Senior Project Management Engineer – Bioscience

Senior Project Management Engineer – Bioscience

Join us and make YOUR mark on the World!

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has turned bold ideas into world-changing impact advancing science and technology to strengthen U.S. security and promote global stability.

Our mission spans four critical national security areas nuclear deterrence, threat preparedness, energy security, and multi-domain defense empowering teams to take on the toughest challenges of today and tomorrow. With a culture built on innovation and operational excellence, LLNL is a place where your expertise can make a real impact.

We have an opening for a Senior Project Management Engineer to lead and support the execution of milestone-driven, high-risk, high-reward national security projects in fast-paced, multidisciplinary environments. This position sits at the intersection of project management rigor and technical fluency. The ideal candidate brings sufficient technical depth to engage credibly with sponsors and technical leads, representing the project's needs and status independently while knowing when to escalate to project leadership.

You will work alongside Principal Investigators and technical experts to deliver results on aggressive timelines by driving technical solutions, cost, schedule, and risk management, reporting, and stakeholder management across highly complex scientific and engineering landscapes. The position emphasizes initiative, autonomy, and ownership in both planning and execution, serving as the connection between internal teams, external collaborators, and project sponsors. This position will be in the Materials Engineering Division (MED) within the Engineering Directorate.

This position offers a hybrid schedule, blending in-person and virtual presence. You will have the flexibility to work from home one or more days per week.

You will

• Lead project planning and direct technical tasks for highly complex, high-impact scientific and engineering efforts while using independent judgment to accomplish project objectives.
• Develop, maintain, and prioritize tasking across integrated technical project plans, schedules, milestones, and cross-project dependencies as part of a multi-institute team.
• Implement project controls to support cost, schedule, quality, and risk objectives, and solve highly complex risks and issues utilizing in-depth, multi-factor analysis.
• Facilitate effective communication, coordination, and alignment among internal teams, external collaborators, and Federal sponsors and synthesize and communicate technical information for reports, proposals, briefings, and milestone updates.
• Advise project leaders, technical teams, and senior managers on scope, organization, budgeting, scheduling, quality, risk, and deliverables.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams to ensure integrated execution across experimental, computational, engineering, and business functions and promote safe, compliant, and efficient project execution through application of technical and operational knowledge.
• Contribute to the advancement of project management tools and utilize these tools and reporting methods to track tasks, communicate status, and support decision-making.
• Drive process improvement efforts to strengthen project execution, operational efficiency, and stakeholder coordination.
• Support procurement, fabrication, integration, contract coordination, and collaboration agreements as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Energy Q-level security clearance, equivalent to a DoD Top Secret clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, project management, or a related field, or the equivalent combination of education and related experience
• Experience working in a biological laboratory or experimental R&D environment.
• Experience managing large, complex technical projects with the ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated ability to represent project status, risks, and needs directly to sponsors or senior stakeholders, with judgment to resolve…