Project-Program Director 4
- Req. Number: IRC143990
- Organization : ALDPI/Functional Performance Monitoring
- City, State: Los Alamos, New Mexico
- Salary: $170,600 - $295,400
- Recruiter Name: Robinson, Loren
- Recruiter Email: lrob@lanl.gov
What You Will Do
As the Project Program Director for the Plutonium Infrastructure Directorate, you will work directly with senior leadership to guarantee the safe, efficient, and accelerated delivery of a multi billion dollar capital construction portfolio that sustains the nation's plutonium pit production facilities.You will demonstrate the ability to deliver large, complex infrastructure projects on compressed schedules while maintaining safety, quality, and full regulatory compliance.A core part of the role is the integration of institutional resources: engineering, procurement, safety, work control, training, procurement, quality, operations, and project controls, by aligning these support organizations and removing barriers that could impede progress.You will design and embed performance metric dashboards into the project management system, using data, trend analysis, and interactive dashboards to surface emerging risks, performance gaps, and high impact issues early in the lifecycle.Through rigorous critical path management, milestone tracking, and schedule risk mitigation, you will keep the portfolio on time and on budget, providing transparent updates to the management team.Your strong communication and facilitation skills will bring diverse stakeholder groups together quickly to evaluate issues, make decisions, and drive corrective actions, ensuring continuous alignment with the Directorate's strategic Plutonium Mission.
In addition to overseeing schedule reliability, you will lead rapid issue investigations, quickly diagnosing complex execution problems, identifying root causes, and collaborating with engineering, construction, operations, quality, and other institutional partners to implement practical, high impact improvements.Your proven experience in cross functional problem solving will enable you to convene cross disciplinary teams that resolve constructability, design, procurement, and operational readiness risks before they affect construction.You will drive a culture of continuous improvement by leveraging metrics, lessons learned sessions, and performance reviews to elevate delivery reliability across all projects and programs.Direct line management responsibility for a matrixed staff drawn from line organizations will allow you to mentor and hold accountable the personnel who execute planning, tracking, and execution activities.By proactively identifying and mitigating risks through quantitative metrics and early stage readiness assessments, you will safeguard the schedule, cost, and safety outcomes of the portfolio.Ultimately, your leadership will ensure that the Directorate's infrastructure projects not only meet today's mission requirements but also leave a lasting legacy for National Security.
What You Need
Minimum Job Requirements:
Technical Leadership
Compliance and Security
Accelerated Project Execution
Institutional Resource Integration
Risk Identification Through Metrics
Rapid Issue Investigation and Improvement
Cross-Functional Problem Solving
Schedule Reliability and Critical Path Management
Stakeholder Alignment
Continuous Improvement and Performance Management
Clearance
Education
Desired Qualifications:
Project Work
Risk Mitigation
Government Relations
LANL
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 cover letter reflective of your relevant experience to the job requirements and desired skills stated above.
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.
Where You Will Work
Located in beautiful northern New Mexico, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security. Our generous benefits package includes:
§ PPO or High Deductible medical insurance with the same large nationwide network
§ Dental and vision insurance
§ Free basic life and disability insurance
§ Paid childbirth and parental leave
§ Award-winning 401(k) (6% matching plus 3.5% annually)
§ Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
§ Flexible schedules and time off (PTO and holidays)
§ Onsite gyms and wellness programs
§ Extensive relocation packages (outside a 50 mile radius)
Additional Details
Directive 206.2 - Employment with Triad requires a favorable decision by NNSA indicating employee is suitable under NNSA Supplemental Directive 206.2. Please note that this requirement applies only to citizens of the United States. Foreign nationals are subject to a similar requirement under DOE Order 142.3A.
