First Line Manager (Manufacturing Manager 3)

This position is open to all external candidates. Current LANL employees within NPO will be considered. Current LANL employees outside of NPO will not be considered.

About the role

The Pit Technologies (PT) Division is a key component of the Associate Laboratory Directorate for Weapons Production (ALDWP) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). This division is at the forefront of manufacturing operations at Technical Area 55 (TA-55), a state-of-the-art facility dedicated to plutonium research and pit production. The PT Division is currently in growth mode in terms of scope, budget, and personnel, and is currently looking to fill out the management chain in support of the Division's vision.

Responsibilities

• Planning, organizing, and defining strategic objectives.
• Establishing scope, schedule, and budget through work package development, resource and performance management and ensuring worker qualification and authorization.
• Delivers quality products and/or services; enforces adherence to quality standards; achieves balance between the need to meet both productivity goals and quality standards.
• Ensures administrative and operating procedures are current, understood, and adhered to before releasing work.
• Working with facility operations staff to execute work safely, securely, with quality, and in compliance with nuclear facility requirements.
• Ensures direct daily oversight of work, workers and the work environment.
• Recognition as the safety responsible line manager over people, equipment, and processes.
• Ongoing communications with line management reporting on work status, deliverables and commitments.
• Directing and overseeing work performed by employees including "on the floor" supervision.
• Effective time management skills and the ability to deal effectively with changing priorities and conflicting demands.
• Effective teamwork in accomplishing objectives, including mentoring and motivating peers.
• Providing financial stewardship over budget, procurement, time and labor, travel, and property.

Requirements

• Leadership: Demonstrated record of successful technical leadership and proven ability in supervising, resolving conflicts, administering discipline, mentoring, team building, managing staff requirements, motivating employees, and developing personnel such as students and/or early career scientists and engineers.
• Knowledge and Expertise: Demonstrated experience in developing work scope, schedules, budgets, and coordinating work activities. Experience planning for and managing tactical execution of work; tracking and reporting progress. Experience performing work in a manufacturing environment and executing work in compliance with facility requirements, conduct of operations, conduct of engineering and conduct of maintenance standards.
• Accountability: Experience working with confidential or proprietary information, classified documents or sensitive information.
• Communication: Demonstrated effective written and oral communication skills as evidenced by internal and/or external interactions, seminars, briefings, presentations, and publications; effective interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to interact with all levels of personnel and customers.

Qualifications

• Minimum Job Requirements:
• Bachelor's Degree in a related field from an accredited institution and 5 years of related experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience directly related to the occupation.
• Master's degree is strongly preferred.
• DOE 426.2A: Requires a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering or related science or technology, and 4 years of nuclear experience.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in project and program management, including planning, organizing, and resource management.
• Experience with defining work unit objectives and tasks in alignment with organizational objectives, and tracking and reporting on progress.
• Experience with work package development and execution, identification of resource requirements and development of resource loaded schedules and financial stewardship.
• Experience working as a member of a multidisciplinary team of technicians, engineers, generators and professional staff.
• Experience executing work in compliance with facility requirements.
• Knowledgeable of Integrated Work Management (IWM) and integrated safety and security management (ISSM) procedures.
• Knowledgeable of nuclear high hazard facility operating requirements, safety authorization basis and/or Conduct of Operations planning and execution.
• DOE Q Clearance and HRP Certification highly desirable.

Pay

Details about pay are not specified in the job posting.

Schedule

The work schedule for this position is 7 days per week. This position may require 7-day coverage and therefore may require working a shift schedule that includes weekends. Individuals typically work 4 days per week, 10 hours per day.

Benefits

Details about benefits are not specified in the job posting.