Los Alamos National Laboratory

Dual Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test (DARHT) Facility Programmatic Operations Manager (Operations Manager 4)

Los Alamos National Laboratory$141K — $238K *
Aerospace & Defense
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field and 8 years of relevant experience, or equivalent education/experience.
  • Experience in coordinating work in high-hazard operations environments.
  • Skill in integrating programmatic work with facility operations and safety protocols.
  • Proficiency in evaluating and ensuring work compliance with documentation and safety standards.
  • Ability to lead cross-organizational discussions and communicate effectively across diverse teams.
  • Must obtain and maintain a DOE Q clearance, if not currently held.

Responsibilities

  • Act as the primary point of contact for DARHT programmatic operations.
  • Coordinate with various teams to ensure work is safe and compliant.
  • Integrate work schedules and processes across multiple operations and maintenance functions.
  • Evaluate and confirm that all work meets required controls and documentation before execution.
  • Lead discussions to resolve conflicts and communicate decisions to all stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness programs.
  • Retirement savings plan options with employer contributions.
  • Access to professional development and training opportunities.
  • Collaborative work environment focused on national security and innovation.
Full Job Description
Job Title Dual Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test (DARHT) Facility Programmatic Operations Manager (Operations Manager 4) Location Los Alamos, NM, US Organization Name J-DO/INTEGRATED WEAPONS EXPERIMENTS Minimum Salary 141500 Maximum Salary 238300 What You Will Do The Integrated Weapons Experiments (J) Division is seeking an Operations Manager 4 to serve as the Dual-Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test Facility (DARHT) Programmatic Operations Manager (DOM). DARHT supports the Nation's Stockpile Stewardship mission through execution of hydrodynamic testing. The DARHT Operations Manager will serve within the J Division Office as the delegated programmatic operations authority for DARHT, ensuring that programmatic work is integrated, authorized, held, sequenced, and released in accordance with applicable Laboratory requirements and the approved DARHT operating envelope. This role is the day-to-day programmatic operations point of contact for DARHT. The selected candidate will coordinate across accelerator operations, hydrotest execution teams, maintenance and outage planning, facility-owner interfaces, safety-basis and configuration-management interfaces, firing-site operations, training, quality, and work-control organizations to ensure work is ready for safe and compliant execution. This position provides functional operations authority from the J Division Office; it is not a Responsible Line Manager role and does not have direct reports. What You Need Minimum Job Requirements: • Demonstrated experience coordinating or authorizing work in an accelerator, radiography, explosives, nuclear, high-hazard, experimental, or similarly controlled operations environment. • Demonstrated experience integrating programmatic work with facility operations, maintenance, engineering, work control, access control, safety programs, and daily or weekly execution schedules. • Demonstrated ability to evaluate whether work entering a facility has the required procedure, work-control documentation, hazard controls, technical approvals, trained and qualified personnel, facility interfaces, and post-work turnover or return-to-service path. • Demonstrated experience using a work-release process to confirm that planned work is properly scoped, controlled, scheduled, staffed, and coordinated before execution. • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-organizational operational discussions, resolve execution conflicts, and communicate decisions clearly to workers, technical staff, facility personnel, and management. • Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q clearance, if not already held. Education/Experience: Position requires a Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution and 8 years related experience; or, an equivalent combination of education and experience directly related to the occupation. Desired Qualifications: • Experience supporting DARHT, accelerator operations, hydrodynamic testing, high-explosives firing-site operations, radiography operations, or other high-consequence national-security operations. • Experience implementing or interfacing with conduct of operations, safety-basis controls, unreviewed-safety-issue processes, configuration management, post-maintenance testing, integrated work management, or facility-owner release processes. • Experience with Plan of the Day, Plan of the Week, outage planning, maintenance coordination, work-status tracking, return-to-service reviews, or operational readiness reviews. • Experience coordinating across line organizations, technical authorities, facility operations, experiment teams, maintenance organizations, training organizations, quality personnel, and records/document-control personnel. • Demonstrated experience conducting or supporting critiques, fact findings, causal analysis, corrective actions, lessons learned, or management assessments. • Experience with Laboratory work-management, training, qualification, document-control, and issue-management systems. • Active DOE Q clearance. Work Schedule: This position is full-time and onsite. The normal schedule is expected to be a day-shift schedule; however, DARHT operations, hydrotest execution, maintenance windows, operational recovery, exercises, or abnormal events may require early morning, evening, weekend, or other irregular support. Schedule assignments are at the discretion of management. Work Location : The work location for this position is onsite and located in Los Alamos, NM. All work locations are at the discretion of management. Position commitment: Regular appointment employees are required to serve a period of continuous service in their current position in order to be eligible to apply for posted jobs throughout the Laboratory. If an employee has not served the time required, they may only apply for Laboratory jobs with the documented approval of their Division Leader. The position commitment for this position is 1 year. Note to Applicants: For full consideration, please submit a comprehensive resume and a detailed cover letter explaining how you meet each of the minimum requirements and any desired qualifications. Due to federal restrictions contained in the current National Defense Authorization Act, citizens of the People's Republic of China-including the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau-as well as citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), and the Russian Federation, who are not Lawful Permanent Residents ("green card" holders) are prohibited from accessing facilities that support the mission, functions, and operations of national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities, which includes Los Alamos National Laboratory. Employment Status Full Time Appointment Type Regular Regular Contact Details Contact Name Robinson, Loren Email [email protected] Work Telephone

About Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory initially organized during World War II for the design of nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project. It is located a short distance northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico in the southwestern United States. LANL conducts research in fields such as national security, space exploration, renewable energy, medicine, nanotechnology, and supercomputing. It is the largest institution of its kind in the world. LANL is managed and operated by Triad National Security, LLC, which is composed of Battelle Memorial Institute, the University of California, and the Texas A&M University System.
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