Capability Delivery Project-Program Director (Project-Program Director 6)

About the role

The Weapons Infrastructure Program Office (WIPO) seeks an exceptional senior leader to serve as the Capability Delivery Project-Program Director. This position provides strategic leadership for managing the past and future components of WIPO's capability portfolio, playing a critical role in ensuring the Laboratory's infrastructure capabilities meet weapons program needs.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Program Leadership: Provide leadership, vision, strategic and tactical planning, and overall direction for execution of large, complex, technically challenging portfolios requiring multidisciplinary integration across multiple Laboratory organizations, as well as serving as a core member of the WIPO leadership team;
• Portfolio Integration: Serve as a critical contributor to WIPO's portfolio integration and analysis efforts, ensuring alignment between infrastructure capabilities and weapons program requirements;
• Lifecycle Management: Lead and manage the Capability Delivery program element responsible for infrastructure capabilities across all phases of the lifecycle, from Mission Need through Disposition & Demolition, excluding Transition to Operations, Operations & Maintenance, and Transition to Disposition;
• Cross-Program Coordination: Coordinate closely with other WIPO Program Directors (Operations & Maintenance, Transition to Operations & Disposition, and Analytics & Decision Support) to ensure delivered tools and capabilities meet WIPO's integrated needs;
• Execution Delivery: Apply advanced, expert-level knowledge to ensure that capabilities are delivered in accordance with their agreed-upon scope, schedule, budget, and risk envelopes, and in accordance with the principles of Integrated Safety Management and Integrated Work Management;
• Risk and Change Management: Implement formal and effective risk management and change control to manage scope, schedule, budget, and risk through project lifecycles;
• Project Oversight and Assurance: Establish, staff, and oversee a Project Assurance Group or Groups to monitor major project performance through their entire lifecycles, advise project management on opportunities for improvement and best practices, and advise WIPO on portfolio performance and needs;
• Personnel Leadership: Manage all aspects of personnel management including headcount management, budgeting, directing assignments, hiring, onboarding, performance management, staff development, and team recognition;
• Reporting and Communications: Establish reporting and documentation requirements with executive-level internal and external customers to communicate issues to Laboratory executive management and customers.

Requirements

• Expert-level knowledge of and demonstrated experience in all aspects of project management of technical or operational work, including defining work scope, schedules, budgets, priorities, and performance milestones; developing cost, scope, and schedule baselines; reporting cost and schedule variance; and managing change control and risk.
• Demonstrated experience in successfully developing, planning, and managing technically complex and multidisciplinary programs/projects in accordance with and providing guidance for Laboratory policies.
• Expert-level knowledge of and demonstrated experience in partnering, implementing, and providing guidance for governmental regulations related to technical or operational work of assigned portfolios, particularly involving DOE Order 413.3B.
• Demonstrated experience in management, supervision, and development of assigned employees in a respectful and inclusive work environment.
• Demonstrated experience in developing and nurturing effective executive-level external and internal customer relationships, building trust, gaining consensus, and resolving conflicts.
• Demonstrated excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to obtain a DOE Q clearance.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a bachelor's degree in a technical discipline and at least fifteen years relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. An advanced degree and Project Management Institute certification are preferred.
• Consultative-level knowledge of and demonstrated experience in all aspects of project management of technical or operational work, including defining work scope, schedules, budgets, priorities, and performance milestones; developing cost, scope, and schedule baselines; reporting cost and schedule variance; and managing change control and risk.
• Consultative-level knowledge of and demonstrated experience in partnering, implementing, and providing guidance for governmental regulations related to technical or operational work of assigned portfolios, particularly involving DOE Order 413.3B.
• Expert-level knowledge of and demonstrated experience in the LANL weapons program.
• An active DOE Q clearance.

Skills

• Expert-level knowledge of and demonstrated experience in all aspects of project management of technical or operational work, including defining work scope, schedules, budgets, priorities, and performance milestones; developing cost, scope, and schedule baselines; reporting cost and schedule variance; and managing change control and risk.
• Expert-level knowledge of and demonstrated experience in partnering, implementing, and providing guidance for governmental regulations related to technical or operational work of assigned portfolios, particularly involving DOE Order 413.3B.
• Expert-level knowledge of and demonstrated experience in the LANL weapons program.

Benefits

Includes PPO or High Deductible medical insurance with the same large nationwide network, dental and vision insurance, free basic life and disability insurance, paid childbirth 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, and extensive relocation packages (outside a 50 mile radius).

Pay

$201,000 - $368,100

Schedule

Onsite in Los Alamos, NM