What You Will Do
Join our world class team! The Associate Laboratory Director of Facilities and Operations (ALDFO) is looking for an enthusiastic and ambitious Project-Program Director. Reporting to Senior Director of Nuclear Safety Programs (NSP) in a portfolio that establishes, maintains, and implements nuclear safety and engineering policy, requirements, and guidance including those related to hazard and accident analysis, facility design and operation, quality assurance, nuclear criticality safety and seismic programs.

As the Program Project Director, you will assist the Senior Director in providing leadership and overall management of assigned technical and operational portfolio, that requires multidisciplinary integration across multiple organizations. The selected candidate will develop, negotiate, and define mission goals and programmatic deliverables, in accord with ALDFO capabilities, capacities, and priorities.

Through the assigned Divisions including Nuclear Criticality Safety, Safety Basis, Plutonium Facilities Engineering, Plutonium Infrastructure Engineering, Engineering Services and Fire Protection, NSP makes all facilities available for the Lab's mission objectives. This position will partner across these divisions to strengthen operations, improve safety culture, and increase operational formality by bringing the right expertise together to encourage organizational learning, better understanding the needs of stakeholders and customers, and enabling simultaneous excellence to better deliver on the national security mission.

What You Need
Minimum Job Requirements:
Technical Leadership:
Knowledge of and experience providing leadership, vision, and strategic and tactical planning for execution of technical programs and projects across the directorate, including formulating, planning and implementation of new program development initiatives and/or performance assurance. Demonstrated ability to direct and develop execution/implementation plans from conception to completion. Broad range of experience in leading programs/projects including defining work scope, schedules, budgets, and funding for work priorities and performance milestones.
Technical Excellence:
Demonstrated ability to assist the Senior Director with responsibility for strategic development methods, techniques, and evaluation and tracking of criteria for programs/projects and for negotiating, authorizing, and directing the use of resources to meet work scope, schedules, budgets, and Laboratory goals.
Personnel Leadership:
Knowledge of and experience in all aspects of personnel management, including but not limited to managing headcount, forecasting, and budgeting, directing assignments, employee hiring and onboarding processes, providing continuous performance management and feedback to further develop staff including annual performance discussions, identification of growth opportunities and recognition. Demonstrated ability to identify potential portfolio risks, develop risk mitigation strategies and corrective actions, and recommend risk acceptance/avoidance for all aspects of the assigned program(s)/project(s). Broad range of experience in implementing and enforcing all Laboratory and regulatory guidance and governance specific to the program/project work of assigned portfolios, while fostering a mutually respectful and inclusive work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment.
Problem Solving:
Demonstrated successful experience working with internal and/or external organizations to evaluate, develop, negotiate, and maintain partnerships and strategic relationships with customers. Works to identify strategic shifts of relevance to the Institutional mission and seeks to position institutional resources for opportunities and actions needed to address future customer needs. Integrates complex program/project work with other Laboratory priorities and commitments, including safety, security, environmental compliance, quality, contractor assurance, and business imperatives.
Influence:
Demonstrated experience in building collaborative relationships and effectively communicating across groups, divisions, and directorates, and externally with other Laboratories. Demonstrated experience working closely with programs and line management to ensure performance including monitoring and tracking cost, schedule, and progress against milestones, while interfacing and negotiating with line managers and customers to accomplish programmatic work.
Communication & Collaboration:
Knowledge of and experience establishing reporting and documentation requirements and serve as the lead spokesperson to report status, manage expectations, and warn of upcoming issues to Laboratory executive managers and to the customer. Broad range of experience directing the integration of significant, unique, and/or complex program/project work with other Laboratory priorities and commitments, including safety, security, environmental compliance, quality, contractor assurance, and business imperatives.
Execution:
Demonstrated knowledge and experience to develop an execution/implementation plan that covers programmatic work from conception to completion. Exerts significant latitude in defining work breakdown structures to assign programmatic deliverables to programs and/or projects to accomplish work. Demonstrated ability to assign clear authority and accountability, and effectively implementing, directing, and managing change while maintaining efficient operations.
Education/Experience: Position requires a Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution and 12 years related experience; or, an equivalent combination of education and experience directly related to the occupation.

