Machine Shop Manager; Manufacturing Manager

Position: Machine Shop Manager (Manufacturing Manager 3)
** What You Will Do*
* ** This position is open for external candidates only to apply.*
* Los Alamos National Laboratory's Prototype Fabrication Division invites you to join us in Los Alamos, New Mexico! Our team is hiring a Deputy Group Leader (DGL) to provide exceptional operational, programmatic and technical leadership for the Prototype Fabrication Division's Manufacturing Group (PF-MFG).

The Manufacturing Group provides both unclassified and classified, non-hazardous and hazardous prototype manufacturing capabilities across a diverse set of materials and components to support the Laboratory's core weapons program and other customer needs. We are a team of machinists, welders, manufacturing engineers, planners, schedulers, and other experts. We are proud of the high-precision and critical manufacturing we perform to support the Laboratory's Mission.

The DGL will assist in ensuring that the proper infrastructure and resources are available to meet programmatic demands and will support the development of methods and techniques for both general and specialized manufacturing. Specific capabilities which reside within PF-MFG include work acceptance and execution, precision machining and fabrication, welding, CNC programming, and specialized tooling design and development. These capabilities are applied to both standard materials and those with hazardous characteristics to include beryllium and depleted uranium.

The DGL will help establish and maintain a proper safety, security, environmental and quality assurance envelope to conduct fabrication operations in accordance with applicable Laboratory, federal, and state requirements.

** Responsibilities for this position include, but are not limited to the following:*
* + Assisting in strategic planning, organizing, and managing work acceptance and execution for PF Division.

+   Development of group resources to enable execution of work in support of the hydrodynamic, subcritical, global security and work for others.

+   Assisting in the management of Integrated Work Documents (IWD's) to ensure work is approved and authorized.

+   Assisting in the management of training to ensure workers are qualified and authorized.

+   Support the development of personnel to promote excellence at all levels and establish an environment of trust and mutual respect.

+   Assist the Group Leader in recruiting, staffing, and diversity; performance appraisals and employee development; addressing and resolving personnel issues; time and labor approvals and salary management; overall quality, and effectiveness, planning for capabilities; and security issues.

+   Assist with financial management, oversight, and staffing planning and forecasting.

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** What You Need*
* ** Minimum

Job Requirements:

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* + Experience successfully managing and leading machining and fabrication operations at small and intermediate sized machine shops.

+   Experience in the application of sound business practices and judgment, excellent fiscal management skills, excellent strategic and tactical planning skills, technical advocacy, and the achievement of goals of significant impact, complexity, or size.

+   Experience in managing hazardous operations requiring formality of operations.

+   Demonstrated success in all functional areas of line management.

+   Demonstrated ability to build and grow both internal and external organizational relations.

+   Knowledge of industrial manufacturing processes and equipment.

+   Excellent interpersonal communication skills, both oral and written, with an achievement of strong peer-to-peer relationships, demonstrated negotiation skills, and the ability to work across technical and organizational boundaries to accomplish program goals.

+   Demonstrated record of dependability, reliability, and commitment to the long-term needs of the job duties and programmatic goals of the organization.

** Education/

Experience:

** Position requires a Bachelor's Degree in a related field from an accredited institution and 5 years of related experience; or, an equivalent combination of education and experience directly related to the occupation.

** Desired

Qualifications:

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* + A strong record of…