Manager, Materials Physics Department - Onsite

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About Sandia:

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*

World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://www.sandia.gov

*These benefits vary by job classification.

What Your Job Will Be Like:

The Materials Physics Department Manager (Manager, R&D Science and Engineering, MG) leads an organization that advances the state-of-knowledge in materials and condensed matter sciences by establishing and implementing a vision for forefront science with broad impact in the fundamental and applied scientific communities.

On any given day, you may be called upon to do the following:

• Provide strategic vision, leadership, and assure execution of current activities across a wide range of scientific and mission areas

• Apply scientific and mission knowledge and experience to independently evaluate work quality, performance, and alignment of outcomes with customer expectations

• Set the highest standard for interdisciplinary collaboration, technical excellence, and world-class scientific accomplishments

• Identify research directions and support staff in developing successful proposals in response to external and internal funding opportunities

• Lead the development of customer relationships and funding by understanding and stewarding the organization's work and capabilities, and partnering internally and externally to connect these with potential collaborators, beneficiaries, and customers

• Work with colleagues across Sandia to ensure alignment between the work of the organization and Sandia's strategic objectives

• Oversee and manage members of the workforce, including hiring, professional development, and assessment and performance management, consistent with the mission of the organization

• Oversee and manage deliverables, overall program and project plans, scope, budgets, schedules, and staffing requirements

• Balance the acquisition and development of staff resources, capabilities, in support of existing and future projects and/or programs

• Guide and coach staff in connecting their work to customer needs, organizational goals, and Sandia's missions. Ensure that customer needs are satisfied through the forging and sustainment of trust-based relationships with stakeholders inside and outside Sandia

• Lead the implementation of safe and secure work practices. Participate with internal stakeholders to develop, evaluate, and implement operational methodologies, always seeking efficient and effective approaches to identify and address risks consistent with meeting work scope, schedules, budgets, and organizational goals

• Support the center leadership team in crafting an organizational vision and objectives that are consistent with Sandia's strategic plan and customer expectations

• Assist in planning and coordinating a diverse range of research and development activities and processes for new scientific and technological initiatives within and across the organization

Due to the nature of the work the selected applicant must be able to work onsite.

Salary Range:

$187,100 - $317,900

*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

Qualifications We Require:

• Ph.D. in Materials Science, Physics, Chemistry, or an alternate relevant physical science discipline or an engineering discipline plus two years of demonstrated leadership experience

• Ability and willingness to travel in support of programmatic and scientific objectives and partnership development

• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance

Qualifications We Desire:

• Demonstrated record of world-class technical accomplishments including awards, fellowships, and other recognition of high impact research

• Experience leading integrated experimental, theoretical, and computational materials science research projects and/or programs

• Proven commitment to safe operations in a complex laboratory environment

• Demonstrated success in strategic planning and development

• Exhibited ability to establish and grow research programs

• Demonstrated effectiveness in building and leading multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams or projects; demonstrated ability to build effective relationships and alliances across organizational boundaries

• Experience successfully working with DOE customers and colleagues in academia and other national laboratories

• Strong interpersonal skills, including excellent written and oral communications skills

About Our Team:

The Materials Physics Department pursues fundamental and use-inspired research in the quantum, electronic, atomic, and structural properties of materials to support programs in energy science, device physics, materials aging and reliability, and national security applications. Specifically, we collaborate closely with other domain knowledge experts to use technical advances to enable and accelerate the development of emerging, nonconventional computing, communication, quantum information materials and devices, and sensors, as well as new or enhanced energy storage and energy conversion methods.

Our research efforts include: surface and interface science; investigation of hydrogen-materials interactions; advanced electronic materials and device concepts for low-energy sensing and neuromorphic computing; ultra-fast materials response; novel nano-electronics behaviors; characterization of quantum topological materials and quantum-confined low-dimensional systems; materials synthesis and device fabrication; and quantum and atomic level computational and theoretical condensed matter physics.

The Materials Physics Department's experimental capabilities include ultra-high vacuum scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy (UHV-STM), ultrasensitive thermal desorption mass spectrometer (TDS), scanning ultra-fast electron microscopy (SUEM), X-ray Photoemission Spectroscopy (XPS), Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD), and a microfabrication clean room.

Posting Duration:

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the 'posting date'. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

Security Clearance:

Sandia is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.

Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

EEO:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

NNSA Requirements for MedPEDs:

If you have a Medical Portable Electronic Device (MedPED), such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, drug-releasing pump, hearing aids, or diagnostic equipment and other equipment for measuring, monitoring, and recording body functions such as heartbeat and brain waves, if employed by Sandia National Laboratories you may be required to comply with NNSA security requirements for MedPEDs.

If you have a MedPED and you are selected for an on-site interview at Sandia National Laboratories, there may be additional steps necessary to ensure compliance with NNSA security requirements prior to the interview date.

Job ID: 695150

Job Family: RD

Regular/Temporary Position: R

Full/Part-Time Status: F