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
$118,500 – $201,400
*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 highly motivated Facilities Electrical Engineering Maintenance Manager to join our Maintenance and Operations team! We are a mission partner and the provider of choice for infrastructure services across all Laboratory sites. You will have a maintenance staff of approximately 70 employees, mostly bargaining unit/union skilled trades. This is structured into six team leads directly reporting to you that oversee six groups including: High Voltage Electrical, Low Voltage Electrical, Fire Alarm, Fire Suppression and Sprinklers, Breaker Testing and Low Voltage & Lighting.
This is an extraordinary and unique opportunity at Sandia to provide visionary leadership. Why not join us? At Sandia, you will be part of collaborative teams that make an impact on the nation and the world!
On any given day, you may be called on to:
- Track and maintain maintenance and department budgets.
- Ensure projects are completed on schedule and within budget.
- Exercise judgement within defined procedures and policies to determine appropriate action and provide solutions.
- Resolve complex problems and meet schedules in daily operations.
- Track metrics surrounding the execution of maintenance work.
- Resolve bargaining unit/union skilled trade concerns per the Sandia labor agreement.
- Collaborate with union stewards as needed to address bargaining unit/union skilled trade concerns.
- Ensure infrastructure & building electrical and fire protection systems are operated and maintained in a safe and reliable manner.
- Contribute engineering analyses to planning and response efforts for system outages; works with team leads to solve routine field problems; reviews outage reports daily for accuracy and develops solutions to mitigate similar future outages for straightforward issues.
- Assist engineering support staff by completing activities to maintain distribution facilities which includes providing information and analysis for distribution maintenance projects.
- Be accountable for all department, ES&H, and Security activities.
- Deliver excellent customer service while ensuring quality, maximizing safety, and maintaining a clean and environmentally friendly campus
- Evaluate Team Leaders and staff, provide direction, support, and opportunities for growth.
- Support hiring, training, and professional development of staff.
Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite 100% of the time.
Qualifications We Require
- Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering or other relevant field plus 8 years’ experience in electrical maintenance, electrical operations, or other relevant experience; or equivalent combination of experience/education (Associate’s + 12 years, no degree + 16 years exempt level experience).
- Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE L security clearance.
Qualifications We Desire
- Minimum of 5 years of progressive leadership experience
- Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering, power systems emphasis preferred
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering with emphasis in Power Distribution Systems
- Experience with High Voltage systems (>600V) maintenance and electrical outage planning.
- Previous experience at Utility, or Power Generation Plants
- Working knowledge in design, maintenance, and operations of electrical apparatuses found in sub-transmission systems, substations, switching stations, and complex commercial/industrial power distribution systems.
- Experience working with bargaining unit/union personnel
- Advanced knowledge and application of engineering processes and procedures.
- Advanced knowledge of engineering and economic principles and concepts.
- Advanced knowledge and experience with electrical codes and standards.
- Advanced use of Microsoft Office Products and presentation skills
About Our Team
Electrical Maintenance provides electrical and utility preventive, predictive, corrective maintenance, and fire suppression services for the Sandia/NM site. The department is responsible for maintenance in the areas of high voltage, fire alarm detection and reporting systems, street lighting, power metering, low voltage building preventative maintenance, emergency lighting/inverters, intrusion alarm system support, electrically operated roll-up doors, gates, and standup generators.
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
Sandia is required by DOE 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 obtain and maintain a DOE L-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 the 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.