C-AD Deputy Chair for Operations

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ORGANIZATION OVERVIEW

The mission of the Collider-Accelerator Department (C-AD) is to operate, maintain, improve, and upgrade the suite of electron, proton, and heavy ion accelerators used to carry out a program of accelerator-based experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). To support this program, the C-AD must design, fabricate, assemble, test, install, and operate unique research equipment to generate, transport, transfer, accelerate, focus, track, collide, and absorb high intensity particle beams up to energies of 255 GeV.  This includes a combination of custom designed and built parts and vendor produced components developed by a collaboration of the C-AD scientific, engineering, and technical staff. The C-AD supports an international user community of over 1,500 scientists. The C-AD performs all these functions in an environmentally-responsible and safe manner, under a rigorous conduct of operations approach.

POSITION DESCRIPTION

As the C-AD Deputy Chair for Operations you will be a part of the C-AD leadership team and continue to build and improve the operational platform on which research runs. You will support the C-AD Department Chair by ensuring that all operational requirements are implemented efficiently. You will work closely with Nuclear and Particle Physics (NPP) Directorate Chief Operating Officer and other BNL organizations. This position has a high level of interaction with an international and multicultural scientific community.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Establish operations policies and procedures and implement efficiently

• Coordinate organization-wide resources, and exercise senior level decision-making over a wide range of operations programs, initiatives, and issues

• As a member of the BNL Operations Council, and other institutional committees and working groups, provide senior level input to operational matters at the institutional level and collaborate across the Lab

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• BS in a science, technology, engineering or math (STEM), business, or other relevant field

• 15+ years of relevant experience working and managing in organizations or facilities that rely on a formal conduct of operations (e.g. DOE, military, commercial nuclear, other industries)

• Experience leading and developing teams in reporting lines and outside reporting lines

• Experience in leading change management initiatives

• Excellent oral and written communications capabilities, including developing and delivering presentations

• Proficient in MS Office programs (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint)

• Demonstrated commitment to Safety and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• MS in a science, technology, engineering or math (STEM), business, or other relevant field

• 5+ years of experience working in a DOE national laboratory

• Experience in an operations role in a DOE accelerator facility

• Q-level Access Authorization

Environmental, Health & Safety Requirements:

• Knowledge of relevant regulations and demonstrated ability to implement these in an DOE accelerator operation or equivalent environment

OTHER INFORMATION:

• Position requires full-time on-site presence

• Valid drivers’ license

• Ability to function in a fast-paced environment

• Occasional travel

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