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

Lead an ES&H performance assurance event management/analysis program.

Your duties may include:

• Provide daily guidance, tasking, and leadership to ESH professionals and matrix partners supporting the program area, including leading the program vision with alignment to other ESH and Corporate programs to achieve assurance objectives and outcomes.
• Provide technical support and direction to monitor the program area(s), and assign resources, as appropriate, to enable program success.
• Serve as a causal analyst to evaluate complex system issues, identify compensatory measures, and recommend corrective actions that will drive sustaining performance improvement.
• Participate in and/or facilitate the ESH occurrence/event/issue reporting and tracking processes.
• Participate in and facilitate event fact finding and causal analyses.
• Write fact-finding and causal analysis reports.
• Support ES&H performance assurance, which includes, but is not limited to: assessments, measures/metrics, occurrence management, issues management, and trending analysis.
• Work to mentor and develop technical competencies for new or less experience team members.
• Serve as the corporate authority and subject matter expert for corporate level processes.
• Document and track system-level performance requirements and develop acceptance criteria for the system and any subsystems.
• Employ a structured system approach that models the interactions between all components of the performance assurance system and ensures integration.
• Drive progress and usher in periods of change by inspiring employees, earning trust for new ideas, and fostering confidence among the team and other stakeholders.
• Lead change by using engineering and technical judgement to establish methodologies and approaches to improve or solve problems (reduce risk) of significant and unusual complexity through use of ingenuity and innovation.
• Lead cross-functional teams to facilitate implementation of improvements aligned with mission and strategic objectives.
• Document and track project risks and interfaces with stakeholders to develop mitigation strategies and contingency plans.
• Facilitate and participate in assessment result causal analyses efforts.
• Provide Performance Assurance Program status reports and programmatic data to executive leadership on various frequencies, as requested.
• Maintain relationships with DOE program oversight at headquarters and the Sandia Field Office, and with colleagues at SNL and other DOE sites.
• Use customer service skills, employ a consultative approach when providing guidance, and be able to make recommendations based on requirements and circumstances.
• Collaborate with partners and stakeholders' labs wide to ensure effective implementation and integration of ES&H Performance Assurance processes and applications.
• Using engineering or related technical expertise work with the stakeholders to define and negotiate assurance system requirements that enable mission function and performance; develop assurance system conceptual designs to meet those requirements; and define the necessary interfaces to realize the designed system.
• Apply expertise and experience in one or more engineering or related disciplines to make judgments crucial to the delivery of the work product through activities such as system-level design analysis; defining assurance system-level performance requirements; developing approaches for subsystems; and evaluating competing characteristics between system elements to determine the most effective integrated solution.

Other duties as assigned..

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

Salary Range

$109,300 - $217,400

*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 in a STEM discipline or other relevant area, plus (8) or more years of relevant experience or combination of education and experience.
• Ability to make decisions requiring scientific, engineering, and programmatic judgement.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance.

Qualifications We Desire

• Demonstrated verbal and written communications.
• Demonstrated customer service skills.
• Demonstrated experience in highly dynamic environment undergoing changes.
• Must have careful attention to detail and be process oriented to drive consistent results.
• Ability to navigate change and competing priorities with successful outcomes.
• Proven track record of addressing large-scale engineering and scientific challenges to achieve approaches that benefit the team and the project.
• Must have careful attention to detail and be process oriented to drive consistent results.
• Ability to navigate change and competing priorities with successful outcomes.
• Proven track record of addressing large-scale challenges to achieve approaches that benefit the team and the project.

About Our Team

The ES&H Assurance organization is responsible for providing an operating framework for implementing the prime contract and regulatory required ES&H elements of the Sandia Contractor Assurance System. This system is used to identify and manage risk, monitor performance, identify deficiencies and opportunities for improvement, report deficiencies to the accountable managers, take preventive or corrective actions to improve performance, and share lessons learned for the ES&H functional area.

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.