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About the Role

Los Alamos National Laboratory is seeking an entry-level Superintendent to oversee sophisticated electrical and mechanical facilities and systems. As a Logistics Superintendent, you will join a highly creative, diverse, and efficient team tackling complex challenges in the Laboratory’s facilities. This role involves driving continuous improvement, ensuring high-quality work on schedule, and maximizing mission-critical facilities capabilities while minimizing costs.

You will collaborate closely with Facilities Management, Engineering, Planning, Project Management, Material Procurement, and Union Craft personnel to perform facility preventative maintenance, corrective maintenance, and modification work. Depending on the assignment, you may be responsible for work at a Department of Energy Non-Nuclear Facility. Safety and security compliance are integral to this role, including stopping work if conditions are unsafe or compromise security.

Responsibilities

• Execute maintenance work activities, including systems work control, facility control systems, upgrades, and renovations.
• Interpret physical, mechanical, and electrical documents, specifications, drawings, and schematics.
• Direct work and apply understanding of collective bargaining agreements.
• Identify problem areas, investigate solutions, and determine actions to be performed.
• Utilize a computerized work management system to track job activities.
• Maintain a basic understanding of work hazards, safety practices, operating configurations, and lock-out/tag-out policies.
• Demonstrate multitasking, customer service, and conflict management skills.
• Maintain required safety and security training and ensure compliance in all tasks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of two years of experience in maintenance and/or construction, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Five years of relevant experience.

Qualifications

• Experience directing work and understanding of collective union bargaining agreements.
• Working knowledge or experience in an operating hazardous facility.
• Knowledge of environmental laws, regulations, and requirements.
• Skill in preparing and presenting oral and written reports.

Work Environment

• Outdoors and indoors.
• Overtime or irregular schedule, including shift work and weekends.
• Hot (90–100°F) and dry environments.
• Operation of motor vehicles.
• Work near electrical power supplies, sources of ionizing radiation, vibrating equipment/machinery, and machinery with moving parts.
• Required safety gear: head protection, safety glasses, hearing protection, gloves, and safety shoes.

Essential Job Functions

• Color discrimination, peripheral vision, depth perception, binocular vision, and reading vision.
• Ability to speak, discriminate speech, and hear in a normal range (500–3000 Hz), including high-pitched sounds.
• Ability to smell.
• Physical tasks: sitting, standing, walking, climbing stairs/ladders, bending, stooping, crouching, kneeling, crawling, twisting, balancing, reaching (overhead, horizontally, down), gripping, pressing, pushing, pulling, typing, and fine motor control.
• Use of both hands, arms, legs, and feet.
• Lifting and carrying 20–30 pounds.

Schedule

This position may require 24/7 coverage, including shift or weekend work. Employees may be eligible for shift differential pay at the discretion of their manager.

Benefits

• PPO or High Deductible medical insurance with a large nationwide network.
• Dental and vision insurance.
• Free basic life and disability insurance.
• Paid childbirth and parental leave.
• Award-winning 401(k) with 6% matching plus 3.5% annual contribution.
• Learning opportunities and tuition assistance.
• Flexible schedules and paid time off (PTO and holidays).
• Onsite gyms and wellness programs.
• Extensive relocation packages (for candidates outside a 50-mile radius).

Location

The position is onsite in Los Alamos, NM. Work locations are at the discretion of management.

Los Alamos National Laboratory is a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science for national security, located in beautiful northern New Mexico.

Security & Citizenship

This position requires a Q clearance, which typically requires U.S. citizenship. Selected applicants will undergo a background investigation conducted by the Federal Government. Foreign nationals may be subject to similar requirements under DOE Order 142.3A. Dual citizens may face additional restrictions.

Applicants must be at least 18 years old. A new-employment drug test is required, and the Laboratory maintains a substance abuse policy, including random drug testing. Federal law prohibits marijuana use, even if legalized by state law.

Due to federal restrictions, citizens of the People’s Republic of China (including Hong Kong and Macau), the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), and the Russian Federation who are not Lawful Permanent Residents are prohibited from accessing facilities supporting national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production.