Project and Portfolio Manager

Requisition Id 14870 

 

Overview:

As a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national laboratory, ORNL has an impressive 80-year legacy of addressing the nation’s most pressing challenges. Our team is made up of over 7,000 dedicated and innovative individuals! Our goal is to create an environment where a variety of perspectives and backgrounds are valued, ensuring ORNL is known as a top choice for employment. These principles are essential for supporting our broader mission to drive scientific breakthroughs and translate them into solutions for energy, environmental, and security challenges facing the nation.

 

The National Security Science Directorate, NSSD, Manufacturing Program Office leads a large portfolio of applied research and development programs centered around additive manufacturing, additive manufacturing feedstocks, carbon fiber and composites, caron-carbon materials, machining, data analytics, metrology, flexible automation and systems research.

 

We are seeking applications for our Project and Portfolio Manager position. Successful candidates will work across our research portfolio working with our sponsors, staff and laboratory leadership. The position reports directly to the NSSD Defense Manufacturing Program Director.

 

Major Duties/Responsibilities: 

Strategic Development and Outreach

• Work directly with critical staff and partners to evolve ORNL collaborative research portfolio to target national security and energy needs.

• Build and maintain relationships with senior leadership and key collaborators, and act as a trusted advisor to help develop and drive strategy creation and adoption.

• Identify key directions and imperatives in the DOD manufacturing area and ORNL strengths that are best aligned.

• Lead the development engagement strategies for national security manufacturing (NSM) mission needs through internal and external workshops, developing white papers and leadership briefings, and ensuring alignment with ORNL science priorities.

• Identify gaps and/or shortfalls within the NSM missions and solutions to meet the needs of sponsors.

 

Leadership

• Guide, motivate, and empower the ORNL manufacturing teams, ensuring staff development, effective delivery, and continuous improvement, to deliver the agreed-upon manufacturing program goals and objectives.

• Provide ongoing coaching and mentoring to manufacturing staff and embedded project managers.

• Collaborate with ORNL leadership to develop program engagement strategies and provide input into long range NSM science strategies.

• Develop and implement a strategic resource plan.

• Collaborate across organizations to develop, mature, and lead teams to address manufacturing needs for the US

 

Portfolio and Project Management

• Facilitate and drive manufacturing strategies and standards through peer and subordinate collaborators and through organizational leadership. Work to build a consensus around the manufacturing mission and vision of the NNSD organization.

• Lead the identification and implementation of project management processes, methods, tools, guidelines and standards to establish a stable framework that supports all project teams and partners to improve the probability of successful project delivery.

• Drive the establishment of a project management community of practice. Facilitate collaboration and best-practice sharing among project managers, key ORNL manufacturing collaborators, and external equities.

• Regularly review and evaluate opportunities to improve the project management best practices in order to achieve higher maturity in manufacturing programs.

 

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