Senior/Principal Operations and Engineering Lead - Facilities IT Systems, Hybrid

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 your work and want to join a dynamic team that solves challenging issues? If so, you could be the highly motivated Operations and Engineering Lead we seek to create a strategic vision for Facilities Information Technology systems.

This role includes leading strategic IT projects with high impact, working with ambiguous and complex structures; as well as leaders, customers, and IT partners within centers 4100, 4700, 4900, and 8540 to plan, prioritize, and coordinate Facilities information technology projects. You will use your experience in technical systems integration and systems engineering tools and approaches: modeling, simulation, and visualization.

This role is a strategic liaison between the Sandia Facilities teams and the corporate IT program. You capture customer needs, develop requirements, and work in strong partnership with IT to drive projects to completion. You will implement best practices that improve our return on technology investment.

The qualified individual will be expected to lead and manage the development of small and large technology projects with direct impact on the core enterprise operations and processes.

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

• Plan and direct engineering and technical facilities projects for internal and external customers, coordinating as required with work performed in other internal and external organizations.

• Define requirements, scope, schedules, cost estimates, and work that support mission objectives.

• Apply standard Project Management principles and techniques.

• Identify potential facilities operational risks, develops risk mitigation strategies and corrective actions, and recommends risk acceptance or avoidance for facilities operations.

• Provide leadership and tactical planning for execution of projects and apply technical knowledge to achieve project objectives and work.

• Find opportunities to streamline or automate processes with data systems that create efficient workflow and service delivery.

• Review and validate project requirements with customers.

• Lead status meetings to review and report project progress and health.

• Ensure program/project alignment to strategic objectives.

• Follow established project management, governance, and enabling processes.

• Gather, document, and validate Facilities system requirements including project scope, cost, schedule, and quality.

• Prioritize and run multiple projects simultaneously and coordinate with corporate entities to provide solutions to issues in a timely manner.

• Communicate significant project initiatives and accomplishments.

• Conduct data analysis, modeling, and visualization.

• Ensure programs/project align to performance assurance, risk management, and strategic objectives.

• Recommend addition, expansion, or discontinuance of projects.

  The selected applicant can work a combination of onsite and offsite work. The selected applicant must live within a reasonable distance for commuting to the assigned work location when necessary.

Salary Range:

$99,400 - $193,600

*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 in relevant field plus 6 years of relevant experience

• Experience using JIRA software to organize work, create project milestones, map dependencies, or link goals to work.

• Experience in Project Management principles.

• Ability to obtain and maintain an active DOE Q-level security clearance.

Qualifications We Desire:

• Project Management Certification (PMP).

• Business Process Management (BPM), Cyber Security, and Systems Administration experience.

• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills.

• Demonstrated ability to team across disciplines.

• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.

• Ability to model behaviors that reflect Sandia's core values.

• Lean Six Sigma Green or Black Belt.

• Familiar with Sandia Performance Assurance and Risk Management.

• Ability to lead, coordinate, and prioritize work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

• Possess knowledge and experience in multiple, current information systems relevant to facilities operations (e.g., Maximo, TRIRIGA, EIMS/FileNet, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Newforma).

• Familiar with Sandia corporate information tools, and how the tools may be demonstrated to contribute to business operations.

• Ability to monitor and manage operation budgets, including discretionary spending plans.

About Our Team:

The Facilities and Infrastructure Systems and Analytics department is responsible for data engineering, analytics, technology strategy, and IT portfolio management. We drive operational excellence by applying modern systems engineering and analytical methods to our technology systems and applications. We steward the Facilities IT portfolio by providing centralized management of technology investments, projects, systems, and activities in service of strategic objectives. Our data analytics team applies the science of analyzing raw data to guide and inform operational health, performance, and strategic decision-making. We establish the processes and systems required to assess value, cost, risk, and performance of IT investments. We partner with a diverse set of stakeholders and subject matter experts to select and invest in high-value projects that are synchronized with corporate goals and business.

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: 694847

Job Family: FA

Regular/Temporary Position: R

Full/Part-Time Status: F