LIP D&D Shift Management (Manager of Projects 3/4)

Los Alamos National Laboratory; Los Alamos (NM); On-site; USD 128,000 - 238,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance (PPO or HDHP)

Dental and vision insurance

Life and disability insurance

Paid time off (PTO) and holidays

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, NM, seeks a Manager of Projects 3/4 to oversee decontamination and decommissioning programs. You will lead planning, scheduling, resources, and safety across multiple teams, including off-normal shifts, with accountability for delivery and compliance.

Responsibilities include coordinating readiness, reporting, and stakeholder communications, while developing project managers and maintaining strict security and safety standards within a highly

Qualifications

• Technical leadership demonstrated leading multidisciplinary teams on complex projects in regulated environments.
• Strong management skills including staffing, coaching, and performance feedback.
• Knowledge of project planning, scheduling, risk management, and DOE style project controls.
• Ability to collaborate across programs and manage cross-organizational priorities.
• Proven leadership in personnel management, budgeting, and delivery.
• Excellent written and verbal communication at senior levels.
• Experience developing plans to meet regulatory requirements in sensitive environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide safety, scheduling, and resource oversight for D&D projects within a nuclear facility.
• Coordinate readiness reviews, training, and prerequisites before field execution.
• Oversee shift work, prioritize tasks, and manage multi-team execution across off-normal shifts.
• Track costs, schedules, and risks; report to leadership and stakeholders.
• Lead project managers and teams, ensuring compliance and timely closeout of projects.
• Promote continuous improvement and lessons learned across programs.

Skills

Technical Leadership

Management

Technical Excellence

Collaboration

Personal Leadership

Communication

Compliance and Security

Job description

What You Will Do

The Associate Laboratory Directorate for Plutonium Infrastructure (ALDPI) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) supports the infrastructure required to meet plutonium pit production deliverables. Within ALDPI, LIP-DD Decontamination & Decommissioning is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing the removal of gloveboxes and associated systems within TA-55. This work supports Line-Item installation projects and prepares the Laboratory for its new role in weapons production.

You will provide management oversight for safe, secure, and compliant D&D execution within an operating nuclear facility. Responsibilities include field execution oversight, integrated scheduling, resource utilization, performance reporting, and project closeout to prepare space for follow-on installations. During assigned off-normal shifts, including nights and weekends, you will provide management oversight across multiple organizations and projects, establish execution priorities, address resource and work-area conflicts, and maintain effective shift turnover. This position reports to a Project-Program Director or MOP 5 within LIP-DD.

This position will be filled at either the Manager of Projects 3 (MOP3) or Manager of Projects 4 (MOP4) level, depending on the qualifications of the selected candidate. Candidates selected at the MOP4 level will assume the additional responsibilities described below.

Manager of Projects 3 ($128,000-$215,900)

As a MOP3, you will lead integrated planning, work readiness, scheduling, resource management, and execution oversight for assigned LIP-DD projects. You may serve as the lead project manager and as line manager for deployed project managers and other assigned personnel. During assigned off-normal shifts, you will provide management oversight of work performed by multiple organizations and project teams within your assigned authority. Key responsibilities include:

• Safety and compliance: Implement Integrated Safety Management (ISM) line management responsibilities by integrating safety, security, environmental protection, and quality into work planning and execution. Maintain field engagement, encourage a questioning attitude, address deficiencies, and pause or stop work when conditions or requirements warrant.
• Work readiness: Ensure work proceeds under approved Integrated Work Documents (IWDs), established controls, and applicable facility requirements using trained and qualified personnel. Coordinate readiness reviews and resolve prerequisites before field execution.
• Scheduling and resource reporting: Develop and manage project scope, schedules, resources, costs, risks, and execution plans. Track shift, daily, and weekly resource utilization and work progress; identify cost and schedule variances; and implement or direct corrective actions. Provide accurate status, resource availability, chargeability, and forecast reports to management and stakeholders.
• Shift management oversight: Provide management oversight across multiple organizations and projects during assigned off-normal shifts, including nights and weekends. Establish shift priorities, monitor field execution, resolve resource and work-area conflicts, and direct actions within assigned authority. Escalate unresolved issues to Shift Oversight Management or the designated management chain, and provide clear turnover on work status, controls, constraints, and pending decisions.
• Execution constraints and dependencies: Maintain visibility of engineering, procurement, work control, nuclear material management, waste management, and installation dependencies that affect execution. Monitor prerequisite completion, identify constraints, assign resolution actions within delegated authority, and elevate issues that threaten safe execution or schedule commitments.
• Personnel management: Manage assigned personnel responsibilities, including hiring and onboarding, work assignments, headcount and budget forecasting, training, continuous performance feedback, annual performance discussions, career development, and recognition.
• Project completion: Oversee removal documentation, configuration management status, waste disposition interfaces, and project closeout. Verify completion status and report remaining conditions affecting follow-on installation work.
• Management practices and continuous improvement: Apply Laboratory policies, procedures, and applicable project requirements. Promote repeatable planning and execution practices, share lessons learned, and improve customer service and delivery performance.

