Team Lead, Structural Dynamics, Onsite

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 vacations, 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:

We are seeking a strong leader to be the Experimental Structural Dynamics Department Team Lead. Our team is responsible for dynamic characterization and large-scale vibration testing at Sandia National Laboratories, and we are recognized leaders in the field of Structural Dynamics. Join a team that helps tackle some of the most challenging issues facing our nation's security!

Our department is responsible for testing operations in four different facilities at Sandia as well as off-site collaborator locations. In the Team Lead role, you will support the team and Department Manager by leading tactical operations, by supporting day-to-day needs as well as driving initiatives to improve our team's ability to deliver on Sandia's mission. On any given day you may be called on to:

• Work with the Department Manager to help conceive and implement operational team strategies, goals, and initiatives.

• Enable, empower, and develop world class technologists in the structural dynamics discipline.

• Interface with our lab leads to ensure equipment and facilities are operational and tasks are being prioritized appropriately.

• Collaborate with our mission partners to ensure we are executing Sandia's mission with excellence.

• Lead regular 1:1 meetings and performance evaluations with technologists and early-career staff members.

• Oversee PO contractor support and associated SDR responsibilities.

• Ensure equipment and facilities are ready, maintained, and operational to meet our ever-evolving mission.

• Manage the team's Operations and Programmatic Equipment budgets.

• Maintain current capabilities and drive advancements.

• Lead work planning and controls for test operations, including necessary management reviews, analysis, and job training records to ensure overall ES&H compliance.

• Ensure operational security and compliance is met.

• Support operational standup meetings for the team.

• Ensure our periodic maintenance program is robust and implemented.

• Support a close working relationship with other structural dynamics capabilities within Group 1520 (Component Vibration, Shock, Vibrafuge, etc).

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

Salary Range:

$133,800 - $227,500

*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:

• Master's degree in engineering, physics, or other STEM related field and one-year relevant experience

• Experience in the field of Structural Dynamics, particularly vibration and modal testing

• Three years of Leadership experience

• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q Clearance

Qualifications We Desire:

• Demonstrated ability to partner with leadership, customers, peers, and colleagues to achieve successful outcomes

• Ability to organize, prioritize, and drive completion of multiple tasks

• Ability to work through change for positive outcomes that considers safety, security, execution, and mission partners

• Experience leading on-the-job training programs

• Previous experience working in Sandia's ecosystem and strong understanding of the Lab's mission.

• Experience working with Sandia's Facilities partners to ensure our facilities and capabilities remain operational

• Demonstrated expertise in working with Data Acquisition Systems

About Our Team:

The Experimental Structural Dynamics Department (01522) is an integral part of the Engineering Sciences Center at Sandia National Laboratories. Our Center is the steward of engineering mechanics and dynamics for Sandia, and we are dedicated to solving our customer's most pressing and important national security problems. Our capabilities primarily comprise system-level vibration testing, modal characterization testing, mass properties testing, as well as field data acquisition and instrumentation support. Our vibration capability specializes in conducting mission-critical mechanical environments tests for qualification and acceptance evidence of full systems. Our modal capability specializes in experimental diagnostic methods to characterize the inherent dynamic properties of structures and their complex response under operational environments. Our instrumentation and field data acquisition capability supports high-consequence environmental tests in many different locations and situations. We collaborate closely with our colleagues in the Analytical Structural Dynamics and Environmental Engineering departments. Our department also maintains a considerable Research & Development portfolio with focus areas including hybrid system modeling/substructuring, advanced multi-axis ground testing methods, nonlinear dynamics, transfer path analysis, experimental uncertainty quantification, and high-speed non-contact diagnostics. Our mission is to support the qualification of systems critical to our nation's security and to constantly pursue new avenues for excellence through fundamental research and development opportunities.

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: 694775

Job Family: RD

Regular/Temporary Position: R

Full/Part-Time Status: F