Director, Advanced Manufacturing & Engineering Excellence (Center 7500)

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696257

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Albuquerque, NM

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About Sandia

Sandia National Laboratories is the nation's premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs :

• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
• Extraordinary co-workers
• Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
• Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9 / 80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4 / 10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
• Generous vacation, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work / life balance

World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at : http : / / www.sandia.gov

What Your Job Will Be Like

The Director of Center 7500, Advanced Manufacturing & Engineering Excellence, oversees the work of one of the most exciting Centers in the Laboratory. The Center is responsible for the entire product lifecycle (research, development, qualification, production, and surveillance) for Neutron Generators. We also have design and / or production responsibility for Switchtubes, Neutron Generator Monitors, and Surety products that address an urgent national need. In February 2025 we adopted the Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation (CAMINO), a program that is creating advanced manufacturing competencies and applying them to accelerate product realization. The CAMINO program serves all missions at Sandia and multiplies value by partnering with universities, industry, and all agencies in the Nuclear Security Enterprise. Underpinning all our work, and supporting multiple Centers at the labs, our enterprise integration Group specializes in equipment, analytical sciences, and information systems supporting production.

Our Center accomplishes the production portion of its mission using a combination of internal production and engineering oversight of external suppliers. As a result, we have a particularly large set of customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders, with whom we engage to deliver all aspects of our mission scope. Our Center works closely with mission enabling teams around Sandia. As a result, the Director must spend time developing and sustaining relationships with our facilities, financial, information technology, safety, and security partners.

We are committed to on-time and on-budget delivery to our customers, employing Lean culture and other formal methods of continuous improvement. The Center is considered by many to be an exemplar of formal continuous improvement practice within the Laboratory. In addition, the Center prides itself on having a family atmosphere that makes it a desirable place to work. The next Director will have the opportunity to build on these strengths, to make the Center an even more effective organization than it has been in the past.

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

Salary Range

$228,700 - $388,800

Qualifications We Require

Qualifications We Desire

About Our Team

The Advanced Manufacturing & Engineering Excellence Center, Organization 7500, is responsible for the research, design, qualification, production, and surveillance of dozens of products across several product lines : neutron generators, switchtubes, neutron generator monitors, security products. Our products support both Nuclear Deterrence and Strategic Partnership Program customers. Our workforce is second to none, and our culture of continuous improvement ensures that we will be even more capable tomorrow than we are today.

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.