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What Your Job Will Be Like:

This Senior Scientist/Senior Engineer Level job posting is to fill the Program Chief Engineer role (job title: R&D S&E Systems Engineer) for the Nuclear Armed Sea Launched Cruise Missile (SLCM-N) Reuse Program.

The Program Chief Engineer (PCE) partners with the system senior manager and supports the Center 8200 Director in leading the Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) System Integrator and Design Agency effort for the program. The PCE's specific leadership roles include system integration, reuse design optimization and themes, qualification basis and efficiency, anomaly resolution, and technical trades in coordination with sites across the Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE), supported by a team of multi-faceted, discipline specific technical leadership on the program. The role enables technically informed and risk-based program decisions, establishment of a technical robust design that maximizes reuse, establishment of an appropriate and defensible qualification program, knowledge base assessment and development, and facilitation of internal and external peer review approaches for technical questions and challenges. The SLCM-N PCE will ensure a sound technical reuse strategy that meets requirements, while meeting the short schedule and balancing risk. The SLCM-N PCE will also partner with other PCEs and Domain Chief Engineers (DCE) to assure consistency and excellence in technical deliverables while assuring timeliness and responsiveness of technical decisions.

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

• Own technical decision authority for the System, enabled by the system engineering team within cost and schedule constraints.
• Serve as the Sandia National Laboratories point of contact for technical integration across the NSE.
• Serve as technical point of contact for assigned weapon program's external stakeholders.
• Identify, develop, and mentor next generation weaponeers/staff with a focus on future Chief Engineers.
• Engagement in review and support of other nuclear deterrence (ND) system integration activities as needed and in coordination with 8200 Director and Chief Engineer Network.

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite in Livermore, CA or Albuquerque, NM.

Ability and willingness to travel, up to 25%, required.

Salary Range:

$219,500 - $373,400

*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 relevant discipline plus 15 or more years of directly related experience; or Master's degree in relevant discipline plus 11 years directly related experience; or PhD in relevant discipline plus 7 years directly related experience. Equivalent experience in lieu of degrees must be engineering or scientific experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform independent research and development.
• Direct technical experience in modernization programs for nuclear weapons systems, subsystems, surveillance, production, and/or components.
• Active DOE Q-level security clearance or equivalent DoD Top Secret level security clearance; and willingness and ability to obtain and maintain additional clearances as required, which may require a polygraph test.

Qualifications We Desire:

• A broad network within Sandia's ND weapons community including the system technical leadership of other modernization programs.
• Broad understanding of the Sandia ND mission and its interfaces and responsibilities with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the NSE, particularly LANL, KCNSC, and Pantex.
• Experience conceiving, developing, and leading cross-organizational technical programs/ projects/teams.
• Prior or existing working relationships with NNSA and with DoD elements supporting modernization programs.
• Outstanding organizational and briefing skills to effectively communicate with a broad range of audiences including high-level customers and SNL executive leadership.

About Our Team:

The SLCM-N System Engineering team is responsible for the System Engineering and Integration of the warhead associated with the Nuclear Armed Sea Launched Cruise Missile program. In close collaboration with NNSA and U.S. Navy customers, and the Nuclear Security Enterprise, the department works to design and deliver critical assets to strength our Nuclear Deterrence Mission.

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: 695822

Job Family: RD

Regular/Temporary Position: R

Full/Part-Time Status: F