Description

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

*These benefits vary by job classification.

What Your Job Will Be Like

We are looking for an experienced engineer (R&D S&E Mechanical Engineer) to provide technical oversight and mentorship to a team developing multiple components for a current life extension program (LEP) Product Realization Team (PRT). This PRT Integration Lead role will require review and critique of technical development efforts by a multidisciplinary team, ensuring design efforts address requirements. Additionally, it will be important for this leader to ensure applicable technical data is sufficiently captured and documented to ensure successful outcomes at critical programmatic and technical reviews.

We are looking for a leader to:

• Oversee and guide the technical design efforts
• Provide oversight to ensure critical development details are documented to support product acceptance, qualification evidence, and formal reviews
• Lead the technical discussions and present on evidence at important programmatic and technical reviews
• Ensure continuity over design, assembly, qualification/test, and production
• Facilitate transition from design-centric development phase to production-centric phase
• Communicate clearly with a multidisciplinary team, ensuring all contributors are engaged on the right priorities at the right time

Work Location: Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite full time in California.

Travel: This position requires occasional travel to Albuquerque, NM, and Kansas City, MO, but the travel will be less than 25% of the time.

Salary Range

$135,700 - $270,900

*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

Qualifications We Require

• A Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline and five (5) years of directly relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of directly relevant education and engineering or scientific experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform independent research and development.
• Active DOE Q Clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain Sigma 14/15

Qualifications We Desire

The ideal R&D S&E Mechanical Engineer candidate for Sandia National Laboratories will in addition possess the following:

• Graduate degree in Mechanical Engineering or a highly related field where an independent research project was a graduation requirement (e.g., independent project, MS thesis, or PhD dissertation).
• Experience with mechanical engineering and product realization in the NNSA complex.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, ability to work effectively and lead multidisciplinary teams.

Also, for this posting we are seeking individuals with the following experience:

• 5 or more years of experience leading a technical team responsible for product realization at either a component or system-level
• Proven record of effectively tailoring and presenting to external stakeholders and customers (Systems, Production Agencies, NNSA)
• Demonstrated broad multi-disciplinary technical knowledge
• Ability to make major decisions with limited information
• Experience with test equipment, instrumentation and product qualification
• Experience working with NSE production agencies and external customers
• Demonstrated experience of NW qualification processes, test scoping and execution, and documentation
• Experience with advanced composite materials, metallic surface coatings, bi-material interfaces and structural bonding approaches and quality assurance methods

About Our Team

The Weapons Subsystems 3 team designs, prototypes and supports mechanical weapon subsystems for high consequence applications requiring exceptionally high confidence, quality and reliability. These projects support a broad mission space including assets that are critical to U.S. national security.

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.