Facility Operations Manager - NIF Facility and Infrastructure

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Mid-Senior Level | Full-time
Engineering | Livermore, CA | 12/18/2025
Reference #: REF
7739N
Job Code: SEL.
5 Science & Engineering TSL 5
Organization: Engineering
Position Type: Career Indefinite
Security Clearance: Anticipated DOE Q clearance (requires U.S. citizenship and a federal background investigation)
Drug Test: Required for external applicant(s) selected for this position (includes testing for use of marijuana)
Medical Exam: Not applicable Apply Now

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Are you interested in joining some of the brightest talent in the world to strengthen the United States’ security? Come join Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) where our employees apply their expertise to create solutions for BIG ideas that make our world a better place.

We are dedicated to fostering a culture that values individuals, talents, partnerships, ideas, experiences, and different perspectives, recognizing their importance to the continued success of the Laboratory’s mission.

Pay Range

$262,410 - $332,772 Annually

This is the lowest to highest salary in good faith 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.

Do you want to lead a team that shapes one of the most advanced facilities in the world while enabling groundbreaking national security science? The National Ignition Facility (NIF)—the world’s largest and most energetic laser—seeks a dynamic Facility Operations Manager to guide the NIF Facilities & Infrastructure team through operations, critical upgrades, reliability engineering, and lifecycle sustainment planning. This role offers a unique opportunity to apply your expertise and vision to strengthen the backbone of a world-class facility.

As the Facility Operations Manager, you will provide strategic direction and technical leadership to a multi-disciplinary team responsible for operating, maintaining, and modernizing the infrastructure that supports around-the-clock laser operations. You will champion the long-range sustainment and modernization of critical systems, drive facility upgrades to support future mission requirements, including the Sustainment Project and the Enhanced Yield Capability initiative, and provide direct leadership in budget planning, resource allocation, and budget oversight.

In this role you will

• 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…