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.
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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.
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Salary Range
$88,600 – $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 to support and manage the W87-1 Cables HW & Material Requirements Schedule (MRS) scope. This role will assume primary responsibility for developing a new supplemental schedule to track and manage updates to the cables MRS. This role will be the lead for cable procurement planning, tracking, report development and analysis. In addition, this PC will be responsible for schedule status, collaboration, communication across technical areas and sites to help assure quantity, pedigree and NLA needs are met. A strong understanding of schedule development, Primavera P6, SNL procurement knowledge, Praxis and W87-1 program experience would be key success factors for this role.
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 develop and capture current hardware needs for program needs.
- Critically analyze large amounts of data to find changes, logically link to developed schedules and work with technical and programmatic partners to assure concurrence among different component teams or sites.
- Team with technical staff, project leads and managers to make recommendations to influence key decision makers within the scope of project controls (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, produce reports, and track variances and recommends corrective action.
- Analyze, prepare, validate, and maintain cost estimates, compare to detailed baseline budgets, work package agreements, and write 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.
**Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite over 80% of the time.
Qualifications We Require
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline, plus eight or more years of experience; or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience that demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of the job.
- Knowledge of and/or experience with scheduling best practices, including work breakdown structure development, schedule logic and dependencies, change control and Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS).
- Experience working with Project management tools; including Primavera P6, Cobra, EBI, Milestone Pro, Praxis.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level Security Clearance.
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 using Praxis software.
- Experience placing, monitoring, and tracking procurements and ICOs on behalf of technical staff.
- 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.
- Experience on the W87-1 or other high rigor ND project.
- 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 skills, decision analysis skills and facilitation skills.
- Active DOE Q-Level Security Clearance or DOD equivalent to start.
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
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 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.
Position Information
This Limited Term Employee (LTE) position is a temporary position for one year term, which may be renewed at Sandia’s discretion up to a maximum of seven years.
Individuals in LTE positions may bid on regular Sandia positions as internal candidates, and in some cases may be converted to regular career positions during their term if warranted by ongoing operational needs, continuing availability of funds, and satisfactory job performance.