Data, Sampling and Information Management Division Leader Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, CA

Title:

Data, Sampling & Information Management Division Leader

Location:

Livermore United States

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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.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is seeking a Division Leader for Data, Sampling & Information Management. within the Environment, Safety & Health (ESH) Technical Services Department. This position leads a multidisciplinary team of quality assurance specialists, data managers, developers, sampling and inventory technicians responsible for the data quality, data management, and environmental monitoring programs that support LLNL''s environmental scientists, industrial hygienists, and health physicists.

You will ensure that ES&H data systems, sampling programs, and quality assurance program plans meet U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) standards, U.S. EPA data quality guidance, and applicable regulatory and laboratory accreditation requirements (e.g., ISO 17025, DOELAP). This is a working leadership role that combines people management, program-level quality assurance authorship, data systems governance, and direct engagement with contract laboratories and DOE stakeholders.

The Division Leader also leads the Chemical Inventories Management Group, Chem Track, which maintains an integrated chemical inventory system supporting local, state, and federal regulatory reporting requirements and improving the management of hazardous materials at LLNL.

This position may offer a hybrid schedule, which includes the flexibility to work from home one or more days per week, after a probationary period. The specifics of the hybrid schedule, including the exact number of days required in the office and virtual work options may vary based on the needs of the team and the organization.

• Lead and supervise a team of quality assurance specialists, data managers, and developers, sampling and inventory technicians including performance evaluations, salary and promotion recommendations, and recruiting.
• Direct the QA/QC and Data Management Group''s technical support for data quality compliance, meeting DOE standards and LLNL ES&H policies and procedures.
• Prepare, revise, and maintain data quality assurance program plans consistent with U.S. EPA and other agency guidance on data quality objectives for analytical, instrument calibration, and environmental monitoring systems. Oversee planning and management of environmental monitoring networks, including periodic management self-assessments against program requirements.
• Establish and oversee procedures for data validation in accordance with quality assurance and quality control requirements specified in LLNL Quality Assurance Program Plans; author detailed technical regulatory reports on data quality.
• Develop and execute database queries and analyses (e.g., using the TEIMS environmental data system and Tableau) to compile, review, and summarize environmental and analytical data.
• Manage relationships with contract analytical laboratories to ensure contracting and blanket service agreement requirements are met, including scoping additional laboratory capacity as needed.
• Conduct complex technical reviews, studies, and assessments of environmental monitoring programs and processes, and provide…