Cleared Team Leader R&D S&E - Power Sources Capabilities and Execution, Onsite

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What Your Job Will Be Like:

We are seeking a Team Lead R&D S&E for the Power Sources Technology Group (PSTG) to oversee activities occurring across our facilities, which provide key capabilities for the PSTG outside of our primary building 894. This job will work with the members of the workforce within our Group to execute on programs across a wide variety of Sandia mission areas. You will participate in the PSTG management teams efforts to identify and carry out tactical efforts to improve group and capability operations. You will work with the management team to ensures that customer needs are satisfied by coordinating specific deliverables, research objectives, project plans, budgets, structures, schedules, testing priorities, and staffing requirements. You will help to direct work that is rooted in the fundamentals of science and engineering and requires a deep understanding of engineering and scientific principles. This position will contribute to the execution of Sandia's scientific programs from fundamental research through development and qualification of electrochemical energy storage technologies.

On any given day, the successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Managing personnel who conduct the daily operations of the PSTG operations that are not co-located with primary location. This includes the Battery Test Facility (BTF), the Agile Facility, and the Battery Abuse Testing Laboratory (BATLab)
• Engage engineers, technologists, students, and collaborators associated with our programs to deliver on multi discipline programs and guide those teams towards successful execution.
• Serve as a representative for Power Sources to represent our work to customers and stakeholders.
• Oversee (or participating in) the application of engineering methods used within scientific and engineering disciplines to develop or demonstrate new designs, machines, products, processes, and fundamental research.
• Provide leadership for ensuring hardware, experiments, and safety expectations are met for several capabilities within the technology group.
• Advocate for our team, their expertise, and capabilities as we conduct business development activities to grow the group portfolio
• Cultivate and build strategic partnerships with a wide and technically diverse customer base across the laboratory and sister National Labs in establishing technical work to be executed within the department.
• Generate and perform in performance reviews and team evaluations in partnership with the department manager.
• Lead the team in updating and configuration of PHS, OP's and Work Planning & control WP&C documentation.
• Be accountable as a WP&C Work Planner to ensure work acceptance, cost estimations, procurements, planning of large projects, engineering support, customer interface, work schedules to customers Security, Safety, Quality requirements.
  
  Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite.

Salary Range:

$133,800 - $227,500

*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:

• Master's degree in a relevant science, technology, engineering, or mathematics discipline plus 1 or more years of relevant scientific and/or engineering experience or a Bachelor's degree plus 5 or more years of relevant scientific and/or engineering experience; or equivalent combination of education/experience.
• Experience in a scientific or engineering field that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to oversee and lead independent research and development operations.
• Active DOE Q-level (or DOD equivalent) security clearance.

Qualifications We Desire:

• Research and Development experience in electrochemical energy storage or a closely related field.
• Prior experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with multiple disciplines and across a varied customer set.
• Prior experience in a technical project leadership role.
• Prior experience as a team lead or manager.
• Demonstrated ability to team with others to produce successful outcomes.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and customer service skills.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Experience in leading activities within the SNL WPC process.
• Demonstrated experience leading laboratory operations and hazardous activity level work.
• Expertise in the execution of fundamental research programs.
• Ability to successfully manage and complete multiple programs and projects.
• A commitment to a culture of safety and security.

About Our Team:

The Power Sources Research and Development Department develops thermal batteries, primary and rechargeable lithium batteries, hybrid power sources, and double layer capacitors for our customers in the DOE, the military, industry, and other Sandia organizations. The Department endeavors to build on a leadership position in developing lithium primary and secondary batteries as well as established leadership for thermal batteries. In collaboration with others, we develop new power source concepts and materials leading to component development for specific applications. Our battery safety research and abuse testing laboratories are state-of-the-art and help us understand battery failures and lead our engineering efforts to produce abuse tolerant systems for nuclear weapons and other defense and consumer applications that include electric and hybrid-electric vehicles and utility grid energy storage. To accomplish these missions, Department personnel perform applied research, engineering design, hardware development, cell prototyping and fabrication, safety evaluation, and testing. Our personnel also partner with industrial battery manufacturers and other government agencies to develop prototype and final battery hardware. Technology transfer through CRADAs and other industrial collaborations is actively pursued.

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: 695041

Job Family: RD

Regular/Temporary Position: R

Full/Part-Time Status: F