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Facilities Team Lead - Mechanical Systems - Onsite

AT Sandia National Laboratories
Sandia National Laboratories

Facilities Team Lead - Mechanical Systems - Onsite

Albuquerque, NM

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

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What Your Job Will Be Like:

Are you passionate about your work and dream of using innovative facilities to deliver solutions? We are seeking a Team Lead, Facilities to join our team!

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

  • Manage the execution of activity level work performed by mechanical represented employees. Schedule and assign work.
  • Team with the maintenance planning department and ensure that "the right work at the right time" is being planned and implemented.
  • Ensure that all technical work documents are being adhered to.
  • Ensure that all Environmental, safety, and Health requirements are being adhered to and that work is being done safely.
  • Work closely with operations engineers, technologists, project managers and construction managers.
  • Perform necessary administrative duties such as timecard approvals, employee evaluations, resolve behavioral issues, address grievances, perform annual employee evaluations, approve timecards, etc.
  • Serves as first responder to analyze and assess system condition during outages and after hours; and coordinates and directs a response team to make the system operational.
  • Provides system operation and reliability data to system engineers, ensuring reliability and performance, and recommends technical improvements to processes.
  • Work with peers to develop streamlined processes to enhance maintenance functions.

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite 100%.

This position requires spending significant amounts of time in the field in order to accomplish many of the duties outlined above.This position also requires selected candidates to be rotated into the swing shift hours and periodically perform on-call duties during non-standard hours.

Salary Range:

$95,400 - $157,500

*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:

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline plus five (5) years of relevant exempt work experience; OR equivalent combination of relevant education and experience in the mechanical trades
  • Ability to obtain and maintain an active DOE L-level security clearance.

Qualifications We Desire:

  • Experience working in the HVAC industry.
  • 5 to 10 years' experience working with a Work Planning and Control system such as Maximo.
  • 5 years' experience as a supervisor, team leader, or foreman; working with represented personnel and collective bargaining agreements.
  • Experience working with clean room HVAC systems.
  • Knowledge of, and experience working with, the Sandia National Laboratories Emergency Operations Center.
  • Journeyman license, Associate's degree, Bachelor degree, Master's degree, or PhD. Knowledge of Sandia National Laboratories policies and procedures.
  • Experience with built-up air handling systems, chilled water loops, chillers, and heating water systems.

About Our Team:

Department 4844, Mechanical Services, operates and provides preventive and corrective maintenance for mechanical systems associated with buildings and infrastructure systems at Sandia-NM. This department also provides heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) control, via the Facility Control System, to select buildings at Sandia-NM and Sandia-CA.

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.

Essential Functions:

If offered the position, you may be required to demonstrate your fitness to perform certain physical aspects of the position, including lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling.

Job ID: 694541

Job Family: FA

Regular/Temporary Position: R

Full/Part-Time Status: F

Client-provided location(s): Albuquerque, NM, USA
Job ID: Sandia-EC939B1815674A6D9C8F652D33CF8406
Employment Type: Other