Associate Division Director, APS Engineering Support; AES

The Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory seeks an Associate Division Director (ADD) to provide leadership for a major science and technology area within the APS Engineering Support Division (AES). Reporting to the AES Division Director, the ADD provides strategic, operational, and technical leadership across a portfolio comprising the Information Solutions, Information Technology, and Mechanical Design and Drafting groups.

The ADD serves on the AES senior leadership team, contributes to Photon Sciences Directorate initiatives, and is accountable for the division’s success across a broad range of strategic and tactical performance requirements.

The APS is one of the world’s most productive hard X-ray light sources and a national scientific resource operated by Argonne National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy. The APS Engineering Support Division delivers the mechanical, electrical, controls, safety, information technology, and information solutions capabilities required to operate the accelerator complex and the associated beamlines and provides engineering services to the broader APS scientific enterprise.

AES is a large, multidisciplinary organization operating in an environment that requires strong safety culture, disciplined engineering practice, and continuous coordination with the Accelerator Division, the X-ray Science Division, and Argonne’s central services.

• Provide senior leadership, direction, mentorship, and performance management to the leaders of the Information Solutions, Information Technology, and Mechanical Design and Drafting groups, and, through them, to the staff of those groups.
• Serve as a member of the AES senior leadership team, contributing to division-wide strategy, workforce planning, budget development, and operational decision-making.
• Foster a culture of safety, technical excellence, professional development, inclusion, and cross-group collaboration; act as a role model for the Argonne Core Values.
• Recruit, retain, and develop a functionally diverse and high-performing workforce; oversee succession planning for key technical and leadership positions within the portfolio.

• Set the strategic direction for the assigned groups in alignment with AES and APS priorities and translate that direction into an actionable roadmap with clear phases, milestones, deliverables, and measurable outcomes.
• Develop the tactical implementation plans required to deliver on the roadmap: define scope, sequencing, resource commitments, dependencies, decision gates, and risk mitigations; validate that plans are executable within the available capacity and budget; and secure commitment from the responsible group leaders and stakeholders.
• Drive the successful execution of those plans through active operational leadership: hold groups accountable to committed milestones and outcomes; anticipate and address risks and blockers early; adjust the plan when circumstances change without losing sight of strategic intent; and personally intervene when a critical initiative is at risk.
• Lead the AES contribution to enterprise digital initiatives — modernization of the digital infrastructure, integration and rationalization of engineering business systems, and establishment of a unified engineering data thread across the organization — from mission need definition through detailed implementation to sustained operation.
• Champion and personally own the modernization of mechanical design and drafting capabilities, including CAD, PLM, and digital engineering workflows; ensure that the transition from current state to modernized capability is delivered on schedule and…