

Job ID: 694309

Job Family: EX

Regular/Temporary Position: R

Full/Part-Time Status: F

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.