What Your Job Will Be LikeThe Thermal, Fluid, and Aerosciences group (1510) is searching for a visionary department manager who can strengthen its technical leadership in the core competencies of incompressible, porous, reactive, and multiphase flow, thermal/fluid coupling, plasma physics, and rarefied gas dynamics while advancing a strategy for the future. The Computational Aerosciences Department resides in the Thermal, Fluid, and Aero Sciences Group within the Engineering Sciences Center (1500). This department supports a wide variety of work that directly impacts several mission areas, including but not limited to, nuclear deterrence, aerospace systems, renewable energy and security applications. This work also spans the research, development, and application spectrum, with significant contributions to discovery science, analysis for ND programs, and everything in between. This role will require deepening and expanding partnerships with product organizations as well as collaborating with computational and experimental organizations to advance capabilities and processes for product development with vastly reduced uncertainty and variability. Maintaining a balanced portfolio of department work across the research-development-applications spectrum is needed to ensure the department stays at the forefront of rapidly evolving capabilities. The manager's ability to attract, retain, and develop a pipeline of exceptional staff expertise to sustain the department's leadership role in thermal and fluid component science technology is critical to success.
On any given day, you may be called on to:
- Develop and maintain strong partnerships with other managers within the Group, Center, and broader Laboratories to further work across the research, development and application spectrum
- Negotiate work-scope, manage budgets, and provide assurance of department deliverables
- Foster a culture that promotes safety and security, as well as a diverse and inclusive work environment
- Strengthen internal and external partnerships to enrich relationships, leverage strengths, and amplify our mission impact
- Inspire innovation to advance cutting-edge capabilities that provide a differentiating advantage in supporting the core missions of the Laboratories
- Participate in setting technical direction for the Advanced Strategic Computing, and Delivery Environments programs, which will require strong interactions with various system and component organizations and may involve taking on programmatic responsibilities
- Traveling occasionally to support ongoing and new business efforts
Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite.
Salary Range$163,700 - $278,000
*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- Advanced degree (M.S. or PhD) in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Physics, or relevant Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math (STEM) discipline
- Technical depth in an Engineering discipline
- 5 years of leadership experience as demonstrated by serving as a project manager, principal investigator, or prior management experience
- Experience with program development including interfacing with customers and partners (industry, government, university, etc.)
- Ability to obtain and maintain a DoE Q clearance
Qualifications We Desire- Experience with the Nuclear Deterrence program at Sandia
- Experience in performing research and leading research
- Evidence of building successful partnerships across disparate organizations
- Broad knowledge of Sandia's Missions and capabilities
- Commitment to staff career development at all levels of experience and training
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- NNSA or other program experience (e.g., Advanced Simulation and Computing, Delivery Environments, Weapons Survivability, etc.)
About Our TeamThe Thermal/Fluid Component Sciences Department of Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico offers challenging and important work relating to national security in R&D and technology applications in fluid modeling and analysis, and experimental discovery and validation support in discipline areas such as: incompressible flow, porous flow, reactive flow, multiphase flow, thermal/fluid coupling, suspensions, plasma physics, and rarefied gas dynamics. The department supports activities spanning the entire research-design-analysis spectrum, from discovering and creating fundamental physical models, to developing computational algorithms and codes, to applying these models and codes to solve fluid and plasma problems in a wide range of applications.
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.
