Operations Manager

Requisition Id 14728 

 

Overview:  

We are seeking an Operations Manager (OM) who fill focus on vision, strategy, planning, and execution of operational activities for the partnerships mission at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). ORNL’s Partnerships organization is responsible for leading and stewarding strategic institutional partnerships, collaborative research programs with the public and private sectors, technology commercialization, regional economic development, and entrepreneurship, while working to ensure that ORNL’s research activities and results are protected, as needed, to maximize scientific and technical impact for the United States. This position will report to the Partnerships Director.

 

ORNL is the largest US Department of Energy science and energy laboratory, conducting basic and applied research to deliver transformative solutions to compelling problems in energy and security. Our diverse capabilities span a broad range of scientific and engineering disciplines, enabling the Laboratory to translate fundamental scientific discoveries into new technologies.

 

Major Duties/Responsibilities: 

Operations:

• Formulate long-term operational strategies in collaboration with Partnerships Director that integrate with the mission of the directorate to include Technology Transfer, Economic Development, Research Security, and Strategic Partnerships.

• Implement efficiencies in operations in Technology Transfer, Economic Development, Research Security, and Strategic Partnerships.

• Work with Partnerships office and key leaders in the directorate to facilitate directorate-level Laboratory planning processes and contributions to the annual report

• Coordinate the Partnerships internal and external web presence to foster continuous improvement.

• Support the Partnerships Director in implementing the operational improvements needed for the Partnerships mission and to meet the expectations of the Laboratory Agenda and PEMP goals/objectives.

• Be cognizant of activities in the directorate and the associated operational challenges and propose operational improvements to increase efficiencies, reduce risks, and remove hazards.

• Be active in laboratory-level activities such as strategic planning and policy development, commitment management, and lead assessment and corrective action teams on occasion.

• Review and assess the impacts on Partnerships of proposed ORNL initiatives and management systems changes and develop implantation plans to ensure safe, secure, effective, and efficient operations within Partnerships.

• Represent Partnerships by communicating issues, lessons learned, best practices, and challenges related to management systems, operations, safety, security, compliance, and performance assessments to the Operations Managers Forum, Management System Owners, and ORNL’s Leadership Team, as needed.

• Facilitate special activities including workshops, specialized committees, etc., for Partnerships, ORNL, and select institution-level industry and SPP sponsors.

• Assess and coordinate responses to requests for input from laboratory management, DOE, and other sponsors (e.g. annual data calls from DOE-HQ, DOE-SC, and DOE-OTT).

• Deliver ORNL’s mission by aligning behaviors, priorities, and interactions with our core values of Impact, Integrity, Teamwork, Safety, and Service. Foster a respectful workplace – in how we treat one another, work together, and measure success.  

Oversight:

• Coordinate with the Partnerships Leadership Team to provide operational support to Partnerships staff to maintain compliance with all applicable federal and state laws, DOE orders, and ORNL policies and procedures.

• Support the Partnerships Director and Leadership Team in ensuring directorate compliance with operations related ORNL policies, standards, procedures, requirements, and tools as documented in the Standards Based Manage