Additional Responsibilities for Manager of Projects 4 ($141,500-$238,300)

In addition to the MOP3 responsibilities, a MOP4 will provide broader management oversight and exercise greater independent judgment across multiple complex or interdependent LIP-DD projects and organizational work fronts. The MOP4 will lead integrated scheduling and resource reporting and provide management oversight across assigned organizations and projects during off-normal shifts. Responsibilities include:

• Develop integrated execution strategies, field schedules, and portfolio priorities that align D&D removals, facility availability, waste disposition, and installation milestones. Evaluate work sequencing and schedule logic, resolve conflicting priorities, and recommend recovery strategies when execution threatens delivery commitments.
• Lead and develop project managers and assigned execution teams across competing work fronts. Provide management oversight across multiple organizations and projects during assigned off-normal shifts; establish execution priorities, resolve resource tradeoffs, and direct or recommend changes to staffing, sequencing, or execution methods within delegated authority.
• Track shift, daily, and weekly resource utilization across assigned organizations and projects. Produce executive reports on resource health, availability, utilization, and chargeability, together with cost, schedule, and staffing forecasts. Maintain current resource data and conduct periodic checks of reporting accuracy and data integrity.
• Verify coding accuracy and logic integrity of field execution schedules. Produce specialized scheduling products and forecast reports as assigned, identify schedule conflicts and resource gaps, and provide practical solutions to project management. Escalate unresolved conflicts to Shift Oversight Management with recommended actions.
• Establish and refine scheduling workflows, reporting methods, desk instructions, and the management business rhythm. Lead regular schedule and resource reviews, cross-train team members, and introduce appropriate automation and continuous improvements. Present performance, risks, and recommended actions to Shift Oversight Management, senior leadership, and customers.

What You Need

Minimum Job Requirements for Manager of Projects 3

Technical Leadership Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary teams responsible for planning, coordinating, or executing complex projects in nuclear facilities or other highly regulated, hazardous operating environments. Experience establishing priorities, assigning resources, resolving execution constraints, managing scope changes and project risks, and supervising or developing personnel.

Management Demonstrated ability to provide strong leadership, mentorship, prioritization, and management of assigned employees in a collaborative and participative environment to build strong teams. Demonstrated experience and skill developing and implementing organizational strategies and objectives.

Technical Excellence Demonstrated knowledge of project planning and execution, including scope development, schedule integration, resource planning, cost monitoring, risk management, work readiness, and project closeout. Experience tracking work progress and resource utilization, preparing management reports, and identifying performance variances. Ability to incorporate engineering, procurement, work control, facility operations, safety, and waste management requirements into executable project plans. Experience applying DOE O 413.3B or an equivalent structured project management framework.

Collaboration and Coalition Building Demonstrated ability to maintain effective customer and cross-organizational working relationships, establish clear priorities and responsibilities, and resolve execution issues. Experience working with program, project, and line management to address constraints while maintaining open communication, mutual trust, and accountability.

Personal Leadership Demonstrated leadership in personnel management, customer engagement, and financial and schedule management. Experience developing, monitoring, and coordinating project scope, resources, costs, and schedules; identifying performance variances; and implementing or coordinating corrective actions.

Communication Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills, including communicating project status, risks, resource needs, and corrective actions to senior management and project stakeholders and supporting responses to regulatory inquiries.

Compliance and Security Demonstrated experience developing and implementing plans or programs to meet or exceed contractual requirements, performance measures, regulations, and laws, including the proven ability to do so while operating within a highly sensitive national security environment.

Additional Minimum Job Requirements for Manager of Projects 4

Advanced Technical Leadership Demonstrated experience independently leading multiple complex projects or interdependent work fronts in nuclear facilities or other highly regulated, hazardous operating environments. Experience setting execution strategy, directing project managers or multidisciplinary teams, and resolving complex risks and organizational interfaces.

Advanced Project Integration Advanced knowledge of engineering, procurement, work control, field execution, performance assurance, and project closeout, including their dependencies and applicable industry standards. Demonstrated experience developing and evaluating integrated field schedules, identifying logic or coding issues, and assessing readiness and execution impacts across competing projects and work fronts.

Financial and Resource Management Strong understanding of financial analysis, integrated scheduling, cost and schedule forecasting, and resource planning. Demonstrated experience reporting resource utilization, availability, and chargeability; evaluating schedule logic and data integrity; resolving competing resource demands; and leading corrective actions or recovery plans across multiple projects.

Organizational Leadership and Customer Relations Demonstrated experience providing management oversight across multiple organizations or project teams, including shift execution or other complex operating conditions. Experience developing organizational strategies, establishing consistent scheduling and reporting practices, negotiating priorities, resolving conflicts, developing personnel, and communicating decisions and recommendations to senior management and customers.

Education and Experience

Manager of Projects 3: Position requires a bachelor's degree in a related field from an accredited institution and 5 years of related experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience directly related to the occupation.

