Manager of Projects ; Project Services Manager

What You Will Do

The Project Services Manager provides strategic leadership and management for a complex, construction-focused project services organization supporting Laboratory mission execution. This role oversees a multidisciplinary portfolio that includes construction planning, construction field engineering, field testing and inspections, construction estimating, quality management, and materials purchasing and warehousing. The Manager ensures that project services functions are fully integrated with project execution, safety, quality, cost, and schedule objectives across multiple programs and facilities.

This position plays a critical role in enabling successful delivery of moderate-to-large, technically complex construction and infrastructure projects with high regulatory and mission significance.

• Provide overall leadership, direction, and tactical planning for Project Services functions supporting construction and infrastructure projects.
• Establish and articulate organizational goals, priorities, and performance expectations aligned with Laboratory mission needs.
• Integrate project services activities across multiple organizations, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and compliance.
• Direct and oversee construction planners and schedulers, construction field engineering teams, field testing and inspection personnel, construction estimating professionals, quality management staff, materials buyers and warehousing operations.
• Ensure effective coordination between project controls, field execution, and supply chain functions to support cost, schedule, and technical performance.
• Implement and model Integrated Safety Management (ISM) principles, ensuring safety, security, environmental stewardship, and quality are integrated into every task.
• Ensure compliance with DOE, NNSA, and Laboratory policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
• Support definition of construction work scope, schedules, budgets, and funding strategies.
• Provide oversight of estimating, planning, and cost/schedule integration activities.
• Identify risks related to construction execution, materials, quality, and field performance; develop and implement mitigation strategies.
• Interface with project, program, and line management to monitor progress, resolve issues, and ensure milestone achievement.
• Manage and develop a diverse, multidisciplinary workforce through partnership with line organizations.
• Oversee staffing plans, hiring, onboarding, performance management, and professional development.
• Foster an inclusive, respectful, and high-performance work environment.

Minimum Job Requirements:

• In-depth knowledge of project and program management principles, particularly as applied to construction and field operations.
• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary construction or project services organizations.
• Strong understanding of construction planning, estimating, quality assurance, field engineering, inspections, and materials management.
• Proven ability to manage cost, schedule, scope, risk, and performance across complex project portfolios.
• Experience implementing and enforcing regulatory, safety, quality, and institutional requirements.
• Excellent leadership, communication, negotiation, and stakeholder engagement skills.

• Advanced degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or related discipline.
• Professional certifications such as PMP, PMI-SP, PMI-RMP, PE, CCM, or Six Sigma/Lean, or related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience leading project services organizations supporting large, complex construction or capital infrastructure programs, preferably in a regulated or high-hazard environment.

Position requires a Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution and 8 years related experience; or, an equivalent combination of education and experience directly related to the occupation.

Work Location: The work location for this position is onsite and located in Los Alamos, NM. All work locations are at the discretion of management.

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