Clearance: Q (Position will be cleared to this level). Selected applicants will be subject to a background investigation conducted by or on behalf of the Federal Government, and must meet eligibility requirements* for access to classified matter. This position requires a Q clearance, and obtaining such clearance requires US Citizenship except in extremely rare circumstances. Dependent upon the position, additional authorization to access classified information may be required, which may or may not be available to dual citizens. Receipt of a Q clearance and additional access authorization ultimately is a decision of the Federal Government and not of Triad.
*Eligibility requirements: To obtain a clearance, an individual must be at least 18 years of age; U.S. citizenship is required except in very limited circumstances. See DOE Order 472.2 for additional information.
New-Employment Drug Test: The Laboratory requires successful applicants to complete a new-employment drug test and maintains a substance abuse policy that includes random drug testing. Although New Mexico and other states have legalized the use of marijuana, use and possession of marijuana remain illegal under federal law. A positive drug test for marijuana will result in termination of employment, even if the use was pre-offer.
As the Project Program Director for the Plutonium Infrastructure Directorate, you will work directly with senior leadership to guarantee the safe, efficient, and accelerated delivery of a multi billion dollar capital construction portfolio that sustains the nation's plutonium pit production facilities.You will demonstrate the ability to deliver large, complex infrastructure projects on compressed schedules while maintaining safety, quality, and full regulatory compliance.A core part of the role is the integration of institutional resources: engineering, procurement, safety, work control, training, procurement, quality, operations, and project controls, by aligning these support organizations and removing barriers that could impede progress.You will design and embed performance metric dashboards into the project management system, using data, trend analysis, and interactive dashboards to surface emerging risks, performance gaps, and high impact issues early in the lifecycle.Through rigorous critical path management, milestone tracking, and schedule risk mitigation, you will keep the portfolio on time and on budget, providing transparent updates to the management team.Your strong communication and facilitation skills will bring diverse stakeholder groups together quickly to evaluate issues, make decisions, and drive corrective actions, ensuring continuous alignment with the Directorate's strategic Plutonium Mission.
In addition to overseeing schedule reliability, you will lead rapid issue investigations, quickly diagnosing complex execution problems, identifying root causes, and collaborating with engineering, construction, operations, quality, and other institutional partners to implement practical, high impact improvements.Your proven experience in cross functional problem solving will enable you to convene cross disciplinary teams that resolve constructability, design, procurement, and operational readiness risks before they affect construction.You will drive a culture of continuous improvement by leveraging metrics, lessons learned sessions, and performance reviews to elevate delivery reliability across all projects and programs.Direct line management responsibility for a matrixed staff drawn from line organizations will allow you to mentor and hold accountable the personnel who execute planning, tracking, and execution activities.By proactively identifying and mitigating risks through quantitative metrics and early stage readiness assessments, you will safeguard the schedule, cost, and safety outcomes of the portfolio.Ultimately, your leadership will ensure that the Directorate's infrastructure projects not only meet today's mission requirements but also leave a lasting legacy for National Security.
What You Need
Minimum Job Requirements:
Technical Leadership
- Successful experience as a leader or manager of projects with significant total project cost or complexity. This role demands a history of steering technical project organizations, encompassing strategic and tactical planning and execution, customer service excellence, project management rigor, continuous improvement initiatives, and oversight of critical management systems such as safety, security, configuration management, conduct of operations, and earned value management.
- The candidate must possess knowledge of design, construction, and transition to operations for highly complex endeavors, preferably within a nuclear operations environment. In addition, the role requires demonstrated expertise in project scheduling, cost estimation and control, and a solid familiarity with engineering processes and the production, review, and release of engineering drawing sets.
Compliance and Security
- Demonstrated experience developing and implementing plans or programs to meet or exceed contractual requirements, performance measures, regulations, and laws, including the proven ability to do so while operating within a highly sensitive national security environment.
Accelerated Project Execution
- Demonstrated ability to deliver large, complex capital or infrastructure projects on accelerated schedules while maintaining safety, quality, and regulatory compliance.
Institutional Resource Integration
- Experience coordinating projects that rely on institutional support organizations (engineering, procurement, safety, work control, quality, operations, and project controls).
