Project-Program Director

What You Will Do

The Associate Laboratory Directorate, Weapons Production (ALDWP), at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) enables credible and sustainable strategic deterrence for the nation through the production of plutonium pits, detonators, and other non-nuclear components, along with the necessary evaluation that ensures safe and reliable products. The directorate's programs support multiple aspects of the nuclear security enterprise (NSE) and national security mission, including plutonium processing and disposition, high explosives and non-nuclear component production, manufacturing for NASA deep space missions, surveillance, materials management, and waste operations.

ALDWP must simultaneously expand capacity and mature rate production for pits and detonators, while continuing to build on its high-precision, high-quality manufacturing capabilities for non-nuclear parts fabrication.

The Associate Laboratory Directorate, Weapons Production (ALDWP), at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) enables credible and sustainable strategic deterrence for the nation through the production of plutonium pits, detonators, and other non-nuclear components, along with the necessary evaluation that ensures safe and reliable products. The directorate's programs support multiple aspects of the nuclear security enterprise (NSE) and national security mission, including plutonium processing and disposition, high explosives and non-nuclear component production, manufacturing for NASA deep space missions, surveillance, materials management, and waste operations.

ALDWP must simultaneously expand capacity and mature rate production for pits and detonators, while continuing to build on its high-precision, high-quality manufacturing capabilities for non-nuclear parts fabrication. The ADLWP Senior Directors office (Stockpile Production Management, ALDWP-SPM) ensures the effectiveness of the stockpile by providing key components and services with quality, reliability, and responsiveness. Stockpile Production Management supports and is responsible for the ALDWP production agency (PA) program office managing the NA-12 weapons portfolios in NA-121, NA-122 and NA-125 along with direct oversight of the weapon detonator production mission at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The ALDWP-SPM Senior Director organization scope includes enabling production of detonators, non-nuclear components, radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs), and surveillance (pits, detonators, actuators, RTGs). ALDWP-SPM also supports weapon production in various ways (i.e. Production Operations, Weapons Dismantlement & Disposition team, Product Maturation, Metrology, etc...). The organization provides guidance and leadership to each designated team to meet the production mission across ALDWP and ensure collaboration with other groups at LANL and sites across the complex.

The Senior Director for Stockpile Production Management (ALDWP-SPM) office is seeking highly qualified candidates at the Project-Program Director 4 (PPD
4) level to manage NA-12 program portfolios. The PPD 4 vacancies will serve as program lead for one of our NA-12 programs (e.g., Production Operations, W88/W93 Programs, B61 Program, and Stockpile Sustainment Surveillance), providing overall leadership and management for their assigned program portfolio. The PPD 4 will be responsible for program development and/or program management of their respective program to ensure the overall deliverables and outcomes of their program are successfully managed.

The PPD 4 will be responsible for ensuring life cycle and annually based program resource loaded schedules are maintained or developed and that the schedules are managed and status on a routine basis with…