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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory · 5 hours ago

Facility Operations Manager - NIF Facility and Infrastructure

Livermore, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$262K/yr - $333K/yr

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is dedicated to strengthening the United States’ security through innovative solutions. The Facility Operations Manager will lead a multi-disciplinary team responsible for operating and modernizing the National Ignition Facility, ensuring operational excellence and strategic planning for future facility needs.

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Growth Opportunities

No H1B

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 approximately 60 engineers, technicians, designers, and operators working across multiple shifts and subsystems, while establishing, pursuing, and achieving a vision and strategy for reliability, quality, and mission delivery

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 infrastructure, often influencing, advancing, and setting the standard for best practices beyond the Laboratory

Support and play a key role in critical operations: Ensure the continuous availability and performance of highly complex utility and laser beamline infrastructure to support NIF’s demanding shot schedule, making high-impact decisions that determine the success and direction of major projects and programs. Resolve highly complex and sensitive technical issues, often requiring novel approaches

Oversee and drive modernization and project execution: Lead the implementation of the Sustainment Project and support the development and deployment of highly complex systems for the Enhanced Yield Capability initiative

Plan and operate strategically: Develop, apply, and execute long-range strategies to meet current and future facility needs, collaborating with engineering, project management, and scientific teams

Improve operational efficiency: Identify, develop, implement, lead, and continuously drive innovative improvements in process, system design, and maintenance approaches that enhance performance, uptime, and total cost of ownership

Communicate and coordinate: Routinely prepare, present, explain, and advise senior management, sponsors, and the project teams on system readiness, project progress, and long-term infrastructure planning. Influence strategic technical decisions and represent operational objectives at the highest levels, serving as a prime consultant and spokesperson for facility operations

Lead and administer financial planning and resource allocation for operations and sustainment activities, including a $10M annual budget, meeting key performance, cost, and schedule objectives, and managing and ensuring projects are completed on schedule and within budget

Perform other duties as assigned

Qualification

Facility operations managementStrategic planningBudget managementTechnical leadershipReliability engineeringAsset managementSystems engineeringCommunication skillsCollaboration skillsProblem-solving skills

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, lead, and continuously drive 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