Deputy Group Leader (Operations Manager 3)

About the role

The Logistics Division delivers critical, customer-focused services powered by a highly skilled craft workforce that keeps operations running across the Lab. Our mission is twofold: to provide the labor and resources needed to build and sustain essential infrastructure, and to develop and support the workforce behind it. We take pride in work that impacts our community, the nation, and beyond-serving as the team that gets the job done when it matters most.

Responsibilities

• Partners with internal and external customers, including Maintenance (MSS) and Construction (ALDICP), to deliver qualified craft resources, develop schedules, and ensure consistent supervision and standards.
• Oversight of LOG-CS operations while balancing logistics and Craft business functions to support work execution across FODs and related facilities.
• Facilitate a full customer service model that provides centralized coordination, management, and tracking of specific area needs to ensure the success of the Logistics and Craft deployment mission.
• Ensure schedules and performance standards are realistically set and attained while upholding high standards of professionalism.

Requirements

• Experience in maintenance and construction within nuclear or high-hazard facilities.
• Demonstrated thorough knowledge of critical core preventative maintenance functions and construction project management.
• Demonstrated experience and ability to interpret civil, mechanical, and electrical drawings, schematics, and blueprints.
• Demonstrated understanding of government regulations affecting facility maintenance and management including but not limited to general OSHA safety practices in relation to safety policies, and facilities policies and procedures.
• In-depth knowledge of work hazards, operating configurations, and lockout/tagout procedures.
• Must be able to prepare and present safety and technical briefings to large groups of craft employees.
• Management, supervision, human resources, and labor relations administration of assigned employees (both Craft and Non-Craft in a deployed or matrixed organization).
• Expertise in labor relations, including Collective Bargaining Agreements and jurisdictional settlements.
• Proven ability to work across multiple business units to support materials, PPE, and resource needs.
• Skilled in influencing, negotiating, and gaining stakeholder buy-in in sensitive situations.
• Experience conducting critiques, root cause analysis, and applying lessons learned.
• Experience developing and executing organizational strategies and objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution and 5 years related experience; or, an equivalent combination of education and experience directly related to the occupation.

Skills

• Strong knowledge of logistics business processes, LANL policies, and Collective Bargaining Agreements.
• Significant experience working with craft or union workforces.
• Technical direction, coordination personnel, and driving continuous improvement.
• Providing technical direction, coordinating personnel, and driving continuous improvement.
• Providing technical direction, coordinating personnel, and driving continuous improvement.

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), on-site gyms and wellness programs, and extensive relocation packages (outside a 50 mile radius).

Pay

$128,000 - $215,900

Schedule

Onsite in Los Alamos, NM

Benefits

Includes PTO, holidays, and other benefits as described above.