- Ability to align project teams and institutional resources to remove barriers and enable reliable delivery.
Risk Identification Through Metrics
- Experience developing and implementing performance metrics within management systems to identify emerging risks, performance gaps, and high-impact issues early in the project lifecycle.
- Ability to use data, dashboards, and trend analysis to prioritize high-risk issues affecting schedule, cost, or execution readiness.
Rapid Issue Investigation and Improvement
- Demonstrated capability to analyze complex execution issues quickly, identify root causes, and work collaboratively with stakeholders to implement practical improvements.
Cross-Functional Problem Solving
- Skilled at facilitating cross-disciplinary problem solving with engineering, construction, operations, quality, and institutional partners to resolve issues and accelerate progress.
Schedule Reliability and Critical Path Management
- Strong understanding of critical path management, milestone tracking, and schedule risk mitigation for large infrastructure or institutional projects.
Stakeholder Alignment
- Strong communication and facilitation skills with the ability to bring stakeholders together quickly to evaluate issues, make decisions, and implement improvements.
Continuous Improvement and Performance Management
- Experience driving continuous improvement through metrics, lessons learned, and performance reviews to improve delivery reliability across projects and programs.
Clearance
- Applicants must have the ability to obtain and maintain DOE Q clearance, which requires US citizenship. Dual citizenship permitted in very limited circumstances.
Education
- Position requires a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in a relevant field of study, coupled with eight years related experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience directly related to the occupation.
Desired Qualifications:
Project Work
- Background and experience in all aspects of Engineering, Procurement, and Construction projects preferred.
Risk Mitigation
- Ability to identify constructability, design, procurement, and operational readiness risks early and implement mitigation strategies before they impact execution.
Government Relations
- Successful record of assisting in the development of complex institutional messages necessary to communicate to federal, state and local government leaders. Experience within NNSA complex under DOE O 413.3B requirements preferred.
LANL
- Demonstrated experience interfacing with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) management and a broad knowledge of current LANL operations and activities.
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 cover letter reflective of your relevant experience to the job requirements and desired skills stated above.
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.
Where You Will Work
Located in beautiful northern New Mexico, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security. Our generous benefits package includes:
§ PPO or High Deductible medical insurance with the same large nationwide network
§ Dental and vision insurance
§ Free basic life and disability insurance
§ Paid childbirth and parental leave
§ Award-winning 401(k) (6% matching plus 3.5% annually)
§ Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
§ Flexible schedules and time off (PTO and holidays)
§ Onsite gyms and wellness programs
§ Extensive relocation packages (outside a 50 mile radius)
Additional Details
Directive 206.2 - Employment with Triad requires a favorable decision by NNSA indicating employee is suitable under NNSA Supplemental Directive 206.2. Please note that this requirement applies only to citizens of the United States. Foreign nationals are subject to a similar requirement under DOE Order 142.3A.
Clearance: Q (Position will be cleared to this level). Selected applicants will be subject to a background investigation conducted by or on behalf of the Federal Government, and must meet eligibility requirements* for access to classified matter. This position requires a Q clearance, and obtaining such clearance requires US Citizenship except in extremely rare circumstances. Dependent upon the position, additional authorization to access classified information may be required, which may or may not be available to dual citizens. Receipt of a Q clearance and additional access authorization ultimately is a decision of the Federal Government and not of Triad.
*Eligibility requirements: To obtain a clearance, an individual must be at least 18 years of age; U.S. citizenship is required except in very limited circumstances. See DOE Order 472.2 for additional information.
New-Employment Drug Test: The Laboratory requires successful applicants to complete a new-employment drug test and maintains a substance abuse policy that includes random drug testing. Although New Mexico and other states have legalized the use of marijuana, use and possession of marijuana remain illegal under federal law. A positive drug test for marijuana will result in termination of employment, even if the use was pre-offer.