Desired Qualifications:

• Advanced knowledge of the Laboratory's organizational structure and programs, including the technical or operational discipline of the assigned portfolio(s), quality assurance, and performance assurance systems.
• Demonstrated competency and understanding of engineering processes and DOE applicable non-nuclear and nuclear codes and standards.
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate with customers, stakeholders, regulators, and management regarding matters of significance to the organization.
• Demonstrated experience in developing and nurturing effective executive-level external and internal customer relationships.
• Demonstrated experience in interacting effectively with all levels of external and internal personnel, building trust, gaining consensus, and resolving conflicts.
• Demonstrated experience in successfully developing, planning, and managing technically complex and multidisciplinary programs/projects.
• Demonstrated experience in effective decision-making and creative problem solving, including the identification of problem areas, investigating alternative solutions, and determining action to be performed that affect operations and mission execution.
• Exceptional ability to gain cooperation of others, conduct presentations of technical and/or function-specific information concerning specific projects or schedules, and preparation and presentation of oral and written reports.
• Experience managing technical contracts.

Clearance: Active DOE Q-Clearance, or ability to obtain an Active Q-Clearance.
Work Location: The work location for this position is onsite and located in Los Alamos, NM. All work locations are at the discretion of management.
Position commitment: Regular appointment employees are required to serve a period of continuous service in their current position in order to be eligible to apply for posted jobs throughout the Laboratory. If an employee has not served the time required, they may only apply for Laboratory jobs with the documented approval of their Division Leader. The position commitment for this position is 1 year.
Note to Applicants:

• Along with your resume, please include a detailed cover letter explaining how you meet each of the minimum requirements and any of the desired qualifications.
• Will require occasional travel.

Where You Will Work
Located in beautiful northern New Mexico, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security. Our generous benefits package includes:

• PPO or High Deductible medical insurance with the same large nationwide network
• Dental and vision insurance
• Free basic life and disability insurance
• Paid maternity and parental leave
• Award-winning 401(k) (6% matching plus 3.5% annually)
• Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
• Flexible schedules and time off (PTO and holidays)
• Onsite gyms and wellness programs
• Extensive relocation packages (outside a 50 mile radius)

Additional Details
Directive 206.2 - Employment with Triad requires a favorable decision by NNSA indicating employee is suitable under NNSA Supplemental Directive 206.2. Please note that this requirement applies only to citizens of the United States. Foreign nationals are subject to a similar requirement under DOE Order 142.3A.
Clearance: Q(Position will be cleared to this level). Selected applicants will be subject to a background investigation conducted by or on behalf of the Federal Government, and must meet eligibility requirements* for access to classified matter. This position requires a Q clearance. and obtaining such clearance requires US Citizenship except in extremely rare circumstances. Dependent upon the position, additional authorization to access classified information may be required, which may or may not be available to dual citizens. Receipt of a Q clearance and additional access authorization ultimately is a decision of the Federal Government and not of Triad.
*Eligibility requirements: To obtain a clearance, an individual must be at least 18 years of age; U.S. citizenship is required except in very limited circumstances. See DOE Order 472.2 for additional information.

HRP: This position is subject to the requirements of the DOE Human Reliability Program as specified in 10 Code of Federal Regulation, Part 712, §712.11. These requirements include on going drug and alcohol testing, as well as periodic medical and psychological evaluations.
New-Employment Drug Test: The Laboratory requires successful applicants to complete a new-employment drug test and maintains a substance abuse policy that includes random drug testing. Although New Mexico and other states have legalized the use of marijuana, use and possession of marijuana remain illegal under federal law. A positive drug test for marijuana will result in termination of employment, even if the use was pre-offer.

Regular position: Term status Laboratory employees applying for regular-status positions are converted to regular status.
Internal Applicants: Regular appointment employees who have served the required period of continuous service in their current position are eligible to apply for posted jobs throughout the Laboratory. If an employee has not served the required period of continuous service, they may only apply for Laboratory jobs with the documented approval of their Division Leader. Please refer to Policy Policy P701 for applicant eligibility requirements.
Incentive Compensation Program: Position is eligible to participate in the Triad Incentive Compensation Program. You must be in an eligible position for a minimum of 3 months, before July 1st and remain in an eligible position as of the end of the fiscal year, September 30th. The annual distribution is prorated based on the number of months in the eligible position.
Equal Opportunity: Los Alamos National Laboratory is an equal opportunity employer and supports a diverse and inclusive workforce. All employment practices are based on qualification and merit, without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status or spousal affiliation, physical or mental disability, medical conditions, pregnancy, status as a protected veteran, genetic information, or citizenship within the limits imposed by federal laws and regulations. The Laboratory is also committed to making our workplace accessible to individuals with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations, upon request, for individuals to participate in the application and hiring process. To request such an accommodation, please send an email to applyhelp@lanl.gov or call 1-505-665-4444 option 1.