What Your Job Will Be LikeSandia's Space Mission Engineering Program Office (SMEPO) strives to enhance national security by creating the future of our space enterprise. To this end we seek the toughest unmet, space control mission challenges for our DoD and IC partners. Solving these problems requires acting as a trusted resource, leveraging innovative ideas, applying differentiating technologies, and harnessing the strength of Sandia's unique capabilities.
We are seeking a mid-career science and engineering project manager with space systems experience to support a broad portfolio of critical high-security projects. The portfolio consists of a mix of analysis, modeling, and hardware demonstration efforts. Successful execution of these efforts will inform US Space Force acquisition planning, operations and technical risk reduction efforts. The successful candidate will have demonstrated the ability to strengthen partnerships, work with DoD or IC sponsors, manage teams effectively, and execute projects successfully through full lifecycle. The work is conducted at TS/SCI and special program levels.
On any given day, you may be called on to:
- Work in a high security environment delivering critical analysis, modeling and technical risk reduction capabilities for national security sponsors
- Lead diverse, multidisciplinary teams
- Proactively engage with sponsors to build trusted partnerships
- Team with sponsors and Sandia management and business lead to turn customer direction and guidance into proposals, contract actions and funding
- Take responsibility for ensuring customer directed and funded efforts in the program are executed and delivered as agreed
- Team with management, technical leads, and business leads to monitor, guide and track efforts
- Working with a business lead to report program status, issues, risks, and successes to customer and upper Sandia management through weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting mechanisms
- Work with program and information security staff to obtain the necessary facilities and capabilities to execute the program
- Help identify Sandia staffing and capability needs to meet customer deliverables and team with management and program staff to find solutions for these needs
Must be willing to support travel 1-2 times per month.
Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite.
Salary Range$117,500 - $235,700
*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- Bachelor's degree in a relevant STEM field (e.g., Physics, Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science) plus five or more years of directly relevant technical experience.
- A minimum of three (3) years of experience managing or leading Department of Defense or Intelligence Community programs for US Space Force or other National Security Space agencies.
- Current PMP certification or equivalent certification, or the ability to obtain within 12 months.
- Active DOE Q and SCI clearance.
Qualifications We Desire- More than five (5) years¿ experience executing and leading SCI and/or Special Access Program (SAP) level projects
- Demonstrated experience communicating with multidisciplinary technical and non-technical staff and leaders on technical topics, financial matters, and the strategic or tactical direction of a program.
- Experience managing projects with total budgets ranging from $50k to $5M
- 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 presenting in technical field to demonstrate mastery of a technical and programmatic subject area. Such presentations could include to upper-level management and seniors for major reviews and/or conference presentations
- 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
- Experience with business development, including the ability to develop proposals (cost/schedule/scope) and successfully being awarded sponsor funding
- Demonstrated ability to effectively interface with management, customers, and stakeholders at all levels
- Demonstrated experience authoring papers, for instance generating classified /unclassified reports, writing a thesis or publishing in refereed publications.
- Certification in project management, either (a) a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification OR (b) completion of the Defense Acquisition University Level III Program Management certification (previous certification title) or the current Defense Acquisition University "Advanced Program Management" certification
- Certification in Systems Engineering/Technical Management, either thru (a) a certification program, (b) a degree program in Systems Engineering or (c) thru Defense Acquisition University Level III Systems Engineering (previous certification title) or the current Defense Acquisition "Engineering and Technical Management - Practitioner" certification
- AGILE or scrum master experience
- Possess a strong dedication to positive teaming dynamics with a keen focus on supporting sponsors
About Our TeamThe Advanced Flight Systems and Enhancements department is responsible for advancing state-of-the-art flight sensing capability in our Nation's security interests. Efforts include:* Expanding the capability and performance of current systems above and beyond original specifications and expectations* Research and development with the goal of reducing risk, increasing TRL on emerging technologies, and creating industry standards* Working with industry to help implement Space-Based ISR systems
Posting DurationThis posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of three (3) calendar days, including the 'posting date'. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.
Security ClearancePosition requires a Department of Energy (DOE) SCI security clearance to start, or equivalent active security clearance with another U.S. government agency (e.g., DOD). 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.
