TTO​/Readiness First Line Manager; Manager of Projects

What You Will Do

The Program Project Interface (PPI) Division is seeking outstanding candidates to join our multi-disciplinary team within the Project to Operations Integration Office (PPI-3). PPI Division plays a critical role in ensuring the successful execution of capital line item and programmatic equipment projects. Serving as a strategic bridge between the Associate Laboratory Director for Weapons Production (ALDWP) and the Associate Laboratory Director for Plutonium Infrastructure (ALDPI), PPI supports the delivery of next-generation facilities, infrastructure, and equipment essential to mission success.

PPI champions operational excellence by representing program owner interests, aligning with program goals, and closely collaborating with project execution teams. Through active engagement in Integrated Project Teams (IPTs) and involvement across the entire project lifecycle, PPI ensures program requirements are met while advancing LANL's mission with integrity, accountability, and strategic partnership.

The Project-to-Operations Integration Office (PPI-3) provides functional management of the New/Revised/Restarted Activity Approval Process at the Laboratory and serves as the primary Transition to Operations (TTO) interface with projects within the PPI portfolio. The selected candidate will serve as a First Line Manager providing functional management to team members supporting large, highly visible, multi-billion-dollar projects that advance LANL's plutonium strategy and production mission.

Working closely with PPI-3 group management, you will lead the TTO and readiness work scope, managing cost, schedule, and integration across multiple capital line-item and non-line-item projects. The Manager of Projects will also engage with senior Laboratory leadership and federal customers to align project execution with strategic priorities for the Weapons Program.

• Support the planning, coordination, and execution of equipment, infrastructure, and facility projects in alignment with transition to operations objectives
• Provide operational supervision and technical guidance to assigned project-management staff and other team members
• Monitor active project work to ensure responsible actions are being taken, project issues are addressed, and deliverables remain aligned with scope, schedule, budget, quality, and safety expectations
• Support cost, schedule, forecasting, change-control, risk, and project-integration activities across assigned projects
• Review and support project execution plans, transition-to-operations plans, continuous-improvement plans, assessments, estimates, schedules, forecasts, and other key project documents
• Partner with LANL directorates including ALDPI, ALDICP, and ALDWP, project execution organizations, facility operations, engineering, procurement, construction, safety management program (SMP) owners, and DOE/NNSA stakeholders to support effective project execution
• Increase cross-organizational efficiency to promote an integrated approach to project delivery
• Support staffing plans, work assignments, hiring, onboarding, performance management, employee development, and recognition for assigned staff
• Promote strong safety, security, quality, compliance, and continuous-improvement culture across assigned work
• Build and sustain trusted relationships with internal and external customers, senior management, peer organizations, and project execution stakeholders

• Leadership
• Demonstrated experience leading technical, operational, or project-management teams in complex or high-consequence environments
• Ability to provide direction, coaching, feedback, and accountability to assigned personnel
• Demonstrated success building trust, encouraging teamwork, resolving conflict, and supporting an inclusive work environment
• Ability to plan, organize, lead, and monitor multidisciplinary team efforts through successful completion
• Ability to support staffing, employee development, performance management, onboarding, and team recognition activities
• Commitment to safety, operational discipline, and continuous improvement

• Thorough knowledge of project management principles, project controls, change control, risk management, and cost/schedule integration
• Experience supporting infrastructure, equipment-installation/upgrades, construction, engineering, operations, nuclear, high-consequence, or mission-critical projects
• Knowledge of construction, engineering, procurement, operations, technical, and project-execution interfaces
• Ability to review, interpret, and communicate project plans, schedules, estimates, forecasts, risks, and performance metrics
• Experience supporting project execution within contractual requirements, quality standards, safety requirements, regulatory expectations, and customer commitments
• Ability to provide guidance on project-management policies, procedures, standards, and programs
• Experience contributing to project staffing plans,…