Project Manager 4

At PNNL, our core capabilities are divided among major departments called Directorates, each focused on a specific area of scientific research or function. The Energy and Environment Directorate delivers science and technology solutions for the nation’s energy and environmental challenges, supporting the Department of Energy (DOE) in modernizing the power grid, advancing renewable energy and efficiency technologies, and addressing complex issues in nuclear science and environmental management.

The Energy Processes and Materials Division, part of the Energy and Environment Directorate, creates real-world solutions supporting DOE’s goals for national energy security. We deliver technologies connecting fundamental science to applications in energy storage, advanced materials manufacturing, applied catalysis, advanced separations, biomass conversions, carbon capture and utilization, and hydrogen production and storage. Our systems perspective includes discovery, technology development, scale-up, and considerations for economic, regulatory, and market acceptance necessary for successful commercialization.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control, and completion of specific projects to ensure alignment with organizational strategy, commitments, and goals.
• Acquire resources and coordinate efforts of team members and third-party resources to deliver projects according to plan.
• Define project objectives and oversee quality control throughout the project lifecycle.
• Lead integrated program execution across a portfolio of hydrothermal processing and hydrothermal liquefaction projects with an applied research, scale-up, and deployment focus.
• Work with principal investigators and technical leads to translate technical objectives into executable project plans, milestones, schedules, resource needs, decision points, and deliverables.
• Integrate scope, schedule, budget, risk, resources, and dependencies across multiple projects and identify issues that could affect overall program performance.
• Monitor program performance, identify emerging technical and execution risks, and lead corrective actions and recovery planning when projects deviate from expectations.
• Coordinate activities across multidisciplinary project teams, laboratory organizations, subcontractors, sponsors, and multiple industrial partners.
• Establish effective program-management practices for planning, reporting, risk management, decision tracking, change management, and accountability.
• Serve as a key program-management interface with sponsor representatives and external partners, communicating priorities, progress, risks, decisions, and upcoming needs.
• Manage cross-project dependencies involving personnel, equipment, facilities, technical capabilities, partner inputs, and sequencing of technical work.
• Facilitate resolution of technical, organizational, contractual, and resource issues that impede program execution.
• Provide project-management leadership, coaching, and guidance to project managers and technical staff across the program.
• Support program planning, proposal development, and future applied research and industrial partnership opportunities.
• Promote continuous improvement in program execution and project-management processes.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS/BA and 11+ years of relevant project management experience, OR
• MS/MA or higher and 9+ years of relevant project management experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Degree in chemical engineering with strong project management expertise.
• Direct experience with hydrothermal liquefaction and a strong understanding of the technical and operational challenges associated with HTL systems.
• Demonstrated experience managing large, complex, technically challenging research, engineering, demonstration, or technology-development projects.
• Experience managing integrated scope, schedule, budget, risk, resources, dependencies, and deliverables across multiple concurrent projects.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with principal investigators and technical experts while providing independent leadership for project and program execution.
• Experience managing projects or programs involving industrial partners, subcontractors, technology developers, or other external collaborators.
• Demonstrated ability to identify execution risks early, resolve conflicts, manage changing priorities, and develop practical recovery strategies.
• Strong communication and relationship-management skills, including experience interacting with senior sponsors, technical leaders, organizational leadership, and external stakeholders.
• PMP certification or demonstrated equivalent knowledge of disciplined project-management principles and practices.
• Experience mentoring project managers or improving project- and program-management practices within a technical organization.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families.
• Robust telehealth care options and several mental health benefits.
• Free wellness coaching and health savings account (HSA) and flexible spending accounts (FSA).
• Basic life insurance and disability insurance.
• Employee assistance program and business travel insurance.
• Tuition assistance, relocation, backup childcare, legal benefits, and supplemental parental bonding leave.
• Surrogacy and adoption assistance, and fertility support.
• Company-funded pension plan and 401(k) savings plan with company match.
• Up to 120 vacation hours per year and ten paid holidays per year.

All benefits are dependent upon eligibility. Research Associates excluded.