Program Manager III

Overview

Longenecker & Associates (L&A), a Geosyntec Company, is a trusted partner enabling critical missions across the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) complex for more than 30 years. We contribute to DOE’s nuclear security and environmental remediation enterprise by providing the highest-caliber staff and experts. We are seeking a motivated Program Manager III to contribute to our mission supporting our work at Los Alamos National Lab in Los Alamos, NM
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Geosyntec is an innovative, international engineering and consulting firm serving private and public‑sector clients to address new ventures and complex problems involving our environment, natural resources, and civil infrastructure. Our engineers, scientists, technical and project employees serve our clients from offices across the world. Ranked by ENR as one of the top environmental engineering design firms, Geosyntec is internationally known for its technical leadership, broad experience, and exceptional client service.

We invest in our people. Each employee is unique, and your career at Geosyntec will be too. We offer competitive pay and benefits, and well‑being programs to support you and your family.

The program manager provides leadership and overall management of an assigned technical or operational portfolio, which may be large or small in total budget and may encompass one or more discrete programs. The program manager brokers with customers and individual researchers or research groups/programs to determine what work will be done to meet the customer’s needs, general time frames, and funding requirements.

The program manager is expected to develop working relationships that span existing internal and/or external institutional missions and extend into new opportunities as policies, missions, and opportunities evolve. Programs are a complex set of related activities needed to produce products or services over time to meet customer requirements within a given mission area. Programs are often ongoing over multiple years and evolve in response to the customers changing needs.

The customer may be an external body, such as a federal agency, or may be an internal organization within the Laboratory.

• Bachelors degree and 8 years of related management experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Post graduate course work may be desirable.

• Position requires advanced knowledge of and successfully demonstrated experience in all aspects of program management of technical or operational work, including defining program work scope, schedules, budgets, priorities, and performance milestones; developing cost, scope, and schedule baselines; reporting cost and schedule variance; and managing change control and risk.
• Successfully demonstrated experience in interacting effectively with all levels of internal and/or external personnel; building trust, gaining consensus, and resolving conflicts.
• Successfully demonstrated experience in developing and nurturing effective internal and/or external customer relationships.
• Advanced knowledge of regulatory and Laboratory requirements related to programmatic work of assigned portfolio(s).
• Advanced knowledge of the technical or operational discipline of the assigned portfolio(s).
• Due to federal contract security requirements, this position requires U.S. Citizenship. (required)
• Due to federal contract security requirements, candidates must be able to successfully pass a federal background investigation to secure and maintain DOE Q security clearance. (required)
• Health & Safety training, medical monitoring, and client‑driven drug and background testing. (required)

Please note that marijuana remains a Schedule III controlled substance under Federal Law. Federal contractors must follow Federal drug‑free workplace rules, which prohibit marijuana use, even if medical or recreational use is permitted under State Law.

• Active Q Clearance.
• Los Alamos National Lab – NM
• Onsite Position.
• 9/80 schedule