Program Manager, Defense Manufacturing Program Office

Requisition Id 16685 

 

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, Defense Manufacturing Program Office (DMPO) leads a large portfolio of applied research and development programs centered around additive manufacturing, qualification/certification, 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 Program 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.
• Maintain and continue to develop relationships with senior leadership and key collaborators, including multiple program sponsors from the Department of War acting as a trusted advisor.
• Work directly with staff to deliver on existing R&D programs and the associated reporting. Represent the Chief Manufacturing Officer in key program meetings in their absence.

 

Leadership

• Guide and support the ORNL manufacturing teams, ensuring exemplary program delivery.
• 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 NSSD science strategies. Develop and implement strategic resource plans for existing programs.
• All team members deliver ORNL’s mission by aligning behaviors, priorities, and interactions with our core values of Impact, Integrity, Teamwork, Safety, and Service. Promote equal opportunity by fostering a respectful workplace – in how we treat one another, work together, and measure success.

 

Portfolio and Project Management

• 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.
• Track all program costs and provide written and verbal reports to program sponsors. Make decisions concerning project and program spending, within program parameters and guidelines.
• 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.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining the project controls policies, procedures and systems/tools that facilitate the successful development and maintenance of multiple projects in the National Security Sciences Directorate, including:
  • Project work breakdown structure (WBS) and dictionary
  • Summary and detailed, logic driven, resource loaded schedules
  • Summary and detailed cost estimates
  • Actual costs and accrual integration
  • Risk identification and management
  • Change control
  • Develop, present, and reinforce project management process and systems training for all applicable project staff
  • Prepare and support various project reviews, including internal and external project status reviews

 

Basic Qualifications:

• BS in a science or engineering field and seven (7) years of relevant experience.
• Experience in applied R&D project management and/or busin