Division Director, Technical Division, Electron-Ion Collider

Division Director – Technical Division

The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) is one of the most exciting new scientific facilities to be built in the United States over the next decade. This multi-billion-dollar facility is being built at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The EIC will collide relativistic high energy polarized protons or heavy ions, utilizing particle accelerators and the storage ring from the highly successful Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), with relativistic polarized electrons provided by a new state of the art, high current, polarized electron storage ring with a new electron accelerator complex.

The new ePIC detector, at the EIC collision point, will be a discovery machine, providing answers to long-elusive mysteries of matter related to our understanding of the origin of mass, structure, and binding of atomic nuclei that make up the entire visible universe.

Job Description

The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) Technical Division serves as the Fundamental Interactions and Particles (FIP) Directorate's primary engineering, technical, infrastructure, and project delivery organization. The Division is responsible for the engineering, design, procurement, fabrication, installation, testing, commissioning support, modernization, and lifecycle management of EIC accelerator systems supporting EIC Project execution, commissioning, and long-term operations. The Division also provides matrixed engineering, infrastructure, and technical support across the Directorate and supports the maintenance, repair, and service life extension of Hadron accelerator systems operated by the Accelerator Division.

The Technical Division Director provides strategic leadership and management for the Division's engineering, design, and technical organizations through the Division Section Heads and Engineering Group Leaders. Reporting to the Associate Laboratory Director for FIP, the Division Director works in close partnership with the EIC Project Director and Project Management Team to ensure successful execution of Division responsibilities and long-term operational readiness.

The Technical Division includes the Beam Instrumentation & Controls, Magnet Systems (Normal and Superconducting), Mechanical Systems, Power Supply Systems, Radio Frequency (RF), Vacuum Systems, and Infrastructure Systems groups. The Infrastructure Systems group provides engineering support for Civil/Structural, Electrical Power, Water, and HVAC systems supporting the EIC complex. The Division comprises more than 300 research, engineering, design, and technical staff members.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership & Organizational Development

• Establish the strategic vision, organizational structure, workforce plans, engineering capabilities, and management systems required to successfully design, construct, commission, operate, maintain and modernize the EIC accelerator complex.
• Serve as a member of the FIP Directorate leadership team and contribute to Directorate priorities, resource allocation, organizational initiatives, and long-term planning.
• Develop and implement long-range engineering, infrastructure, technology, and workforce development strategies aligned with Directorate, Laboratory, and DOE objectives.
• Establish performance expectations, monitor organizational effectiveness, and hold Division leadership accountable for achieving technical, operational, financial, and safety objectives.
• Foster a culture of openness, collaboration, respect, innovation, and engineering excellence.

Financial & Resource Management

• Develop, manage, forecast, and execute annual operating and project budgets exceeding $200M.
• Align resources, staffing, and investments with organizational and project objectives.

Technical & Engineering Stewardship

• Provide engineering stewardship and lifecycle management of accelerator systems from conceptual design through construction, commissioning, operation, modernization, and replacement.
• Promote innovation, technology development, and engineering excellence to improve performance, reliability, maintainability, and upgrade capabilities.
• Ensure accelerator systems are delivered, documented, tested, and supported in a manner that enables efficient commissioning, operational readiness, and transition to long-term operations.

Project Execution & Delivery Oversight

• Provide executive leadership for Division resource planning, staffing priorities, organizational commitments, and execution of engineering deliverables in coordination with the EIC Project Management Team and Directorate leadership.
• Ensure effective collaboration among the Division, EIC Project, FIP programs, and operational organizations to successfully deliver Division scope, technical objectives, and project commitments.

Compliance, Quality, & Safety

• Maintain a safe work environment and ensure comprehensive safety reviews, procedures, and documentation.
• Serve as the Division's engineering authority by ensuring consistent application of engineering standards,…