Engineering and Maintenance Manager

Company Description

Join us and make YOUR mark on the World!

Are you interested in joining some of the brightest talent in the world to strengthen the United States’ security? Come join Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) where our employees apply their expertise to create solutions for BIG ideas that make our world a better place.

We are dedicated to fostering a culture that values individuals, talents, partnerships, ideas, experiences, and different perspectives, recognizing their importance to the continued success of the Laboratory’s mission.

Pay Range

$325,560 - $414,984 Annually

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting.  An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Job Description

We have an opening for an Engineering and Maintenance Manager. This position includes management and oversight of the implementation and execution of engineering and maintenance programs for seven (7) Hazard Category 2 and Category 3 nuclear facilities, radiological facilities, high explosives facilities at Site 200 in Livermore, California and at Site 300 in Tracy, California, and Livermore Computing facilities. You will interface with senior Project Management Office managers and their staff, senior Infrastructure and Operations Directorate maintenance and engineering managers, maintenance deployed team leads, facility managers, and support contractor representatives. Responsibilities also include assisting in the management and development of staffing, short-term and long-term strategic planning and goals, and maintenance budgets. This position is in Operations within the Strategic Deterrence (SD) Directorate.

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

You will

• Provide strategic leadership and direction to the SD maintenance and engineering programs to ensure that work is conducted safely and efficiently by well-trained and qualified staff in compliance with DOE Orders and applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
• Develop and establish strategic plans for engineering and maintenance programs in collaboration with senior executives, aligning with the Laboratory's long-term objectives.
• Manage the engineering and maintenance budgets for SD facilities and develop and implement cost-saving initiatives for improving equipment reliability, availability, and safety.
• Foster a learning culture through mentoring, coaching, and training to enhance professional development and personal growth opportunities and support succession planning.
• Manage a cross-functional and multidisciplinary team of professionals as the Lead for the Nuclear and Firing Facilities Integrated Project Team to successfully plan and execute all phases of each project’s life cycle within the portfolio and ensure all requirements and customer needs are met within scope, cost, schedule, contractual and performance requirements, and mission objectives.
• Serve as a voting Buying Team (BT) member or a non-voting subject matter expert (SME) advisor to evaluate proposals submitted in response to a request for proposal (RFP) for the Institutional Construction Services Subcontract (ICSS) to assist Lawrence Livermore National Security (LLNS) with construction activities, such as installation, modification, demolition, commissioning support, repair, alteration, and renovation work in support of various LLNL missions.
• Provide technical direction as the Subcontract Technical Representative (STR) for labor-hour type Delivery Order (i.e., Subcontract) between LLNS and the Seller providing technical assistance services in support of LLNS’ facility management, operations, maintenance, and engineering support for SD Superblock and Radioactive and Hazardous Waste Management (RHWM) nuclear and non-nuclear facilities and other SD Site 200 and Site 300 non-nuclear facilities.
• Negotiate and manage resources and oversee personnel assignments to assure adequate and balanced support for facility operations, security, materials control and accountability, and infrastructure, for the successful and timely completion of programmatic goals.
• Champion SD’s W80-4 Life Extension Program and W87-1 Modification Program efforts by providing guidance and necessary resources to technical, scientific, and administrative staff that result in the timely completion of facility equipment modifications, replacement projects, and maintenance.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in security, safet