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:

Power Sources Technology Group (PSTG) is seeking a Domain Chief Engineer (DCE) to provide an independent, central point of contact for expertise on Power Sources across the lifecycle for multiple energy storage technologies. The DCE is a new role at the Senior Scientist/Engineer level and at its heart the PSTG DCE role is to:

• Be a technical voice for Power Sources to ensure adequacy and completeness of domain product technical requirements and performance.
• Be a resource to PRTs and leadership on the reasonableness and adequacy of formal requirements and other technical asks from our customers
• Provide an expert voice to challenge and validate technical design decisions within PSTG through deep involvement with design teams, design reviews, and peer reviews.
• Serve as technical authority to ensure adequacy of engineering/design reviews as assigned by the Center Director.
• Support teams within PSTG to ensure technical decisions are sound, risk informed, and balanced with schedule and cost.
• Advise PSTG leadership to drive sound, risk-based decision making.
• Coordinate technical decisions across Power Sources and affected program elements.
• Regularly engage with Program Chief Engineers and organizational lines to communicate information, identify and address risks, and resolve concerns.
• Identify, develop, and mentor next generation Power Sources staff

In addition to this, a DCE for PSTG would also:

• Partner with Technology Maturation teams internal and external to PSTG, Systems, and Next Level Assemblies to help shape and mature technology and production capability roadmaps to best position PSTG to meet future needs
• Engage with Corporate initiatives such as the Unleash Excellence Initiative and Digital Engineering to help guide PSTG implementation
• Encourage tighter integration of Design for Manufacturing|Manufacturing for Design into the fabric of PSTG’s design, production, and surveillance practices
• Drive changes in qualification philosophy to make better use of evidence beyond testing data (modeling and simulation, functional subsets of hardware, similitude, etc…)

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

Salary Range:

$175,100 - $297,800

*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 relevant STEM discipline plus 15 or more years of experience
• Twelve or more years of relevant ND experience, with a minimum of 5 of those years at the Distinguished or equivalent level
• Leadership experience in the design and development of battery and power source products and components
• Direct experience interfacing and managing stakeholder relationships
• A track record of mentorship or other methods of staff level career development efforts
• Current and active DOE Q security clearance

Qualifications We Desire:

• Master’s degree and/or PhD in a relevant STEM discipline
• Experience in the entire Nuclear Weapon Phase X process (concept development, design, development, production, and stockpile sustainment) with PSTG product
• Experience working high profile issue resolution
• A broad network within the ND community, S&T community, and/or the SPP community
• Prior or existing relationships with NNSA and with DoD elements supporting ND modernization programs

About Our Team:

The Power Sources Technology Group, 7540, utilizes the latest scientific and engineering technologies to perform research, design, development and production of power sources used for NNSA, DoD, DOE, NASA and commercial applications. A key role of this organization is to advance power source technologies to meet both current and future energy needs. The Power Sources Technologies Group provides cradle to grave research, engineering design/development and production of thermal batteries, thermoelectrics, lithium primary and secondary batteries, novel battery chemistries, component and materials surveillance, as well as battery abuse testing research. Power source technology is a growth area both within the Nuclear Weapons PMU and the Energy, Climate and Infrastructure Security (ECIS) PMU.

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:

Position requires a Department of Energy (DOE) Q security clearance to start, or equivalent active security clearance with another U.S. government agency (e.g., DOD). Sandia is required by DOE directive 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 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: 694137

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.