Job Description

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 vacations, 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:

We are seeking a manager to lead and develop Center 6700’s Monitoring Systems and Technology (MST) Quality Department. We provide the center’s capability for defining, implementing, maintaining, and continuously improving Quality Management Systems (QMSs) for Center projects and programs, primarily the U.S. Nuclear Detonation Detection System’s Global Burst Detector (GBD) space payload the and the Office of Secure Transportation-sponsored Mobile Guardian Transporter (MGT) project. Join us to develop creative solutions to unique national security challenges!

On any given day, you may be called upon to:

• Serve as Quality’s management representative with other project and program management, partners, and stakeholders to ensure customer cost, schedule, performance, and quality requirements and expectations are met.
• Work with other management and staff to ensure Quality personnel are fully included in the programs they support.
• Lead the Center’s continuous improvement efforts to ensures compliance to program procedures & quality standards.
• Ensure the Center achieves and maintains external quality certifications, such as AS9100 and ISO9001.
• Lead Center Lean Six Sigma practices for laboratory spaces utilized across the Center in support of QMS activities.
• Lead cost/benefit analyses for standardizing Quality practices, processes, and tools, across Center programs.
• Coordinate recruitment, selection, development, performance assessment, and recognition of staff.
• Participate with the rest of the Center management team in Center operations, including strategic planning.

While the nature of the work requires a majority of onsite work, some degree of telework is possible. This position may require occasional travel for management engagement and support of Quality activities.

Salary Range:

$149,700 - $254,400

*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 relevant STEM field plus eight or more years of directly related experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of the job.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q clearance.

Qualifications We Desire:

• Two years of demonstrated leadership experience.
• Active DOE Q clearance.
• Experience managing high-rigor Quality programs.
• Experience meeting ISO9001 or AS9100D Quality requirements.
• Experience on large multi-organizational projects.
• Experience with complex aerospace design and production.
• Experience in Nuclear Deterrence design and production processes.

About Our Team:

We provide Center 6700’s capability for defining, implementing, maintaining, and continuously improving Quality Management Systems (QMSs) for Center projects and programs, primarily Global Burst Detector (GBD) and Mobile Guardian Transporter (MGT). The department interfaces with project and program teams, partners and stakeholders to ensure customer cost, schedule, performance, and quality requirements and expectations are met.

We lead the Center’s continuous improvement efforts and ensures compliance to program procedures & quality standards via the following: product and process evaluation activities, including compiling and analyzing relevant data to inform improvement approaches; shepherding technical insertion opportunities; participating in risk & root cause analyses; providing internal auditing via certified auditors; and providing lessons learned to ensure implementation of improved practices for future activities. The department also leads efforts to ensure the Center achieves and maintains external quality certifications, such as AS9100 and ISO9001.

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, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance 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 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: 693751

Job Family: RD

Regular/Temporary Position: R

Full/Part-Time Status: F

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.