Posting Duration
This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the ‘posting date’. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.
NNSA Requirements for MedPEDs
If you have a Medical Portable Electronic Device (MedPED), such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, drug-releasing pump, hearing aids, or diagnostic equipment and other equipment for measuring, monitoring, and recording body functions such as heartbeat and brain waves, if employed by Sandia National Laboratories you may be required to comply with NNSA security requirements for MedPEDs.
If you have a MedPED and you are selected for an on-site interview at Sandia National Laboratories, there may be additional steps necessary to ensure compliance with NNSA security requirements prior to the interview date.
Salary Range
$75,900 – $146,200
*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate’s experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.
What Your Job Will Be Like
We are seeking a Project Controller for the W87-1 Cables Component PRT. This role will assume primary responsibility for project analysis, report development and communication associated with various project controls job duties, such as project baseline, work package agreements, cost control, cost estimation, earned value management (EVM), projections, variance analysis, schedules, change control management and implementation within P6. In addition, this role will also lead the development and implementation of the 7630 Portfolio reports for executive management.
On any given day, you may be called on to:
- Collaborate with the peer Project Manager(s) and Project Controllers.
- Provide detailed analysis and reporting of project status using project management tools such as Primavera P6.
- Work with the project technical leads to execute project management activities including project plan development, project monitoring and control, and integrated change control.
- Team with technical staff, project leads and managers to make recommendations to influence key decision makers within the scope of project controls (work breakdown structure, schedule, and budget/cost).
- Research, assemble, and evaluate project information or data and recommend sound, practical solutions to project related issues.
- Facilitate internal team communications and meetings.
- Update the schedule status as required, produces reports, and tracks variances and recommends corrective action.
- Analyze, prepare, validate, and maintain cost estimates, detailed baseline budgets, work package agreements, and monthly cost variance reports.
- Lead scope change analysis, develop what-ifs and administer change control to schedule and budgets, ensuring that all changes are documented via the appropriate change control process.
- Train other Project Controls team members.
Qualifications We Require
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline plus five years of directly related experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of the job; or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
- Experience working in Project Controls; including Primavera P6, experience managing resource loaded schedules with Earned Value Management requirements.
- Active DOE Q-level security clearance or DOD equivalent.
Qualifications We Desire
- Knowledge of the Nuclear Weapons complex and product realization process.
- Demonstrated ability to manage and prioritize a variety of tasks and work independently with minimal supervision.
- Experience and familiarity with Primavera P6 scheduling tool.
- Experience and familiarity Earned Value Management (EVM) principles and methodology.
- Ability to effectively team, communicate, and collaborate with technical staff, management, customers, and partners at all levels.
- Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to organize and perform under strict deadlines and changing priorities.
- Willing to take initiative, take ownership of job responsibilities, and make appropriate decisions to complete tasks.
- Excellent analytical, facilitation, and decision analysis skills.
About Our Team
The ND Component Design PM- Interconnects Department (10438) provides exceptional enhanced project management services to high rigor ND Component Center 7600. Through partnership with our Project Management Teams, our technical partners are better able to focus on the technical solutions required to achieve mission success. We provide enhanced project management support throughout the project lifecycle through an expert based, service-oriented team atmosphere.
About Sandia
Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:
- Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
- Extraordinary co-workers
- Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
- Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
- Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
- Generous vacations, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*
World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://www.sandia.gov
*These benefits vary by job classification.
Security Clearance
Position requires a Department of Energy (DOE) Q security clearance to start, or equivalent active security clearance with another U.S. government agency (e.g., DOD). Sandia is required by DOE directive to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.
Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.
EEO
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.