Overview

The Operational Systems Directorate (OSD) leads delivery of PNNL's 10-year, $1.2 billion campus construction portfolio- the single largest construction and modernization effort in the Laboratory's history. OSD oversees operations and facility services, maintenance, and infrastructure planning.

A team of nearly 800 staff comprise OSD, spanning in a wide range of disciplines, including craftspeople, engineers, construction professionals, technicians, scientists, administrators, and specialists. Together, they ensure that PNNL's assets, services, and OSD-led programs are managed and performing safely, securely, reliably, effectively, and efficiently.

The directorate stewards more than $250 million in annual budget authority; managing more than 2.5 million square feet of facility space across two campuses; overseeing approximately 200 regulatory program areas; and executing a multi-million-dollar facility and infrastructure project portfolio.

The Project Integration and Execution (PI&E) Division delivers mission-ready projects from concept inception through readiness and beneficial use in support of the forward-looking PNNL campus strategy, emerging research needs, and the ongoing investments in modernizing and maintaining PNNL's existing facilities, utilities, and infrastructure. PI&E excels in actualizing projects that maximize safety, functionality, and reliability, while optimizing the efficiency, sustainability, and life-cycle operating costs of PNNL facility and infrastructure capabilities to enable a mission ready world-class research and development campus for the Department of Energy.

Responsibilities

Responsible for safe delivery and the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control, and completion of specific projects, ensuring consistency with organizational strategy, commitments, and goals. This includes acquiring resources and coordinating the efforts of team members and third-party resources to deliver projects according to plan. Also, responsible to define the projects objectives and oversee quality control throughout its life cycle. Key attributes leading to the determination of upward progression in this career family include project complexity, risk, team size, business volume, contract type, and political/client/business sensitivities.

In this role, the Project Manager 4 is expected to provide leadership for large, high-risk, complex projects, including directing and/or providing guidance to Project Managers and below; serving as a primary interface with senior-level sponsors and external stakeholders; and managing changes in strategic direction, scope, schedule, and budget across multiple projects.

Additional responsibilities include:

• PMP certification or demonstrated equivalent (knowledge competency criteria) expected.
• Experience working to ASME NQA-1 (ASME-NQA-2008/2009 and addenda) quality assurance requirements for project planning, procurement, installation, inspection/testing, documentation, nonconformance/corrective action, and turnover.
• Demonstrated ability to safely manage large, high-risk, complex projects with diversified cross-functional project teams, including coordination with multiple external institutions and/or teams that may be geographically and culturally dispersed.
• Demonstrated experience delivering construction modifications in operating DOE Hazard Category II non-reactor nuclear facilities (or similar DOE or commercial nuclear experience), including integration with facility operations, work planning/control, radiological controls, and readiness/turnover.
• Prior experience with Earned Value Management System implementation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including experience serving as a primary PNNL interface with senior-level sponsors and other external stakeholders.
• Experience in developing construction project documents including statements of work, project plans/execution plans, and project progress reports.
• Demonstrated ability to support multiple projects simultaneously and effectively work in hybrid work teams (mixture of staff members working onsite and remote).

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS/BA and 11+ years of relevant project management experience -OR-
• MS/MA or higher and 9+ years of relevant project management experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in project management, construction management, engineering, nuclear engineering, or business administration.
• Depth of knowledge in the desired science and technology domain (e.g., nuclear/radiochemical research support environments) sufficient to lead complex, mission-enabling facility projects.
• Prior experience with U.S. Government [e.g., DOE (DOE O 413.3B)] project management, proposal, and financial policies, procedures, resources, and organizational structures.
• Government document control experience.
• Experience using ProCore Construction Management software (creating project templates, inputting construction contract documents, tracking submittals).
• Strong software utilization skills including Microsoft Office 365 Power Platform tools (PowerApps, SharePoint, Power BI, and PowerAutomate), Microsoft Project and/or Oracle's Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Manager.
• Strong ability to organize large amounts of information and summarize for stakeholder reporting using multiple software tools.

Hazardous Working Conditions/Environment

This position supports delivery of projects within the Radiochemical Processing Laboratory (RPL/325 Building), a Hazard Category II non-reactor nuclear facility, including construction modifications and infrastructure upgrades executed in an operating nuclear environment, with application of ASME NQA-1 quality assurance requirements as applicable.

Additional Information

This position involves access to sensitive systems and information. U.S. Citizenship is required. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is subject to the Department of Energy Unclassified Foreign Visits & Assignments Program site, information, technologies, and equipment access requirements.

Testing Designated Position

This position is a Testing Designated Position (TDP). The candidate selected for this position will be subject to pre-employment and random drug testing for illegal drugs, including marijuana, consistent with the Controlled Substances Act and the PNNL Workplace Substance Abuse Program.

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Employees and their families are offered medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, robust telehealth care options, several mental health benefits, free wellness coaching, health savings account, flexible spending accounts, basic life insurance, disability insurance*, employee assistance program, business travel insurance, tuition assistance, relocation, backup childcare, legal benefits, supplemental parental bonding leave, surrogacy and adoption assistance, and fertility support. Employees are automatically enrolled in our company-funded pension plan* and may enroll in our 401 (k) savings plan with company match*. Employees may accrue up to 120 vacation hours per year and may receive ten paid holidays per year.

* Research Associates excluded.

**All benefits are dependent upon eligibility.

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Notice to Applicants

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As part of our commitment to fair compensation practices, we do not ask for or consider current or past salaries in making compensation offers at hire. Instead, our compensation offers are determined by the specific requirements of the position, prevailing market trends, applicable collective bargaining agreements, pay equity for the position type, and individual qualifications and skills relevant to the performance of the position.

Minimum Salary

USD $166,800.00/Yr.
Maximum Salary

USD $275,200.00/Yr.