Sr. Procurement Officer

At Jefferson Lab, you’ll champion cutting-edge science and operational excellence while shaping the future of discovery. Join us and make your mark – where excellence meets purpose, and great minds truly matter.

Salary Range: $101,400 - $163,000

What Your Job Will Be Like

Lead the end‑to‑end procurement of services, supplies, and equipment that enable the laboratory’s mission. This role ensures that acquisitions are strategic, timely, cost‑effective, and fully compliant with institutional, federal, and DOE requirements. The Senior Procurement Officer will cultivate strong vendor relationships, champion process improvements, and provide expert guidance to stakeholders across the lab to support high‑value, mission‑critical outcomes.

In This Job You Will

• Performs all aspects of acquisition planning and workflow activities independently and without oversight.
• Procure hardware, software, total solutions, contract labor, maintenance and services.
• Lead and conduct pre-proposal conferences, source selection/technical evaluation boards and site visits.
• Provide strategic recommendations to internal staff on procurement issues solicitation list and manually create solicitations.
• Analyze, apply, negotiate and document federal contract terms and conditions and need for special terms in accordance to the appropriate contract type.
• Use strong analysis skills and techniques to perform supplier cost/price analysis and document negotiations for all contract types.
• Understand CPSR audits and independently create/submit approval ready documentation.
  
  

Experience

• Required: 10 or more years of full-time federal procurement/contracting experience.
• Required: 9 or more years Knowledge of terms and conditions appropriate for all contract types required .
• Required: 3 or more years Knowledge and experience with government property administration.
• Required: 3 or more years Give presentation and justify decisions to leadership
• Required: 3 or more years Hardware, Software, Maintenance and license terms.
• Required: 4 or more years Understand and Interpret federal clauses, regulations and flowdowns.
  
  

Education

• Required: Bachelor's Degree
  
  

Experience And Education Exchange

Education above the minimum may be substituted for experience

Relevant experience may be substituted for education

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Proficiency in market research and analysis, ICE, CAS, and QASP.
• Understand, apply and maintain compliance with DEAR and FAR contracting regulations in agreements.
• Understand, create and provide federal reports and deliverables to Contracting Officer/Contract Manager.
• Understand use of GWACs and schedules
• Ability to analytical problem solving and critical thinking skills; ability to gather, organize, analyze and present data to appropriate sources.
• Understand selection of appropriate NAICS code for procurements.
• Use professional level of expertise in multiple areas and use of discretion and judgment in execution of duties.
• Able to manage and maintain simultaneous, transitional, and emerging priorities, and meet established deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
  
  

About Jefferson Lab

Join a community with a common purpose of solving the most challenging scientific and engineering problems of our time. The Jefferson Lab campus is located in southeastern Virginia amidst a vibrant and growing technology community.

A career at Jefferson Lab is more than a job. You will be part of “big science” and work alongside top scientists and engineers from around the world unlocking the secrets of our visible universe. Managed by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is entering an exciting period of mission growth and is seeking new team members ready to apply their skills and passion to have an impact. You could call it work, or you could call it a mission. We call it a challenge. We do things that will change the world.

Total Rewards at Jefferson Lab

Benefits

At Jefferson Lab, we believe that a comprehensive employee benefits program is an important and meaningful part of the compensation employees receive. Our benefits program includes, but is not limited to:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Care Plans
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time-off and Leave Programs (Paid Parental, vacation, holidays, and sick leave) 
• 401(k) Plan – 9% Lab Contribution; 100% vested
• Flexible Work Arrangements
  
  

(Remote & Alternate Work Schedules available) 

• Tuition Assistance, Training and Professional Development Programs 
• Live near the waterways of the Chesapeake Bay region with access to nearby beaches,
  
  

mountains, and all major metropolitan centers on the East Coast

Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (JSA) manages and operates the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab). JSA is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  

JSA is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities (unless doing so will result in an undue hardship). If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to recruiting@jlab.org or contact Human Resources by calling (757) 269-7100 and selecting option 1 between 8 am – 5 pm EST to provide the nature of your request.

Employment with JSA is conditional upon DOE approval if at any time during your employment you are participating in a Foreign Government Talent Recruitment Program or Affiliated activity. Generally, such programs/activities include any foreign-state-sponsored attempt to acquire U.S.-funded scientific research through programs run or funded by the government that target scientists, engineers, students, academics, researchers, and entrepreneurs of all nationalities working or educated in the United States. This includes positions or appointments, both domestic and foreign, titled academic, professional, or institutional appointments whether or not remuneration is received and whether full-time, part-time or voluntary.