Senior Project Manager, Nuclear Facilities & Readiness

Los Alamos National Laboratory; Los Alamos (NM); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Medical insurance

Dental and vision

Retirement plan / 401(k)

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, NM, invites applications for Manager of Projects 3 to oversee planning, coordination, and execution of high‑visibility equipment and facility projects. You will lead project-management staff, manage cost and schedule, and coordinate with ALD divisions to advance the plutonium strategy and production mission.

You will interact with senior leadership and federal customers, ensuring rigorous safety, quality, and regulatory standards while driving

Qualifications

• Leadership experience guiding complex or high-consequence projects.
• Ability to coach and mentor staff and ensure accountability.
• Strong planning, organizational, and multi-project coordination skills.
• Experience aligning project goals with organizational priorities.

Responsibilities

• Support the planning, coordination, and execution of equipment, infrastructure, and facility projects in alignment with transition to operations objectives
• Provide operational supervision and technical guidance to assigned project-management staff and other team members
• Monitor active project work to ensure responsible actions, issues addressed, and deliverables meet scope, schedule, budget, quality, and safety expectations
• Support cost, schedule, forecasting, change-control, risk, and project-integration activities across assigned projects
• Review and support project execution plans, transition-to-operations plans, continuous-improvement plans, assessments, estimates, schedules, forecasts, and other key project documents
• Partner with LANL directorates and project execution organizations to support effective project execution
• Increase cross-organizational efficiency to promote an integrated approach to project delivery
• Support staffing plans, work assignments, hiring, onboarding, performance management, employee development, and recognition for assigned staff
• Promote strong safety, security, quality, compliance, and continuous-improvement culture across assigned work
• Build and sustain trusted relationships with internal and external customers, senior management, peer organizations, and project execution stakeholders

Skills

Leadership

Team leadership

Coaching

Accountability

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, NM, invites applications for Manager of Projects 3 to oversee planning, coordination, and execution of high‑visibility equipment and facility projects. You will lead project-management staff, manage cost and schedule, and coordinate with ALD divisions to advance the plutonium strategy and production mission.

You will interact with senior leadership and federal customers, ensuring rigorous safety, quality, and regulatory standards while driving