Physics Division Leader

Company Description

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 committed to a diverse and equitable workforce with an inclusive culture that values and celebrates the diversity of our people, talents, ideas, experiences, and perspectives.

This is essential to innovation and creativity for continued success of the Laboratory’s mission.

$406,380 - $517,944 annually

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 have an opening for a Division Leader (DL) to provide leadership, oversight, and management of the Physics Division. Staff in the division support all major Laboratory programs, including Strategic Deterrence (SD), National Ignition Facility & Photon Science (NIF&PS), and Global Security (GS), as well as programs funded by the DOE Office of Science and various non‑DOE sponsors. The research activities of the Division include the use of state‑of‑the‑art capabilities and unique resources to advance the frontiers of discovery and to understand physical systems in extreme environments, including high temperatures, high pressures, extreme magnetic fields, plasmas, and isolated quantum states.

You will oversee an estimated $75 M of programs and projects, including sponsored research, institutionally supported activities, and Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) projects. This position reports to the Principal Associate Director for Physical and Life Sciences (PLS).

• Provide overall leadership, direction, and scientific and technical oversight to the Physics Division to ensure an effective approach to recruiting and hiring high quality scientific staff, and training and developing the existing staff.
• Articulate the missions and develop the strategic plan for the Division that defines its core capabilities and future scientific directions; actively engage with LLNL discipline directorates and programs to deepen partnerships and ensure the synergy and complementarity of research activities.
• Manage research and development activities in the Division in multiple research areas and ensure the creation, maintenance, and enhancement of underlying core competencies.
• Oversee performance management and evaluation of all Division staff. This includes ongoing training and career development activities, yearly performance management, rating, and salary actions.
• Oversee research commitments, program resources and multiple budgets including DOE, external programs, and internal science funding, ensuring all Laboratory and DOE fiscal policies and practices are followed.
• Lead program development for the division and identify divisional staffing needs for current and future Laboratory programs, collaborating with leaders of other LLNL organizations.
• Establish and enhance effective partnerships and directorate level interactions with sponsors of Physics programs; foster integration with relevant national and international scientific organizations and their activities, including workshop and conference sponsorship and major interactions and collaborations with universities, national labs and pertinent Physics science program sponsors at other DOE laboratories.

• Ability to secure and maintain a U.S. DOE Q‑level security clearance which requires U.S. citizenship.
• PhD in a scientific discipline relevant to Physics Division research or a related field, or the equivalent combination of education and related experience, with technical expertise in one or more areas of Physics.
• Record of scientific creativity,…