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W80-5 Engineering Group Leader - Active Security Clearance Required

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Livermore, CA · 1 mo ago
HybridEngineering$227k–$346k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Actually we need to use headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must include only sections that have real specific content. We need to parse the posting. Company Description: "Join us and make YOUR mark on the World! Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has turned bold ideas into world-changing impact advancing science and technology to strengthen U.S. security and promote global stability. Our mission spans four critical national security areas nuclear deterrence, threat preparedness, energy security, and multi-domain defense empowering teams to take on the toughest challenges of today and tomorrow. With a culture built on innovation and operational excellence, LLNL is a place where your expertise can make a real impact." That's company description; could be "About the role"? Actually "About the role" is for role description; but we have "Job Description". We can treat "About the role" as a heading for the job description summary. The posting includes "Job Description" with details. We'll put that under

About the role

maybe. Or we could use "About the role" for the company description? The instruction: use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can choose which sections appear. We need to include Responsibilities: list of duties. The posting includes "In this role you will" bullet list (actually sentences). Also "Additional Job Responsibilities, At The SEL.5 Level". So we can combine responsibilities. Requirements: maybe qualifications required. Qualifications: required qualifications. Skills: maybe expertise etc. Benefits: includes "Included in 2026 Best Places to Work by Glassdoor! Flexible Benefits Package 401(k) Relocation Assistance Education Reimbursement Program Flexible schedules (*depending on project needs)". Also maybe other benefits. Pay: includes Pay Range details. Schedule: includes hybrid schedule, flexibility to work from home one or more days per week. We must not include boilerplate like EEO, scam warning, etc. We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep details like specific responsibilities sentences, qualifications sentences, etc. We must not repeat job title as heading. Do not put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. We must output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences. Let's extract content. Company Description: Could be placed under About the role? Actually About the role could be a brief summary of the role. The posting includes "Job Description" with opening paragraph: "We have an opening for a W80-5 Engineering Group Leader with responsibility for leading a group of professional and technical personnel in the execution of the W80-5 warhead development program. Your team will provide a combination of engineering design, project management, certification, qualification, and support to production agencies for the W80-5 nuclear warhead. This position is in the Defense Technologies Engineering Division (DTED), supporting the Weapon Technologies and Engineering (WTE) Program. Depending on your assignment, this position may offer a hybrid schedule, blending in-person and virtual presence. You may have the flexibility to work from home one or more days per week. This position will be filled at either level based on knowledge and related experience as assessed by the hiring team. Additional job responsibilities (outlined below) will be assigned if hired at the higher level." That's a good summary for About the role. Then Responsibilities: list from "In this role you will" bullet points (actually sentences separated by periods). Also "Additional Job Responsibilities, At The SEL.5 Level". We'll combine. Responsibilities list items: - Supervise, provide technical and administrative direction, guidance, support, mentoring, coaching, and promote teamwork for group personnel. - Participate in performance reviews, ranking, and salary management processes. - Recruit, hire, and onboard new staff as needed to meet programmatic staffing needs for the W80-5. - Provide technical, safety, and security leadership to Group personnel and activities and collaborate with project principals and group personnel in defining employee work assignments. - Foster and uphold the mission, vision, and values of DTED and LLNL through leadership of W80-5 personnel. - Lead and engage in thoughtful engineering design reviews to ensure the technical excellence of our designs and our workforce. - Monitor performance required to meet programmatic milestones and deliverables and lead corrective actions where necessary. - Perform other duties as assigned. Additional Job Responsibilities, At The SEL.5 Level: - Influence strategic technical decisions made by senior management and external stakeholders based on nuclear weapon design expertise. - Mentor staff across the organization, including other mentors. - Advise across the Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE) as an expert in weapon design engineering, 6.X lifecycle processes, Production Agencies (PAs), Product Realization Teams (PRTs), and product realization, certification, and qualification work. - Serve as an organizational spokesperson on behalf of Laboratory management and/or peers in the NSE representing the Laboratory in NEP design and project engineering. We'll put these as
  • . Requirements: maybe the qualifications required? The posting has "Qualifications" section with required qualifications: active DOE Q-level clearance or active Top Secret clearance; Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field, or equivalent level of education and related experience; Significant experience with design engineering, NSE product realization processes and stakeholders, certification, and qualification work; Subject matter knowledge of nuclear warhead engineering, systems, and design; Expertise with project management tools and techniques, including work planning, scheduling, cost estimating, analyzing, and managing scope and budgets; Expert communication, facilitation, negotiation, and collaboration skills, necessary to present to, explain to, and advise senior management and/or external sponsors; Ability to promote and maintain productive relationships across directorates, with other laboratories and NSE partner sites, and with personnel from external entities; Effective leadership, interpersonal, organizational, and supervisory skills to lead personnel, write performance appraisals, and actively participate in ranking and hiring activities. Also Additional Qualifications At The SEL.5 Level: Accomplished record in weapon design and product realization; Expert communication, facilitation, and collaboration skills necessary to effectively present, explain, influence, and advise senior management and external sponsors; Extensive experience and expert weapon design engineering knowledge to foster advancements that may have impact beyond the Laboratory and the Nuclear Security Enterprise. Qualifications We Desire: Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering; Broad knowledge of Laboratory policies and practices and applicable NNSA orders. We could separate Requirements (mandatory) and Qualifications (desired). But the instruction says we can have sections like Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We need to decide what to put where. We could treat "Qualifications" as required qualifications, and "Skills" as desired or expertise. But we have both required and desired qualifications. Might combine them under Qualifications. But we also have "Skills" maybe for communication, leadership etc. However we already have those in qualifications. Given we need to avoid thin sections, we could combine Requirements and Qualifications into one Qualifications section, and maybe Skills not needed. But we need to follow instruction: use headings only when posting has real specific content. If we don't have distinct Skills content separate, we can omit Skills. We have Pay and Schedule sections with specific content. Benefits: we have "Included in 2026 Best Places to Work by Glassdoor! Flexible Benefits Package 401(k) Relocation Assistance Education Reimbursement Program Flexible schedules (*depending on project needs)". That's benefits. We also have "Why Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory?" with bullet points: Included in 2026 Best Places to Work by Glassdoor! Flexible Benefits Package 401(k) Relocation Assistance Education Reimbursement Program Flexible schedules (*depending on project needs) Our values - visit https://... That's benefits. We'll put Benefits section with those items as list. Pay: we have Pay Range details: "$227,430 - $346,140 Annually $227,430 - $288,396 Annually for the SEL.4 level $272,970 - $346,140 Annually for the SEL.5 level This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting; pay will not be below any applicable local minimum wage. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs." We'll keep that as paragraph. Schedule: we have hybrid schedule, flexibility to work from home one or more days per week. Also maybe "Depending on your assignment, this position may offer a hybrid schedule, blending in-person and virtual presence. You may have the flexibility to work from home one or more days per week." That's schedule. We'll put Schedule section with that as paragraph. Now we need to output HTML fragment with headings

