Early Career Laboratory Support Technologist, Pulsed Power - Onsite

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Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:

• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
• Extraordinary co-workers
• Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
• Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
• Generous vacation, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*

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* These benefits vary by job classification.

Join a dynamic team that helps tackle some of the most challenging issues facing our nation's security! You could be the R&D Laboratory Support Technologist we are looking for to join the High Hazard Operations team!

On any given day, you may be called upon to:

• This position will work a 2nd schedule (afternoon to evening)
• Assist in the planning and coordination of daily pre and post-experiment activities.
• Participate in the develop and implementation of Engineered Safety practices and Work Planning & Controls aligning with ES&H requirements for required work activities.
• Set up, operate, maintain, and modify commercial and custom-built scientific systems (e.g. Magnetically Insulated Transmission Lines (MITL) and Center Stack).
• Set up and quality check complex laboratory experiments involving various types of diagnostics.
• Perform critical lifts with bridge cranes and forklifts, confined space entries, and assist with general laboratory operations (e.g. ordering and stocking consumables, materials movement, housekeeping).
• This work environment requires extended physical activity while wearing personal protection equipment (PPE), including full Tyvek and respirator (2-6 hours per day); entering and working in confined spaces and non-air-conditioned environments; climbing up and down ladders numerous times a day while wearing PPE; climbing multiple flights of stairs numerous times a day; and bending, twisting, climbing, crawling, crouching, squatting, pushing, and pulling.
• Assist, cross-train, and shadow any 1600 personnel as need to support facility operations.
• Individually or with the team, recommend and initiate new concepts and ideas to improve workflow and practices.
• Transfer or support day or evening shift operational teams, as business needs arise

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite.

$63,800 - $123,400

* Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

• High School diploma or equivalent
• Hands-on experience in the servicing/repair/development of a complex system (electrical, mechanical, electro-mechanical)
• Experience operating various types of heavy equipment
• Ability to obtain and maintain DOE Q security clearance

• Experience working in environments that are high consequence
• Experience in implementing quality principles and standards, using Work Process & Controls
• Highly self-motivated, adaptable to change, effective collaborator in high-stress situations
• A documented history of developing new skills and increasing expertise
• Ability to model behaviors that reflect Sandia National Laboratories' core values

Department 01671, High Hazard Operations, is a united, interdisciplinary team dedicated to ensuring operational readiness, adaptive execution, and systems of systems analysis for scientific campaigns at Sandia National Laboratories
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