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:

Are you passionate about hands-on engineering and dream of utilizing and developing state-of-the-art equipment and systems to validate the Nation’s most critical weapon systems? You could be the motivated measurement and test engineer that we are seeking to join our dynamic team of experimentalists at the Nation’s most capable, established and exciting experimental complex!

As a member of the Mechanical Environments Department in the Validation and Qualification Sciences Group, you will join a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, designers, test operation teams, business partners and technicians to develop, plan, design, analyze, schedule, implement, and document critical Mass Properties (MP) and other Sensor Measurements for our Nations Nuclear Deterrent components and systems. You will apply scientific theories and laws along with engineering methods and judgment to lead, coordinate and record critical data necessary to qualify systems for flight.

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

• Work with experienced staff and technologists, ES&H partners, and other team members to ensure that customer’s objectives are safely met on time and within budget while following all corporate and Group Work Planning and Controls requirements.
• Work with Nuclear Deterrent System Teams to develop, design, and implement precision hardware for extremely sensitive, high accuracy MP equipment.
• Lead project development and measurement execution efforts with rigging and hoisting design and application, implement mass corrections to balance flight systems, and develop innovative systems and techniques to advance Sandia’s leadership in the field of experimental measurement.
• Travel will be required (less than 25%).
• Official title will be R&D Mechanical Engineer.

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite.

Join our team and apply your technical talents, creativity, and judgment to support Sandia’s national security missions!

Salary Range:

$95,400 - $185,700

*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 of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Technology or equivalent STEM degree and 3 years’ experience with engineering measurement and associated technologies
• Ability to obtain a DOE Q Clearance

Qualifications We Desire:

• Experience with the design and manufacturing of handling or mounting hardware
• Experience with rigging, hoisting and crane operations
• Experience with interpretation, analysis and reporting of measured data
• Experience with large scale field experiments or large test systems
• Ability to apply knowledge and ideas to solve engineering problems
• Experience with scheduling and coordination of multiple projects and people

About Our Team:

The Validation and Qualification Sciences Group is responsible for large-scale experimental activities located in TAIII on Kirtland Air Force Base. The Mechanical Environments department is one of six departments within the group with the responsibility for developing and delivering experiments to provide information on the performance, safety, and reliability of nuclear weapons and other systems and to acquire data to validate computational simulations of these events. The Mechanical Environments department owns and operates Four Major Environmental Testing Facilities/Capabilities:

• Mass Properties Measurements
• The Centrifuge/Superfuge Complex
• The Mechanical Shock Complex
• The Water Impact/Drop Tower Complex

(http://www.sandia.gov/vqsec/INDEX.html ). Group 1530 is a significant contributor to Sandia’s Nuclear Weapons Stewardship Mission and serves the greater Sandia community and external partners per federal policies.

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: 694355

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.