EMAPS Area Supervisor

EMAPS Area Work Supervisor

Posting Title EMAPS Area Work Supervisor . Location CO - Golden . Position Type Regular . Hours Per Week 40 . Working at NLR NLR is located at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Golden, Colorado is the nation's primary laboratory for energy systems research and development. Join the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), where world-class scientists, engineers, and experts are accelerating energy innovation through breakthrough research and systems integration.

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The Material, Chemical, and Computational Sciences (MCCS) directorate is seeking an Area Work Supervisor to support work in the new flagship scale-up facility for the Department of Energy’s Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation (CMEI). The Energy Materials and Processing at Scale (EMAPS) facility, located on the South Table Mountain (STM) campus of the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), will house a broad range of research from all directorates at the lab to meet CMEI goals for accelerating the scale-up of laboratory-scale innovations into market-relevant prototypes and competitive manufacturing processes for critical minerals and electronic and functional materials.

The Area Work Supervisor will serve a critical role in the EMAPS Research Operations team, working with NLR research teams, EMAPS Research Operations, matrixed support staff, as well as industrial, academic, and other National Lab partners to facilitate project start up, and safe and impactful research activities in EMAPS. The objective of this position is mission-focused, customer-oriented support, and is a service role to enable successful research in EMAPS.

The successful candidate will report to the EMAPS Research Operations Manager (ROM) and help ensure all research and operational activities in their assigned work area are coordinated and successfully enabled within the framework of applicable policies and procedures. Initially, this role will focus on establishing Phase 1 research labs in EMAPS, including supporting and coordinating laboratory fit out, optimization and coordination of laboratory space and early project starts.

Future scope will include enabling safe and secure research operations, and managing project and equipment turnover. EMAPS will have a compute first approach for AI driven workflows and this role will work with researchers and other AI/AE support roles to ensure successful application of autonomous workflows in research labs. Key research areas for EMAPS include electronic materials prototyping and processing, membranes and advanced separations, thermal and non-thermal processing, performance enhanced chemicals, batteries, power electronics, and industrial process innovation.

This position is based in Golden, Colorado, at the South Table Mountain Campus. The successful candidate will be expected to work primarily on site.

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