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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory · 16 hours ago

NIF&PS OMST Engineering & Maintenance Manager – Optics Materials Science & Technology (OMST)

Livermore, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

$262K/yr - $333K/yr

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is dedicated to strengthening the United States’ security through innovative solutions. They are seeking an Engineering & Maintenance Manager to lead the Optics Materials Science & Technology team in enhancing optics processing capabilities, ensuring operational excellence, and managing multi-disciplinary engineering efforts.

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Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Lead teams, programs, or functions with a technical focus, operate under broad consultative direction with significant autonomy, use expert knowledge and extensive team leadership experience, and exercise judgment within established policies to monitor workflow, allocate resources, ensure timely completion of projects, and influence and direct high-level strategic plans to achieve objectives while managing organizational and operational impact and attaining long-range goals

Provide strategic technical and operational leadership to a highly skilled, multi-disciplinary team of engineers, technicians, and designers, while establishing, pursuing, and achieving a vision and strategy for reliability, quality, and mission delivery in optics processing

Lead, execute, and/or coordinate recruiting, hiring, training, career development, and performance and salary management activities as needed to meet programmatic staffing, employee development, and performance and salary related needs, including providing career counseling, mentoring, and technical guidance

Champion reliability and lifecycle sustainment by developing and applying highly advanced methods in systems engineering, reliability engineering, condition-based maintenance, and asset management for specialized optics processing infrastructure, often influencing, advancing, and setting the standard for best practices beyond the Laboratory

Ensure the continuous availability, performance, and safety of highly complex optics processing systems, including oversight of laboratory WCDs and other OMST facilities and equipment, and make decisions that determine and drive the success and direction of major projects and programs

Lead the implementation of upgrades, reliability-centered maintenance, and deployment of new technologies and process improvements for OMST systems and frequently redefine customer requirements and integrate innovative solutions

Develop and guide long-range strategies to meet current and future OMST facility needs, and collaborate with engineering, project management, and scientific teams to integrate and implement new programs that influence organizational operations and directions

Identify, perform in-depth analysis, and implement innovative improvements in process, system design, and maintenance approaches that enhance performance, uptime, and total cost of ownership, as well as drive courses of action and provide innovative solutions to highly complex or unusual issues that often represent breakthroughs in facility operations and reliability

Oversee financial planning and resource allocation for operations and sustainment activities, including a $3M annual procurement budget, meeting key performance, cost, and schedule objectives, and managing and ensuring projects are completed on schedule and within budget

Mentor engineering staff on LLNL and NIF processes, implement engineering practices for OMST and other NIF&PS program projects, and develop and maintain effective relationships to enable productive interaction and collaboration with off-site vendors and subcontractors for troubleshooting and technical direction

Perform other duties as assigned

Qualification

Systems engineeringReliability engineeringBudget managementOptics processing systemsTechnical leadershipStrategic planningResource optimizationAsset managementCollaboration skillsCommunication skillsMentoringProblem-solving

Required

Ability to secure and maintain a U.S. DOE Q level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship

Bachelor's degree in Physics, Engineering, or related technical field, or the equivalent combination of education and related experience

Extensive experience and demonstrated ability to champion, develop, implement, and lead, innovative, cutting-edge principles and concepts in facility operations

Extensive technical leadership and management experience directing large, multi-disciplinary technical and operations teams in a highly complex industrial, laboratory, or defense-related environment

Extensive experience, expert level knowledge and skills, and demonstrated success in strategic planning, resource optimization, and driving innovation in technical settings

Extensive experience in effectively managing multi-million-dollar budgets, allocating resources strategically, collaborating with leadership to align annual priorities with organizational goals, and applying expert-level knowledge of systems and reliability engineering principles, infrastructure sustainment strategies, and asset management

Demonstrated extensive experience in facility operations involving cleanliness, stability, controls, and specialized optics processing systems

Demonstrated expert level skills and extensive experience in successfully resolving highly complex technical issues, tackling unique challenges, and sustaining critical infrastructure

Expert communication, facilitation, and collaboration skills necessary to effectively present, explain, influence, and advise professional colleagues, senior management, and external collaborators