Energetic Materials Development Enclave Campus Facility Manager

Facility Manager – Energetic Materials Development Enclave Campus (EMDEC) – Site 300

This full‑time, on‑site role is located within the Facilities Operations and Support (FOS) Organization of the Strategic Deterrence Directorate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The Facility Manager leads a multidisciplinary team that oversees facility operations, programmatic functions, and external outreach for explosives development, experimentation, environmental and engineering testing, advanced manufacturing, and diagnostic development activities.

• Provide advanced technical leadership and oversight for day‑to‑day facility operations, including conduct of operations, work planning and control, ES&H requirements, safety basis, training, assessment programs, hazardous waste, air permits, and safety management programs.
• Oversee explosive activities, ensuring operations remain within the approved safety basis envelope and comply with DOE Explosives Safety Standard and industry standards.
• Deconflict and schedule complex activities, ensuring alignment with the change‑request process.
• Allocate and assign operators and support personnel to execute facility and programmatic activities safely and efficiently.
• Maintain overall responsibility for maintenance and outage schedules, balancing priorities, budget, personnel resources, and facility availability to support program work.
• Implement continuous improvement processes for safety and efficiency using assessments, oversight, performance metrics, and tools.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Contribute to validation and conceptual plans for new ideas, modify approaches, and refine facility requirements and interactions across S300 explosives facilities.
• Lead complex facility projects, including conceptual design, siting, estimates, construction, and project acceptance.
• Develop and maintain positive relationships with key stakeholders, serve as a subject‑matter expert, provide advice, and influence strategic technical decisions.

• Must secure and maintain a U.S. DOE Q‑level security clearance (U.S. citizenship required).
• Bachelor’s degree in Explosive Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry, Electronics Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Extensive experience overseeing complex hazardous operations, including work planning in high‑explosives or other high‑hazard facilities.
• Experience supervising and managing multidisciplinary teams at both professional and technical levels.
• Experience writing workflows, work‑procedures, conducting assessments, and providing management recommendations, including post‑incident reviews.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, technical, leadership, interpersonal, and collaboration skills for senior management, external sponsors, regulators, reviewers, and stakeholders.
• Experience creating complex project plans and developing solutions for state‑of‑the‑art research and development facilities or high hazard operations.
• Experience with risk assessment techniques such as Failure Modes Effects Analysis, Layers of Protection Analysis, What‑if Analysis, or similar tools to establish new operations.
• Experience working with and handling high‑hazard materials in a research capacity (e.g., high explosives).

• Extensive experience implementing new ideas and approaches that impact organizational operations or direction.
• Extensive experience solving highly complex issues where ambiguity exists.
• Knowledge of NNSA Design Agency management and structure, including supervision, budget, policies, and processes.

• Certified LLNL Explosives Handler or equivalent training.
• Knowledge of the LLNL Explosives enterprise, including service on the Explosives Safety Committee or subcommittee and the HE Handler Training Program.
• Understanding of the regulatory framework around Process Safety Management and air permits as applied to Site 300.
• Understanding of Laboratory mission, business trends, and procurement sponsors.

• $200,760 – $305,544 annually (TSL.
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• $240,960 – $305,544 annually (TSL.
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