Manager of Projects 4: Position requires a bachelor's degree in a related field from an accredited institution and 8 years of related experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience directly related to the occupation.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience supporting decontamination and decommissioning, glovebox or associated system removal, or installation activities in an operating nuclear facility.
• Familiarity with TA-55/PF-4 operations, work authorization processes, and interfaces with facility operations and installation project teams.
• Experience coordinating radiological protection, nuclear criticality safety, nuclear material control and accountability, safeguards and security, and waste management requirements.
• Experience with IWDs, configuration management, readiness activities, resource and schedule reporting, waste disposition interfaces, and project closeout.
• Experience overseeing work across multiple organizations or projects during nights, weekends, or other off-normal shifts, including shift turnover, resource allocation, management reporting, and escalation of execution issues.
• Advanced understanding of applicable prime contract requirements and experience improving project execution practices.
• An advanced degree in engineering, construction management, project management, environmental management, or a related discipline.
• Professional certification such as PMP, PMI-SP, PMI-RMP, PE, CCM, Six Sigma/Lean, or a related credential.
• Active DOE Q clearance.

Work Schedule

This position supports 24/7 operations and may require off-normal shifts, including nights and weekends, with management oversight responsibilities across multiple organizations and projects. Employees may be eligible for shift differential pay when assigned by their manager. Shift and weekend assignments are at the discretion of management.

Work Location

The work location for this position is onsite in Los Alamos, NM. All work locations are at the discretion of management.

Position commitment

Regular appointment employees are required to serve a period of continuous service in their current position in order to be eligible to apply for posted jobs throughout the Laboratory. If an employee has not served the time required, they may only apply for Laboratory jobs with the documented approval of their Division Leader. The position commitment for this position is 2 years.

Note to Applicants

Due to federal restrictions contained in the current National Defense Authorization Act, citizens of the People's Republic of China-including the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau-as well as citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), and the Russian Federation, who are not Lawful Permanent Residents ("green card" holders) are prohibited from accessing facilities that support the mission, functions, and operations of national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities, which includes Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Where You Will Work

Located in beautiful northern New Mexico, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security.

Our generous benefits package includes:

• PPO or High Deductible medical insurance with the same large nationwide network
• Dental and vision insurance
• Free basic life and disability insurance
• Paid childbirth and parental leave
• Award-winning 401(k) (6% matching plus 3.5% annually)
• Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
• Flexible schedules and time off (PTO and holidays)
• Onsite gyms and wellness programs
• Extensive relocation packages (outside a 50 mile radius)

Additional Details

Directive 206.2

Employment with Triad requires a favorable decision by NNSA indicating employee is suitable under NNSA Supplemental Directive 206.2. Please note that this requirement applies only to citizens of the United States. Foreign nationals are subject to a similar requirement under DOE Order 142.3A.

Clearance: Q

(Position will be cleared to this level). Selected applicants will be subject to a background investigation conducted by or on behalf of the Federal Government, and must meet eligibility requirements* for access to classified matter. This position requires a Q clearance, and obtaining such clearance requires US Citizenship except in extremely rare circumstances. Dependent upon the position, additional authorization to access classified information may be required, which may or may not be available to dual citizens. Receipt of a Q clearance and additional access authorization ultimately is a decision of the Federal Government and not of Triad.

*Eligibility requirements

To obtain a clearance, an individual must be at least 18 years of age; U.S. citizenship is required except in very limited circumstances. See DOE Order 472.2 for additional information.

426.2A:

This position is subject to DOE Order 426.2A, Personnel Selection, Training, and Qualification Requirements for DOE Nuclear Facilities, which establishes entry-level requirements to ensure candidates selected for specific positions can successfully perform the requirements of the job.

New-Employment Drug Test: The Laboratory requires successful applicants to complete a new-employment drug test and maintains a substance abuse policy that includes random drug testing. Although New Mexico and other states have legalized the use of marijuana, use and possession of marijuana remain illegal under federal law. A positive drug test for marijuana will result in termination of employment, even if the use was pre-offer.

Regular position

Term status Laboratory employees applying for regular-status positions are converted to regular status.

Internal Applicants

Regular appointment employees who have served the required period of continuous service in their current position are eligible to apply for posted jobs throughout the Laboratory. If an employee has not served the required period of continuous service, they may only apply for Laborator"y jobs with the documented approval of their Division Leader. Please refer to Policy Policy P701 for applicant eligibility requirements.

Incentive Compensation Program

Position is eligible to participate in the Triad Incentive Compensation Program. You must be in an eligible position for a minimum of 3 months, before July 1st and remain in an eligible position as of the end of the fiscal year, September 30th. The annual distribution is prorated based on the number of months in the eligible position.

Equal Opportunity

Los Alamos National Laboratory is an equal opportunity employer. All employment practices are based on qualification and merit, without regard to protected categories such as race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status or spousal affiliation, physical or mental disability, medical conditions, pregnancy, status as a protected veteran, genetic information, or citizenship within the limits imposed by federal, state, and local laws and regulations. The Laboratory is also committed to making our workplace accessible to individuals with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations, upon request, for individuals to participate in the application and hiring process. To request such an accommodation, please send an email to [e-mail] or call (505)-664-6947.