Science and Technology Program Manager in the RF & Systems Electronics Center - Onsite

About Sandia:

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*

World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://www.sandia.gov

*These benefits vary by job classification.

What Your Job Will Be Like:

Our team is seeking a highly motivated Science and Technology Program Manager. You will work closely with a multi-disciplinary staff and team to include software engineers, electronic engineers, and Microwave Engineers. As part of Sandia's Electronic Warfare initiatives, you will work closely with managers, other project leads/engineers, teams and customer to help with planning, requirements, integration and communications. At any given time, you may be asked to help update development backlogs, plan for upcoming releases, support strategic initiatives and work to coordinate and integrate tasks across teams to meet project deliverables.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Employ an agile engineering approach that supports the integration and testing of Electronic Warfare (EW) Systems

• Support the representation of the EW Systems with customer organizations.

• Track and document development progress for the EW System Development.

• Coordinate with project leads and technical staff in the activities needed to develop, test, and deploy EW systems.

• Integrate and coordinate with external stakeholders for the testing and operations of EW systems

• Lead a multi-disciplinary team of technical staff in the development and deployment of EW test assets, deployment systems, and validation and verification of RF Systems

• Work with Business Staff to understand relationship between costs and schedule and technical execution of work to better inform technical staff.

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite on a regular basis.

Salary Range:

$114,000 - $227,500

*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.

Qualifications We Require:

• You have a bachelors degree in a STEM-related field or higher.

• You possess 5 or more years of S&E Engineering technical experience in one of the following engineering fields: electronic, microwave and sensor, software, industrial or mechanical engineering.

• Current PMP certification or equivalent certification, or the ability to obtain within 12 months.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q Security Clearance and an SCI clearance which may require a polygraph test.

Qualifications We Desire:

Ideally, we would like to see your background include some of the following:

• Masters Degree in Project Management, Systems Engineering, Industrial Engineering or relevant field to perform S&T Program Management; or equivalent experience

• Experience building relationships and establishing credibility with scientists, engineers, and technical project teams.

• Experience in technical management processes: lifecycle management, requirements engineering, configuration management, risk management, verification and validation, etc.

• Experience developing tools and processes to optimize technical management of science and engineering projects

• Demonstrated teaming skills, including the ability to work effectively with leadership at multiple levels, customers, other organizations, and technical leads.

• Demonstrated technical writing and presentation skills, including an ability to succinctly explain complex technical concepts.

• Demonstrated leadership experience involving technical and programmatic responsibilities.

• Demonstrated ability to effectively interface with management, customers, and stakeholders at all levels."

• Experience with the IC, DoD, or Special Operations Community

• Ability to brief and coordinate customers and stakeholders

• Ability to provide and author recommendations for planning, procedures and key metrics for large projects

• Ability to update documentation of key deliverables to include briefing material, test procedures, or concepts of operations.

• Experience with Electronic Warfare systems, Intelligence Community, and Special Operations Community

• Active DOE Q or DoD TS Security Clearance

• Active SCI clearance which may require a polygraph test.

About Our Team:

The RF & Systems Electronics Center (Center 05300) provides key electronics systems work to a wide variety of nuclear weapons, space, intelligence, and military programs across Sandia and the Nation. The Advanced RF Systems group (05330) supports the Nations technology superiority strategies by delivering capabilities for RF & spectral dominance, global highly reliable communications, and novel advancements for future strength. We are a highly dynamic set of departments that cross-team to provide integrated engineering systems solutions ranging from core research through prototype development and high-end, fielded products.

The Advanced Systems department (05364) develops multi-domain novel electromagnetic attack concepts and systems with an eye on low size, weight, and power constrained applications. Our customers include a variety of government organizations including the U.S Armed Forces, the Intelligence Community, and special operations Community. Our staff members have a diverse skills base including microwave circuit design, antenna design, signal analysis, digital signal processing, embedded software, and system designs comprised of the latest associated hardware. We partner across the laboratory and the group to bring on other critical skill sets to our multi-disciplinary team to include computer scientists, systems engineers, and cyber engineers. Our design challenges include system development (designing scalable systems, systems integration into host platforms, etc), understanding complex adversary systems and associated vulnerabilities, and signal analysis and generation of RF low probably of detect waveforms.

Posting Duration:

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the 'posting date'. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

Security Clearance:

Sandia is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance and SCI access, both of which require US citizenship. SCI access may also require a polygraph examination. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain these levels of access may be impacted.

Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by the DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

EEO:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

NNSA Requirements for MedPEDs:

If you have a Medical Portable Electronic Device (MedPED), such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, drug-releasing pump, hearing aids, or diagnostic equipment and other equipment for measuring, monitoring, and recording body functions such as heartbeat and brain waves, if employed by Sandia National Laboratories you may be required to comply with NNSA security requirements for MedPEDs.

If you have a MedPED and you are selected for an on-site interview at Sandia National Laboratories, there may be additional steps necessary to ensure compliance with NNSA security requirements prior to the interview date.

Job ID: 695558

Job Family: PM

Regular/Temporary Position: R

Full/Part-Time Status: F