Product Engineer – High Explosives PRT

• Job Code 2: SES.
  3 Science & Engineering MTS 3
• Employee Referral Bonus:
  Not applicable
• Job Code 1: SES.
  2 Science & Engineering MTS 2
• Pre-Employment Drug Test:
  Required for external applicant(s) selected for this position (includes testing for use of marijuana)
• Pre-Placement Medical Exam: A job-related pre-placement medical examination may be required
• Security Clearance:
  Anticipated DOE Q clearance (requires U.S. citizenship and a federal background investigation)

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 multiple openings for Product Engineers to support a modernization program. In this role, you will support the High Explosives (HE) Product Realization Team (PRT), contributing to HE material characterization, process development, producibility, surveillance, and the release of product definition, including drawings and specifications, to production agencies. You will also help resolve production partner issues and develop and execute engineering evaluations of production and surveillance processes at manufacturing facilities.

These positions are within the Defense Technologies Engineering Division (DTED) in the Engineering Directorate, which supports Strategic Deterrence (SD) Programs.

These roles may offer a hybrid schedule, with a mix of in-person and virtual work. You may have the flexibility to work from home one or more days per week.

These positions will be filled at either level based on knowledge and related experience as assessed by the hiring team. Additional job responsibilities (outlined below) will be assigned if hired at the higher level.

You will

• Support and coordinate the release of complex engineering drawings and other HE PRT documentation including project plans, qualification plans, design requirement documentation, and interface definition, following standard techniques and methodologies.
• Support the development and documentation of engineering requirements, support explosives material characterization and specification maturation, process development, and lead the product realization process by collaborating with Production Agencies, using defined practices, principles, and concepts.
• Contribute to and/or prepare supporting safety and engineering documentation.
• Participate in engineering test operations, provide engineering support, and collaborate with team members in analyzing results, and writing technical reports.
• Review and support explosives producibility, manufacturability and machining, including requirements tradeoffs and process adjustments, and provide solutions to operational problems of moderate to high complexity.
• Participate in formal and informal engineering design reviews, multi-site PRT meetings, and program reviews.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Additional job responsibilities, at the SES.
3 level

• Utilize advanced engineering knowledge and apply relevant experience and broad technical concepts and techniques to resolve complex technical and programmatic issues.
• Exercise independent judgment to determine methods, techniques, and evaluations criteria to obtain and analyze results, and to provide solutions for a diverse range of moderately complex problems that require the creative use of established or innovative methods and often involve multiple, largely identifiable factors.
• Coordinate and contribute to the execution of explosives testing and data analysis and prepare technical reports, documentation, and presentations.
• Contribute to the successful completion of project and organizational goals and provide input on technical issues for specific tasks and projects.
• Provide guidance and/or informal mentoring to less…