First-Line Manager; Manufacturing Manager

What You Will Do

Come join the best and brightest minds in the world at one of the most innovative and creative multidisciplinary research institutions engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security. The work we do at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) matters to our country and the world. The PSD-1 Metal Production Group is seeking a highly motivated First Line Manager to support important national security missions at LANL, working in the Plutonium Supply and Disposition Division.

Our primary core functions support Pit Manufacturing and Pit Surveillance, and include groups dedicated to Pyrochemistry, Plutonium Machining, Assembly, and Foundry operations. The Manufacturing Manager 3, First Line Manager (FLM), will report to a Group Leader and will provide management and leadership of the assigned team. The FLM will have the responsibility, authority and accountability to execute work that supports programmatic milestones and deliverables while setting the standards for professional behavior and operational effectiveness.

• Planning, organizing, and defining strategic objectives.
• Establishing scope, schedule, and budget through work package development, resource and performance management and ensuring worker qualification and authorization.
• Delivering quality products and/or services; enforcing adherence to quality standards; achieving a balance between the need to meet both productivity goals and quality standards.
• Ensuring administrative and operating procedures are current, understood, and adhered to before releasing work.
• Working with facility operations staff to execute work safely, securely, with quality, and in compliance with nuclear facility requirements.
• Ensuring direct daily oversight of work, workers and the work environment; recognition as the safety responsible line manager over people, equipment, and processes.
• Ongoing communications with line management reporting on work status, deliverables and commitments.
• Directing and overseeing work performed by employees including "on the floor" supervision.
• Effective time management skills and the ability to deal effectively with changing priorities and conflicting demands.
• Effective teamwork in accomplishing objectives, including mentoring and motivating peers.
• Providing financial stewardship over budget, procurement, time and labor, travel, and property.

• Leadership: Demonstrated record of successful technical leadership and proven ability in supervising, resolving conflicts, administering discipline, mentoring, team building, managing staff requirements, motivating employees, and developing personnel such as students and/or early career scientists and engineers.
• Knowledge and Expertise: Demonstrated experience in developing work scope, schedules, budgets, and coordinating work activities. Experience planning for and managing tactical execution of work; tracking and reporting progress. Experience performing work in a manufacturing environment and executing work in compliance with facility requirements, conduct of operations, conduct of engineering and conduct of maintenance standards.
• Accountability: Experience working with confidential or proprietary information, classified documents or sensitive information.
• Communication: Demonstrated effective written and oral communication skills as evidenced by internal and/or external interactions, seminars, briefings, presentations, and publications; effective interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to interact with all levels of personnel and customers.
• Education/
  
  Experience:
  
  Position requires a Bachelor's Degree in a related field from an accredited institution and 5 years of related experience; or, an equivalent combination of education and experience directly related to the occupation.
• DOE Order 426.2: Requires a bachelor of science degree in engineering or related science, and 4 years nuclear experience. Education or experience that is job related may be substituted on a case‑by‑case basis. The degree may fulfill 3 of the 4 years of nuclear experience on a one‑for‑one time basis.

• Experience in project and…