Operations and Maintenance Program Manager ; Program Manager

Overview

What You Will Do:

As a Weapons Infrastructure and Planning Office (WIPO) Program Manager 1 or 2, you will provide leadership and overall portfolio management for a specific scope in the areas of Operations of Facilities and Maintenance of Facilities. You will work closely with the WIPO team under limited direction of the Program Director to determine and execute work to meet federal customer needs, time frames, and funding requirements.

You will develop working relationships with internal LANL stakeholders and external stakeholders, including federal customers.

As a Weapons Infrastructure and Planning Office (WIPO) Program Manager 1 or 2, you will provide leadership and overall portfolio management for a specific scope in the following areas:
Operations of Facilities and Maintenance of Facilities. You will work closely with the WIPO team of Program Managers under limited direction of the Program Director to determine and execute work to meet federal customer (e.g., NA-90 & NA-10) needs, time frames, and funding requirements. In doing so, you will develop working relationships with internal LANL stakeholders and external stakeholders, including federal customers.

You will work closely with internal WIPO customers (Team Leaders, Group Leaders, Division Leaders, etc.) with LANL programmatic organizations (Associate Directorate for Weapons, Associate Directorate for Capital Projects, Associate Directorate for Plutonium Infrastructure, Facility Operations Directors [FODs]), and with Los Alamos Field Office and HQ NNSA representatives to ensure Weapons Infrastructure requirements are identified.

You will interface with multiple internal customers and external customers to strategize, develop, negotiate, communicate, and define program scope, in accordance with Laboratory and Weapons Programs missions and priorities, and to balance the best interests of the customers, the program, and LANL. This position will monitor performance, develop plans for infrastructure improvements, and coordinate with management for the implementation of corrective actions.

Participate in internal and federal program cost review deliverables with the understanding that critical deadlines must be met. As part of the Weapons Infrastructure Team, you will participate in improvement initiatives including new business processes, tool development, risk identification and perform special projects as requested by WIPO management.

Minimum

Job Requirements:

• Program/Project Management:
  Demonstrated experience in at least one of the following technical or operational disciplines: capital line item construction projects, general plant projects, nuclear facilities, or nuclear facility line management.
• Experience with these projects should include one or more of the following elements: safety, safeguards, security, waste management, criticality safety, radiation protection, conduct of operations, and quality assurance.
• Working knowledge of and experience in program management of technical or operational work, including defining program work scope, schedules, budgets, priorities, and performance milestones; scope and schedule baselines; reporting cost and schedule variance; and managing change control and risk.
• Strong attention to detail related to project planning and reporting.

• Technical
  
  Experience:
  
  Knowledge and experience in engineering, finance, construction and/or other project related activities, including interfaces and inter-dependencies.
• An understanding of financial analysis and planning concepts.
• Knowledge of developing project execution plans, work breakdown structures, and work packages; managing to scope, schedule, budget, and technical baselines; and documenting baseline reports and change control actions.

• Communication: Demonstrated ability to effectively present technical and programmatic work, concepts, and plans to a variety of audiences.
• Ability to interact effectively with all levels of internal and/or external personnel, building trust, gaining consensus, and resolving conflicts.
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills.

• Collaboration: Demonstrated experience in developing and nurturing effective internal and/or external customer relationships.

• Clearance: Ability to obtain a Q clearance is required.

• In addition to the requirements outlined above, qualification at the higher level requires autonomy and mature decision-making, sometimes without direction.

Program Manager 1: Position requires a bachelor's degree in a related field from an accredited institution and 2 years of directly related experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience directly related to the occupation.

Program Manager 2: Position requires a bachelor's degree in a related field from an accredited institution and 5 years of directly related experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience directly related to the…