Science, Labs, and Operations Discipline Manager
Barrios Technology · Houston, TX · 3 wk ago
ManagementFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections only if real content. No job title heading. Use for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to parse content.
The posting includes:
- Intro about Barrios (company description) – could be "About the role"? Actually "About the role" is typical heading for description of role. The intro includes company description and excitement. We'll put that under
. The text after each heading is a run-on sentence with periods separating items. We need to split into list items preserving meaning. Let's parse.
Discipline Vision:
"Implements strategic direction established by the Services Director and translates organizational objectives into actionable workforce and operational plans.Anticipates future workforce needs and works with Group Supervisors and Leads to ensure the department develops the capabilities and talent necessary to support future business opportunities."
Two sentences. Could be two list items.
Workforce Leadership:
"Provides leadership, coaching, and performance management for employees and subordinate leaders across the department.Establishes clear performance expectations, supports career development, and ensures employees receive the guidance and opportunities needed to grow professionally.Creates an environment that encourages technical excellence, engagement, accountability, collaboration, and continuous development.Works closely with the Service Delivery Manager and HR recruiter to identify hiring requirements, define critical skill needs, and attract highly qualified talent.Develops strategies to retain key personnel and maintain organizational stability"
That's five sentences.
Department Operations:
"Ensures the Discipline successfully supports all assigned programs and projects while maintaining workforce health and organizational effectiveness.Maintains awareness of current and projected workload across all groups.Maintains visibility of employee assignments, workload distribution, and staffing demands across all groupsEvaluates workforce capacity relative to customer demand and develops plans to address shortages, surpluses, or emerging skill gaps.Monitors operational performance, identifies challenges, and implements solutions that improve efficiency, responsiveness, and execution.Provides oversight of departmental staffing expenditures, workforce investments, training allocations, and operational resources.Ensures available resources are used effectively and aligned with organizational priorities.Identifies workforce and operational risks that could impact execution, employee retention, technical capability, or future growth.Develops mitigation strategies and works with leadership to address issues before they become organizational constraints."
That's many sentences; we need to split correctly. Note there is a missing period after "all groups" before "Maintains visibility". We'll treat as separate.
Let's list them:
1. Ensures the Discipline successfully supports all assigned programs and projects while maintaining workforce health and organizational effectiveness.
2. Maintains awareness of current and projected workload across all groups.
3. Maintains visibility of employee assignments, workload distribution, and staffing demands across all groups.
4. Evaluates workforce capacity relative to customer demand and develops plans to address shortages, surpluses, or emerging skill gaps.
5. Monitors operational performance, identifies challenges, and implements solutions that improve efficiency, responsiveness, and execution.
6. Provides oversight of departmental staffing expenditures, workforce investments, training allocations, and operational resources.
7. Ensures available resources are used effectively and aligned with organizational priorities.
8. Identifies workforce and operational risks that could impact execution, employee retention, technical capability, or future growth.
9. Develops mitigation strategies and works with leadership to address issues before they become organizational constraints.
Now Required Education/Experience/Skills:
"Bachelor's degree in a Science, Engineering, Operations, or related technical discipline from an accredited institution.
Minimum 8 years of progressive experience in scientific, laboratory, operations, or technical program environments, including at least 4 years of leadership or people management experience.
Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary teams supporting scientific research, laboratory operations, mission operations, testing, technical services, or related activities.
Strong understanding of laboratory operations, scientific processes, operational planning, resource management, and safety requirements.
Demonstrated customer-service mindset with a commitment to delivering high-quality technical and operational solutions that meet customer requirements and mission objectives.
Proven ability to build, lead, and develop high-performing teams while fostering technical excellence, accountability, employee engagement, and career growth.
Experience identifying workforce capability gaps and implementing training, mentoring, and development strategies to strengthen organizational competency.
Experience managing workload distribution, staffing requirements, workforce planning, and resource allocation across multiple projects or operational functions.
Collaborative leadership approach that effectively balances the priorities of multiple stakeholders, including Growth, Program Management, Technical Leadership, and Customer organizations.
Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively across all levels of the organization and tailor clear, concise messages to technical and non-technical audiences."
These are requirements; we can put under
for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to parse content.
The posting includes:
- Intro about Barrios (company description) – could be "About the role"? Actually "About the role" is typical heading for description of role. The intro includes company description and excitement. We'll put that under About the role
with paragraphs.
- Responsibilities: The role description includes many bullet-like sentences: leading and developing workforce, ensuring department possesses technical expertise, etc. Also sections: Discipline Vision, Workforce Leadership, Department Operations. Those are responsibilities. We'll extract bullet points.
- Requirements: Required Education/Experience/Skills list.
- Qualifications: Preferences list.
- Skills: maybe combine? But we have both Required and Preferences. Could treat Required as Requirements, Preferences as Qualifications. Skills maybe not separate; but we could include Skills if there is explicit skill list. There's "Strong interpersonal skills..." etc. Could be under Skills. However guidelines: use headings only when posting has real specific content. We have content for About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (education/experience/skills), Qualifications (preferences). Possibly also Skills (like strong interpersonal skills, communication). But we can incorporate those into Requirements or Qualifications. Better to follow typical sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications. No Benefits, Pay, Schedule as not mentioned.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID.