    and content. Structure:

    About the role

    ... (the job description summary)

    Responsibilities

    • ...
    • ...

    Qualifications

    ... (required qualifications)

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      • each qualification. Better to use
          for list of qualifications. The instruction: Use
          • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and

            for prose. So qualifications list should be

            • . Similarly responsibilities list
              • . Benefits list
                • . For prose like About the role, Pay, Schedule we use

                  . Thus: - About the role: prose

                  . - Responsibilities:

                  • . - Qualifications:
                    • (including required and desired). - Benefits:
                      • . - Pay:

                        . - Schedule:

                        . We must not include sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual content. Now extract exact text. About the role prose: We'll take the opening paragraph from Job Description: "We have an opening for a W80-5 Engineering Group Leader with responsibility for leading a group of professional and technical personnel in the execution of the W80-5 warhead development program. Your team will provide a combination of engineering design, project management, certification, qualification, and support to production agencies for the W80-5 nuclear warhead. This position is in the Defense Technologies Engineering Division (DTED), supporting the Weapon Technologies and Engineering (WTE) Program. Depending on your assignment, this position may offer a hybrid schedule, blending in-person and virtual presence. You may have the flexibility to work from home one or more days per week. This position will be filled at either level based on knowledge and related experience as assessed by the hiring team. Additional job responsibilities (outlined below) will be assigned if hired at the higher level." We should keep that exactly. Now Responsibilities list items: we need to capture each sentence as separate

                      • . Ensure we keep punctuation. List from "In this role you will": 1. Supervise, provide technical and administrative direction, guidance, support, mentoring, coaching, and promote teamwork for group personnel. 2. Participate in performance reviews, ranking, and salary management processes. 3. Recruit, hire, and onboard new staff as needed to meet programmatic staffing needs for the W80-5. 4. Provide technical, safety, and security leadership to Group personnel and activities and collaborate with project principals and group personnel in defining employee work assignments. 5

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