Section Head, Electron-Ion Collider Technical Division

About the role

The Technical Division serves as the Fundamental Interactions and Particles Directorate (FIP) Directorate's primary engineering, technical, infrastructure, and project-delivery organization. The Division is responsible for the engineering, design, procurement, fabrication, installation, testing, commissioning support, modernization, and lifecycle management of EIC accelerator systems supporting EIC Project execution, commissioning, and long-term operations. The Division also provides matrixed engineering, infrastructure, and technical support across the Directorate and supports the maintenance, repair, and service life extension of Hadron accelerator systems operated by the Accelerator Division.

The Technical Division consists of more than 300 engineering, design, technical, and support personnel organized into six sections; each led by a Section Head. Section Heads report to and support the Division Director and provide leadership, management, and technical direction for their section.

Responsibilities

• Implement strategic plans and lead continuous improvement initiatives to successfully design, construct, commission, operate, maintain and modernize the EIC accelerator complex.
• Develop, maintain, and improve assigned organizational capabilities, staffing, and infrastructure required to support Division objectives.
• Work with HR to develop workforce, succession, recruitment, and employee development plans that build long-term organizational capability.
• Establish performance expectations and hold Group Leaders accountable for achieving technical, schedule, safety, and workforce objectives.
• Develop, manage, and execute Section operating budgets and align staffing, resources, and investments with Division and Project priorities.
• Allocate engineering, technical, and project resources to support Division priorities and project commitments.
• Manage matrixed engineering and technical resources supporting multiple projects, operational programs, maintenance activities, and modernization efforts.
• Ensure supervisors and staff possess the qualifications, skills, experience, and resources required to safely execute assigned work.
• Lead multidisciplinary engineering and technical teams to achieve Section objectives through collaboration, accountability, and effective decision-making.
• Provide technical stewardship for assigned systems throughout design, fabrication, installation, commissioning, operation, modernization, and lifecycle management.
• Ensure assigned technical work complies with engineering standards, configuration management, quality assurance, and conduct of operations requirements.
• Ensure assigned systems are designed, delivered, documented, tested, and supported to enable efficient commissioning and long-term operations.
• Promote engineering excellence, innovation, reliability, maintainability, and continuous improvement within assigned technical areas.
• Ensure effective collaboration with EIC Project Management Team, FIP divisions and programs, and operational organizations to deliver assigned technical scope.
• Manage the development and execution of assigned technical scope, system designs, execution plans, schedules, costs, and technical baselines.
• Lead execution and delivery of assigned Level 3 WBS systems and components while achieving technical, cost, schedule, and performance objectives.
• Manage technical risks, monitor performance metrics, identify variances, and implement corrective actions.
• Maintain a safe work environment through effective safety planning, documented work processes, and comprehensive safety reviews.
• Ensure assigned engineering and technical activities comply with Laboratory, DOE, regulatory, quality assurance, and configuration management requirements.
• Maintain required compliance processes and support implementation of new institutional requirements.
• Represent assigned technical organizations during project meetings, technical reviews, vendor interactions, collaborations, and DOE reviews.
• Communicate technical, programmatic, organizational, and project issues through executive summaries, presentations, reports, and recommendations.
• Lead technical reviews, project reviews, DOE reviews, and technical collaborations supporting assigned programs.
• Promote value engineering, collaboration, accountability, innovation, and a high-performing organizational culture.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Physics, or related technical/science discipline.
• 10 or more years of progressively responsible technical experience in a scientific, national laboratory, aerospace, defense, manufacturing, or other large technical enterprise, including at least 6 years of demonstrated leadership/management experience.
• Significant experience in the engineering or scientific development relevant to the Section Head position applied for, such as Beam Instrumentation & Controls, Infrastructure Systems, Magnet Systems (Normal and/or Superconducting), Mechanical Systems, Power Supply Systems, or Radio Frequency (RF).
• Experience managing technical scope, budgets, schedules, resources, and personnel for complex engineering or scientific programs.
• Experience collaborating with scientists, engineers, and technicians to overcome complex and diverse technical challenges and install systems and components.
• Experience in management, design, procurement, fabrication, installation, commissioning, operation, maintenance, and modernization of particle accelerator systems or other large scientific facilities.
• Demonstrated success leading engineering, scientific, and technical teams and achieving organizational objectives through collaboration, staff development, effective decision-making, and resolution of complex technical and operational challenges.
• Demonstrated ability to build and lead high-performing teams through talent development, succession planning, performance management, and accountability.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with leaders, project managers, operational organizations, vendors, collaborators, and external stakeholders.
• Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences and prepare technical reports, presentations, and recommendations.
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering an open, collaborative, safe and high-performing workplace culture.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Engineering, Physics or related discipline.
• Familiarity with DOE Order 413.3 requirements, project governance, earned value management systems, risk management, configuration management, and technical baseline control.
• Experience in the engineering or scientific development of RF, Controls, Beam Instrumentation, Mechanical, Magnet, and Electrical components, and/or Vacuum systems.
• Project management experience, PMP certification, and/or formal training.

Skills

• Ability to travel domestically and internationally, as required.
• This is an on-site position.

Benefits

Brookhaven National Laboratory is committed to providing fair, equitable and competitive compensation. The full salary range for this position is $184,400 - $306,100 / year. Salary offers will be commensurate with the final candidate’s qualification, education and experience and considered with the internal peer group.

Brookhaven National Laboratory is committed to employee success and we believe that a comprehensive employee benefits program is an important and meaningful part of the compensation employees receive. Review more information at BNL | Benefits Program.

Other Information

• Ability to travel domestically and internationally, as required.
• This is an on-site position.

Brookhaven National Laboratory Commitment

Brookhaven National Laboratory is committed to employee success and we believe that a comprehensive employee benefits program is an important and meaningful part of the compensation employees receive. Review more information at BNL | Benefits Program.

About Us

Brookhaven National Laboratory (www.bnl.gov) delivers discovery science and transformative technology to power and secure the nation’s future. Brookhaven Lab is a multidisciplinary laboratory with seven Nobel Prize-winning discoveries, 37 R&D 100 Awards, and more than 70 years of pioneering research. The Lab is primarily supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science. Brookhaven Science Associates (BSA) operates and manages the Laboratory for DOE. BSA is a partnership between Battelle and The Research Foundation for the State University of New York on behalf of Stony Brook University. BSA salutes the contributions of its employees and recognizes the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion in creating a vibrant and inclusive workplace.