We must remove boilerplate: EEO, drug-free workplace, etc. Remove those paragraphs.
We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. Must keep all details.
We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences.
Let's extract content.
Company intro paragraph(s):
"Barrios Technology is an engineering solutions partner with more than 45 years of experience supporting NASA and the commercial space industry. We deliver innovative engineering, software, and technology integration services across NASA centers nationwide. Barrios prides itself on a people-focused culture that values creativity, diversity, professional growth, and a healthy work-life balance. We need your talent, teamwork, and energy to help us achieve great things that inspire people all over the globe. Bring creative ideas and diverse backgrounds to help us envision, shape, and deliver systems that will enable the exploration of space while benefiting people here on Earth. We are excited about what we do, and we need you on our team as we take on exciting challenges for NASA’s pursuits in deep space exploration."
That's about the role/company.
Then: "Currently there is an exciting opportunity for a Discipline Manager to join the team with Barrios, a teammate company." Could be part of About the role.
Now responsibilities: The role description after that:
"The Science, Laboratories, and Operations Discipline Manager is responsible for leading and developing the scientific, laboratory, and operations workforce, ensuring the department possesses the technical expertise, leadership, capacity, and operational effectiveness necessary to support current programs and future business growth. This role serves as the primary leader for workforce management within the Science, Laboratories, and Operations discipline and is accountable for balancing organizational needs, employee development, customer commitments, and the continued growth of scientific, laboratory, and operational capabilities across the organization. The Discipline Manager fosters technical excellence, operational rigor, and a culture of safety while ensuring the consistent application of best practices across laboratory operations, scientific investigations, mission operations, and technical support activities. This leader is responsible for developing the department's capabilities in research, laboratory management, operational readiness, mission execution, and technical services while ensuring the organization is prepared to meet evolving customer, mission, and business challenges."
Then subheadings: Discipline Vision, Workforce Leadership, Department Operations each with bullet-like sentences.
We need to turn each bullet into
Requirements
as- ... each line.
Preferences:
"Master's degree in a Science, Engineering, Operations, or related technical discipline.
Experience supporting aerospace, defense, government, research, laboratory, or mission operations programs.
Experience managing laboratory facilities, scientific investigations, testing environments, or operational control centers.
Knowledge of laboratory safety programs, operational readiness reviews, quality management systems, and regulatory compliance requirements.
Experience leading multidisciplinary teams consisting of scientists, engineers, technicians, operators, and laboratory personnel.
Experience developing operational procedures, work instructions, training programs, and process improvement initiatives.
Familiarity with risk management, mission assurance, configuration management, and technical review processes.
Experience collaborating with Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Program Management organizations to support integrated mission objectives.
Experience supporting proposal development, basis-of-estimate generation, technical solution development, and business growth initiatives.
Demonstrated experience establishing organizational processes, technical standards, workforce development programs, and operational best practices across a scientific or operational organization."
These are preferences/qualifications. We'll put under
Qualifications
. Now we need to ensure we don't include boilerplate: EEO, drug-free workplace, etc. Remove those paragraphs. Also remove "Don’t miss out on this great opportunity; for immediate consideration, apply now!" and similar. Now produce HTML. Structure:About the role
... (company intro + opportunity sentence)
Responsibilities
- ... (list items from Discipline Vision, Workforce Leadership, Department Operations) ...
- with the heading bold? But guidelines: use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can just list each duty as
- . No need for extra headings inside.
Thus we will create a flat list of responsibilities.
Now Requirements list.
Qualifications list.
No Benefits/Pay/Schedule.
Let's craft the HTML.
Be careful to escape any HTML special characters like &, <, >. The text includes apostrophes, etc. Should be fine.
We'll output:
About the role
Barrios Technology is an engineering solutions partner with more than 45 years of experience supporting NASA and the commercial space industry. We deliver innovative engineering, software, and technology integration services across NASA centers nationwide. Barrios prides itself on a people-focused culture that values creativity, diversity, professional growth, and a healthy work-life balance. We need your talent, teamwork, and energy to help us achieve great things that inspire people all over the globe. Bring creative ideas and diverse backgrounds to help us envision, shape, and deliver systems that will enable the exploration of space while benefiting people here on Earth. We are excited about what we do, and we need you on our team as we take on exciting challenges for NASA’s pursuits in deep space exploration. Currently there is an exciting opportunity for a Discipline Manager to join the team with Barrios, a teammate company.
Responsibilities
- Leading and developing the scientific, laboratory, and operations workforce, ensuring the department possesses the technical expertise, leadership, capacity, and operational effectiveness necessary to support current programs and future business growth.
- Serving as the primary leader for workforce management within the Science, Laboratories, and Operations discipline and being accountable for balancing organizational needs, employee development, customer commitments, and the continued growth of scientific, laboratory, and operational capabilities across the organization.
- Fostering technical excellence, operational rigor, and a culture of safety while ensuring the consistent application of best practices across laboratory operations, scientific investigations, mission operations, and technical support activities.
- Developing the department's capabilities in research, laboratory management, operational readiness, mission execution, and technical services while ensuring the organization is prepared to meet evolving customer, mission, and business challenges.
- Implementing strategic direction established by the Services Director and translating organizational objectives into actionable workforce and operational plans.
- Anticipating future workforce needs