Cleared Manager, R&D Science and Engineering, Onsite

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• Generous vacation, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*

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The Surety Engineering Group II is seeking a proactive and skilled Manager for R&D Science and Engineering. This leadership role is pivotal in directing a team of Surety System Engineers who are responsible for developing and implementing innovative strategies aimed at successful product prototyping, qualification, and realization.

On any given day, you will:

• Lead and Integrate: Guide your team as they collaborate across multiple enterprises, ensuring the seamless integration of multidisciplinary technology areas to enhance project outcomes.
• Mentor and Empower: Foster a culture of critical thinking by mentoring staff to identify, assess, and mitigate risks. You will promote the practical application of defect prevention strategies to ensure the development of safe, reliable, and robust products.
• Drive Initiatives: Influence cross-cut technology areas and contribute to corporate initiatives, such as the Common Engineering Environment Technical Quality pillar, addressing challenges from components to subsystems and entire systems.
• Collaborate Across the Labs: Work closely with peers and partners throughout Sandia National Laboratories and the broader Nuclear Security Enterprise community, including all eight sites and the NNSA, to ensure cohesive project execution.
• Engage in Team Dynamics: Be an integral part of a diverse team of ten cohesive departments, collaborating on coordinated hiring and responding swiftly to emerging technical issues. Our leadership team is committed to a prevention and service ethos, with a strong focus on staff development.

Join us in this vital role where your leadership will drive innovation and excellence in Surety Engineering.

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite

$163,700 - $278,000

*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline and eight (8) years of directly relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of directly relevant education and engineering or scientific experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform independent research and development
• Active DOE Q-level (or DOD equivalent) security clearance required to start

The ideal R&D Science and Engineering Manager candidate for Sandia National Laboratories will in addition possess the following:

• Two or more years of demonstrated leadership experience.
• A graduate degree in science or engineering (MS or Ph.D.).
• Outstanding interpersonal skills in developing trusting relationships with peers, staff, management, customers, and stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in the development and delivery of presentations, proposals, reports and documentation.

Also, for this posting we are seeking individuals with the following experience:

• Ability to obtain and maintain Sigma 14 and Sigma 15 access
• Management experience in an R&D organization and/or Nuclear Deterrence technical leadership experience.
• Leading and managing R&D engineering projects through complexity, exercising flexibility and technical discernment
• Experience and success in recruiting, hiring, mentoring and leading technical staff.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver results and effectively lead/guide multidisciplinary teams engaged in visionary, groundbreaking work.
• Influencing technical decisions and delivery without direct authority
• Set accountability, managing conflict, eliciting solutions
• The ability to build strong, trust-based teaming relationships with peers, customers, and partners with different needs and agendas
• Identifying and reducing technical risk in a high-consequence environment; experience applying risk-based approaches to evaluate rigor level of product qualification activities
• Social acuity and emotional intelligence; the ability to anticipate and resolve ambiguous and contentious issues with differing technical points of view through crucial conversations
• Experience in systems engineering principles and practices, with a strong understanding of the product realization lifecycle, including requirements definition, design, development, testing, and deployment of complex systems.
• Implementing R&D surety engineering principles, tools, methodologies, and best direction
• Understanding of the development and execution of qualification plans, requirements maps, test plans, and measurement assurance plans
• An ability to solve sophisticated technical problems in the absence of clear direction (experience in ambiguous environments)
• An ability to understand and evaluate diverse and incomplete data sets and draw appropriate engineering conclusions

The Surety Engineering Groups (2910 & 2920) are a center of excellence for research and development (R&D) Surety Systems Engineering at Sandia National Laboratories. With multidisciplinary engineers at numerous sites, our organization provides R&D hardware and software surety and systems engineering expertise throughout the entire product realization lifecycle, as well as, trains fellow scientists and engineers in defect prevention strategies and graded approaches to product qualification. We deliver strong technical solutions that increase customer confidence against loss, damage, and errors by minimizing a products risk through the prevention, early detection, and mitigation of defects. Our engineers play a critical role in R&D project teams responsible for realizing high-consequence products, providing customized engineering support that ensures the appropriate qualification and testing evidence meets design requirements in a predictable, timely, and sustainable manner.

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the 'posting date'. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

Position requires a Department of Energy (DOE) Q security clearance to start, or equivalent active security clearance with another U.S. government agency (e.g., DOD). Sandia is required by DOE directive to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.

Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

If you have a Medical Portable Electronic Device (MedPED), such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, drug-releasing pump, hearing aids, or diagnostic equipment and other equipment for measuring, monitoring, and recording body functions such as heartbeat and brain waves, if employed by Sandia National Laboratories you may be required to comply with NNSA security requirements for MedPEDs.

If you have a MedPED and you are selected for an on-site interview at Sandia National Laboratories, there may be additional steps necessary to ensure compliance with NNSA security requirements prior to the interview date.