Process Support Manager (Manager of Projects 3)

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos (NM)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 190,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental and vision insurance

Life insurance

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is seeking a Manager of Projects 3 to lead decontamination and decommissioning activities within TA-55. You will manage scope, schedule, resources, costs, and risk while coordinating with engineering, safety, nuclear material management, and installation teams to ensure safe and compliant execution.

Responsibilities include leading personnel, defining execution strategies, and advancing line-item installation projects to support weapons production.

Qualifications

Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary teams on complex projects in regulated environments.
Strong project planning, risk management, and schedule control abilities.
Familiarity with safety, security, and quality integration in field operations.

Responsibilities

Lead integrated project planning, schedules, resources, costs, and risks.
Coordinate across multiple organizations including engineering, safety, and waste management.
Ensure ISM principles are applied and work is performed safely and compliantly.
Oversee personnel management, hiring, onboarding, and performance discussions.
Define portfolio scope, execution strategies, and monitor deliverables across projects.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Nuclear facilities

Safety

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

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. Reporting to a Project-Program Director within LIP-DD, this position provides project leadership to safely, securely, and efficiently execute decontamination and decommissioning activities while meeting applicable requirements and project commitments. As a Manager of Projects 3 (MOP3) within LIP-DD, you will lead integrated project planning, work readiness, coordination, and execution for the removal of gloveboxes and associated systems within TA-55. These activities prepare space and establish the conditions necessary for follow-on Line-Item installation projects supporting the Laboratory's weapons production mission. You may serve as the lead project manager and as line manager for deployed project managers and other assigned personnel. This position reports administratively to a MOP 5 or Program Director within LIP-DD. You will coordinate multidisciplinary teams across project management, facility operations, engineering, safety, nuclear material management, waste management, and installation organizations. Responsibilities include managing scope, schedules, resources, costs, risks, and organizational interfaces; resolving execution constraints; monitoring field progress; and completing project documentation and closeout activities. You will implement Integrated Safety Management (ISM) principles and ensure work is performed safely, securely, and compliantly using approved work documents, established controls, and trained and qualified personnel. You will support personnel management, including recruiting, hiring, onboarding, headcount and resource forecasting, budget planning, work assignments, training, continuous performance management, annual performance discussions, employee development, and team recognition. Working with a MOP 3 or higher or the Program Director, you will define portfolio scope, develop execution strategies, identify resource and logistical needs, and monitor deliverables. You will apply Laboratory policies, procedures, and project management requirements to support compliant execution and coordination with installation schedules.

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. Verify readiness 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: Oversee work performed by multiple organizations and project teams during assigned shifts. Establish priorities, monitor execution, resolve resource and work-area conflicts, and direct actions within delegated authority. Escalate unresolved issues to Shift Oversight Management or the designated management chain. 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 affecting execution. Monitor prerequisite completion, identify constraints, assign resolution actions within delegated authority, and expedite issues that threaten safe execution or schedule commitments.
Personnel management: Support recruiting and 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 project management requirements. Work with the Program Director or designated management to define portfolio scope, develop execution strategies, and identify resource needs. Establish repeatable planning, scheduling, reporting, and execution practices; share lessons learned; and strengthen customer service and delivery performance.

What You Need

Minimum Job Requirements

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. Ability to integrate 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

Strong experience developing and maintaining effective internal and external customer relationships and providing project leadership on issues requiring cross-organizational solutions. Demonstrated ability to interface with program, project, and line management to develop clear, executable action plans. Ability to promote open communication, mutual trust, teamwork, and employee development while coordinating work with facility operations and installation project stakeholders.

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.

Education/Experience for Manager of Projects 3:

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

Desired Qualifications

LANL Operations

Familiarity with TA-55/PF-4 operations, work authorization processes, and organizational interfaces. Experience supporting decontamination and decommissioning, glovebox or equipment removal, or associated installation activities in an operating nuclear facility.

Work Readiness and Project Interfaces

Experience coordinating radiological protection, nuclear criticality safety, nuclear material control and accountability, safeguards and security, and waste management requirements. Experience with Integrated Work Documents, configuration management, readiness activities, and project closeout.

Stakeholder Relations

Experience working with federal customers or representatives at headquarters or field office level to understand requirements and meet customer expectations. Experience working on integrated project teams supporting decontamination and decommissioning, nuclear facility equipment removal, or construction.

Clearance

Active DOE Q clearance desired.

Work Location and Schedule

Location:

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

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 and located 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: