Mission Integration Office Lead; Project-Program Director

What You Will Do

We are seeking a senior level manager to lead a new position within the Weapons Engineering Program Integration Office (ALDW-PO) – a Project-Program Director 4 (PPD-4) to lead the Mission Integration and Special Projects (ALDW-MISP) group. This position reports to the ALDW-PO Project-Program Director 6 and Project-Program Director 5 and will have both program and line responsibilities and authorities.

The Mission Integration and Special Projects (ALDW-MISP) group has been created to focus and develop key capabilities within the Program Office that serve the directorate, the weapons program and our partners across the laboratory. These capabilities will include integrated scheduling, cost estimating, fiscal reporting, risk management, and project planning. Additionally, ALDW-MISP staff will be a resource for the gathering and assimilation of information that will support decision making for the ALDW leadership as well as contribute to analogous functions across LANL.

As the leader of ALDW-MISP, you will be responsible for maintaining, exercising, and enhancing these capabilities to meet the current and anticipated future needs of ALDW. You will:

• Continuously assess the current capabilities of the group against the needs of the directorate.
• Identify gaps internally, as well as in coordination with DDW's Weapons Project-Program Integration Team (WPPIT).
• Maintain a plan to fill all identified gaps either with resources in ALDW-MISP, or through collaboration with other organizations.
• Serve as the Responsible Line Manager (RLM) for the ALDW-MISP staff.
  • Assess the performance of the ALDW-MISP staff.
  • Routinely provide feedback dedicated to the team's continuous learning – this will be done individually as well as in group meetings.
  • Oversee and nurture the professional development of all group members.
• Develop and coordinate a strategy to align the ALDW-PO Investment portfolio against a risk assessment that currently does not exist – this will be a new capability in ALDW-PO, and one that you will be expected to develop.
• Provide oversight for the program managers in the team that are administering R&D Shared Services, OPEX and Investment portfolios.
• Lead the organization, maintenance, and expansion of the ALDW Integrated Schedule to maximize visibility and coordination of resources available to execute mission scope.

• Knowledge and experience with program management of nuclear weapon development, sustainment, weapon capability support, or life extension programs.
• Demonstrated experience in leadership, management, supervision and development of assigned employees in a moderate to large multidisciplinary team.
• Proven ability to work closely with program, project and line management to ensure performance, schedule, and progress against milestones.
• Experience developing execution/implementation plans that cover programmatic work from conception to completion, including defining work breakdown structures to assign programmatic deliverables to projects or other means to accomplish the work.
• Experience integrating schedules within LANL and/or with outside organizations (e.g., Sandia and Lockheed).
• In-depth knowledge of and demonstrated experience in program or project management of technical or operational work, including defining work scope, schedules, budgets, priorities, and performance milestones; developing cost, scope, and schedule baselines; and managing risk.
• Demonstrated use of project management principles and tools to deliver product on schedule, while engaging multiple projects with differing priorities.
• Demonstrated experience in interacting and integrating effectively with external (to include DoW, NNSA, and other agencies) and internal (to include LANL mid to senior leadership) interfaces, building trust, gaining consensus, and resolving conflicts while nurturing relationships.
• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.
• Ability to independently identify opportunities/challenges and resolve problems.

Position requires a Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution and 8 years related experience; or an equivalent…