Cleared Senior​/Principal R&D Systems Engineer - FENG Product Realization Team Lead, Onsite

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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*

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We are looking for highly motivated, team-oriented individual to serve as the product realization team lead (PRT Lead) to develop a ferroelectric neutron generator (FENG) for the W87-1 modernization program. In this role you will combine your engineering expertise, knowledge of performance requirements and manufacturability, and leadership skills to direct a team toward creating a design that meets the performance, schedule, and cost requirements of the customer.

The successful candidate will lead a technical team with diverse technical backgrounds within the department as well as co‑workers in the production and design organizations within of Neutron Generators and Energetic Components. As the face of the team, you will interact regularly with our customer, the W87-1 Modernization team, to provide regular updates on technical design work, discuss budget and schedule, communicate projects risks as they develop, and respond to program requests when they arise.

• Support the W87-1 NG PRT with advancing and maturing a new FENG design.
• Act as the primary representative for the PRT for programmatic and technical issues, coordinating with the weapon system engineer (WSE) to report to Systems and Federal Program Managers (FPMs) as needed.
• Work with systems partners to further refine product requirements and definition.
• Educate the customer, as needed, with an overview of the operation, fabrication, and sustainment of NGs, to explain the rationale behind design choices. Articulate the value, in terms of cost and schedule, of the design choices.
• Ensure the technical basis for design decisions are appropriately documented.
• Define PRT member roles and set clear priorities to coordinate…