Senior Engineering Associate

Company Description

Join us and make YOUR mark on the World!

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has turned bold ideas into world-changing impact advancing science and technology to strengthen U.S. security and promote global stability. 

Our mission spans four critical national security areas nuclear deterrence, threat preparedness, energy security, and multi-domain defense empowering teams to take on the toughest challenges of today and tomorrow. With a culture built on innovation and operational excellence, LLNL is a place where your expertise can make a real impact.

Job Description

We have multiple openings for Senior Engineering Associates. You will work independently by collaborating with scientists, engineers, and top-level technical personnel to provide highly advanced technical and technical management support in mechanical, electronics, and laser/electro-optic technologies to support complex engineering, research, and operational systems. You will conduct research to find solutions to engineering problems along with providing leadership in developing, designing, documenting, analyzing, operating, maintaining, and improving highly complex mechanical, electronic, software, and laser/electro-optic systems. You will plan and lead multiple projects of significant scope. You will author, review, and approve reports, manuals, and other engineering documentation as well as routinely presenting this material to superiors and subordinates. This position is in the Laser Systems Engineering & Operations (LSEO) Division within the Engineering Directorate.

This position requires full-time on-site presence due to the nature of the work.

In this role, you will

• Provide highly advanced technical support in originating, developing, analyzing, evaluating, troubleshooting, and documenting highly complex mechanical, electronic, and laser/electro-optic engineering systems and solutions.
• Collaborate with scientists, engineers, and high-level technical personnel to support the design, development, operation, maintenance, and improvement of highly complex prototype, production, research, and operational systems.
• Develop and refine technical systems, operations, and maintenance strategies for highly complex multidisciplinary systems.
• Lead the design, documentation, modification, testing, integration, operation, and maintenance of highly complex mechanical, electronics, instrumentation, controls, software-enabled, and laser/electro-optic systems.
• Define high-level technical requirements into detailed engineering solutions, technical documentation, operational approaches, and implementation plans.
• Develop, author, review, and approve technical documentation including reports, engineering analyses, procedures, operation and maintenance manuals, schedules, and related engineering documents.
• Perform and review highly complex data analysis, technical evaluations, troubleshooting results, and system performance assessments to support engineering decisions.
• Provide technical leadership to multidisciplinary teams; assign tasks, define technical approaches, oversee work execution, and mentor technical personnel.
• Train and qualify others in specific on-the-job technical assignments, procedures, engineering best practices, and applicable Laboratory processes.
• Ensure assignments are performed in accordance with applicable ES&H, security, code, standards, and engineering rigor requirements.
• Apply a high degree of independent discretion and judgment to define project approaches and implement original technical solutions.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Ability to secure and maintain a U.S. DOE Q-level security clearance which requires U.S. citizenship.
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology, Electrical Engineering Technology, Electro-Optic Technology, or related field, or the equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• Highly advanced experience supporting and solving problems involving complex mechanical, electronics, and laser/electro-optic systems.
• Extensive experience developing, documenting, modifying, evaluating, operating, maintaining, and improving highly complex technical systems in research, development, production, or operations environments.
• Extensive experience making independent technical decisions on highly complex assignments with safety, operational, performance, schedule, and cost impacts.
• Extensive experience planning, organizing, budgeting, and leading multiple projects of significant scope and complexity.
• Extensive experience authoring, reviewing, approving, and presenting engineering reports, manuals, procedures, and related technical documentation.
• Advanced leadership