Cleared Senior​/Principal PRT Lead - W80-5 Systems Engineering Team, NM​/CA, Onsite

About Sandia

Sandia National Laboratories is the nation's premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:

* Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide

* Extraordinary co-workers

* Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world

* Career advancement and enrichment opportunities

* Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)

* Generous vacation, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance
* World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..gov

* These benefits vary by job classification.

What Your Job Will Be Like

We are seeking a Product Realization Team (PRT) Lead (job title: R&D Systems Engineer) for the W80-5 Enhanced Capability Shipping Configuration (ECSC). In this role, you will lead the realization of components critical to the fielding of the new W80-5 warhead. The ECSC consists of a weapon agnostic subsystem integrated into the W80-5 shipping configuration to provide over the road security.

You'll have an opportunity to partner with engineering and research teams across the broader Nuclear Security Enterprise to design, produce, test, and integrate these products into the broader W80-5 warhead design. You will also work with other groups such as production agencies and vendors, an operations center, multiple interfacing PRTs, the customer (NNSA), and end users (PANTEX and the Navy).

On any given day, you may be called upon to:

* Lead a PRT to field high-integrity products, meeting both technical and programmatic requirements

* Utilize your expertise in engineering to serve as a Subject Matter Expert in areas of design, production, or qualification of components

* Employ analytical thinking to work through ambiguous problems with a multi-disciplinary team

* Leverage electrical, mechanical, process, test, and manufacturing engineering skills to identify robust and practical solutions

* Develop innovative design concepts through requirements negotiation, trade studies, and virtual prototyping

* Mature designs to a production-ready state through iterative design-build-test cycles and collaboration with the production agency

* Define test activities that demonstrate robustness in a variety of environments at various levels of assembly

* Advance new engineering processes to improve the efficiency of product development

* Mentor and train less experienced engineers

* Estimate, negotiate, and manage project budgets and schedules using earned value management

* Present your work to peers, customers, and management in formal and informal settings

This position will offer you substantial opportunity for training, technical mentorship, and work across multiple sites within the Nuclear Security Enterprise.

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite 100% of the time at either Livermore, CA or Albuquerque, NM facility.

The position requires an ability to travel up to 15% to support the mission.

Applicants on this requisition may be interviewed by multiple organizations at Sandia National Laboratories.

Salary Range

$117,500 - $235,700

* Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

Qualifications We Require

* A Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline and five (5) years of directly relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of directly relevant education and engineering or scientific experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform independent research and development.

* Position requires an active DOE Q-level security clearance or equivalent to start.

Qualifications We Desire

The ideal R&D S&E Systems Engineer candidate for Sandia National Laboratories will in addition possess the following:

* Graduate degree in Engineering or a highly related field where an independent research project was a graduation requirement (e.g., independent project, thesis, or dissertation).

* Experience working with Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE) laboratories and plants including Pantex, Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), and Kansas City National Security Campus/New Mexico Operations (KCNSC/NMO).

* Experience working on engineering design, qualification, production, or related modeling/simulation projects.

* Strong verbal and written…