Advanced Manufacturing and Automation, Group Manager

People Development and Culture

• Recruit, develop, mentor, and retain a high-caliber technical staff spanning materials, manufacturing and process engineering, robotics, sensing, and controls disciplines.
• Identify and grow the next generation of technical leaders within the group.
• Reinforce the division's operating culture, values, and norms around scientific rigor, collaboration, psychological safety, inclusion, and accountability at the group level.
• Create an environment where researchers are supported, developed, and enabled to do their best work.
• Manage performance, allocate staff and resources across the group's project portfolio, and make sound personnel and investment decisions.
• Foster a strong safety culture and ensure all group work — including work in radiological, secure, and other high-consequence environments — is planned and executed safely and in full compliance with environmental, safety, health, quality, and security requirements.

Science and Infrastructure

• Work with the ESE Division Director to translate division and SRNL strategic priorities into the group's technical portfolio and resource allocation.
• Steward the quality, rigor, and reputation of the group's work across its core domains — additive and advanced manufacturing methods, process–structure–property research, custom experimental equipment, and robotic and adaptive processing systems for harsh or complex environments.
• Serve as a credible technical voice to sponsors, peers, and the external research community.
• Work with Advanced Engineering and other SRNL organizations to build a connected pathway from scientific discovery and early experimentation through prototype development, technology maturation, and mission application, so research outcomes convert into deployed, mission-ready capability.
• Identify high-value manufacturing and automation opportunities that align with DOE mission needs, SRNL strategic priorities, and the group's distinctive capabilities.
• Bring those opportunities forward to inform division and directorate strategy.
• Partner directly with groups across SRNL to ensure the group's manufacturing, robotics, and automation expertise is embedded in the materials, fuel cycle, and computational work it depends on and supports.

External Partnership and Ecosystem Development

• Cultivate and steward strategic partnerships outside the Department of Energy — industry engagement, university collaborations, and national laboratory partnerships — that strengthen the group's technical capabilities and expand its funding base and impact.
• Lead and mentor staff in building and deepening these external relationships.
• Position the group as a credible, trusted manufacturing and automation partner to industry and academia.
• Advance SRNL's standing and visibility in advanced manufacturing and intelligent automation through publications, presentations, professional leadership, and strategic external relationships.
• Support the Division Director and Directorate in engaging DOE program offices relevant to the group's domains, and translate those relationships into a healthy, diversified project portfolio.

Operational Excellence and Business Performance

• Manage the group's budget, financial performance, and equipment and infrastructure needs across its distributed set of research environments.
• Ensure delivery of high-quality work products on scope, on schedule, and on budget.
• Establish group-level metrics, reporting cadences, and accountability structures.
• Track and communicate progress to the Division Director.
• Work within the SRNL matrix structure to ensure alignment between group capabilities and program priorities; surface challenges and opportunities that should inform division and directorate strategic planning.