Production Control Specialist 3: Material Readiness

Los Alamos National Security LLC; Los Alamos (NM); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental and vision insurance

Life and disability insurance

Paid leave

401(k) with matching

Tuition assistance

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico seeks a Production Control Specialist to manage inventory, material accountability, and M&TE in a high-consequence, classified environment. You will coordinate with operations, safety, security, quality, and procurement to ensure materials and equipment are received, tracked, stored, issued, and reconciled per procedures.

The role emphasizes cycle counts, calibration status, and auditable records, with a focus on compliant storage and material

Qualifications

• Reliability, attention to detail, willingness to learn, and ability to follow approved procedures in a controlled work environment.
• Sound knowledge and experience in inventory control, material management, logistics, warehousing, procurement support, or operations support.
• Ability to assist with receiving, labeling, storing, staging, issuing, returning, reconciling, and dispositioning materials.
• Ability to learn accountability and positive-control practices for high explosives, classified matter, controlled components, inert inventory, consumables, spare parts, test assets, and M&TE.
• Ability to support inventory records, transaction logs, cycle counts, physical inventories, shelf-life tracking, lot/serial-number tracking, M&TE status checks, and discrepancy follow-up under direction.
• Basic computer skills and ability to communicate with operations, safety, security, quality, material management, craft, and programmatic personnel to support material readiness.
• Willingness to work in high-consequence environments and maintain storage, staging, and inventory areas in an orderly, hazard-free, and compliant condition while following Stop Work expectations.

Responsibilities

• Provide material management, logistics, and operations support in a controlled work environment consistent with institutional requirements.
• Maintain accountability and positive control of high explosives, classified matter, controlled components, test assets, consumables, spare parts, inert inventories, and M&TE.
• Conduct material control activities including receipt, verification, labeling, storage, staging, issuance, return, transfer, reconciliation, and disposition in accordance with approved procedures.
• Perform cycle counts, physical inventories, and inventory reconciliations; maintain accurate shelf-life, lot, and serial-number tracking; ensure M&TE identification, calibration status, and control are compliant with institutional processes.
• Utilize approved production, inventory, database, spreadsheet, and resource-planning systems to maintain accurate, complete, and auditable records, including those associated with M&TE.
• Coordinate with operations, safety, security, quality, material management, craft, and programmatic organizations to ensure material and M&TE availability to support mission execution.
• Prepare, maintain, and retain required documentation, including inventory records, material forms, transaction logs, work-control documents, configuration management and quality records, and M&TE control documentation.
• Implement safe, secure, and compliant work practices in facilities that involve high explosives, hazardous materials, classified matter, controlled inventories, and calibrated or non-calibrated M&TE.
• Maintain storage, staging, and inventory areas in an orderly, hazard-free, and compliant condition, including appropriate segregation, housekeeping, material organization, and coordination of waste or excess materials.
• Exercise Stop Work authority when conditions arise that may challenge safety, security, material control, M&TE control, or compliance requirements.

Skills

Reliability

Attention to detail

Procedures adherence

Inventory control

Material management

Logistics

Receiving labeling

M&TE handling

Systems literacy

Safety awareness

Tools

Barcode tools

Procurement tools

Asset-management systems

Inventory databases

Job description

Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico seeks a Production Control Specialist to manage inventory, material accountability, and M&TE in a high-consequence, classified environment. You will coordinate with operations, safety, security, quality, and procurement to ensure materials and equipment are received, tracked, stored, issued, and reconciled per procedures.

The role emphasizes cycle counts, calibration status, and auditable records, with a focus on compliant storage and material