Join a Thriving Team Shaping the Future: Are you a dynamic and driven leader? We invite you to take the helm as the director of Sandia’s Pulsed Power Sciences center. Your opportunity awaits to lead a team of dedicated engineers and technologists working in tandem to redefine the future of pulsed power technology.
Drive Sandia's Mission Forward: Develop and apply pulsed-power technology to expand the frontiers of high-energy-density-science, fusion, and extreme radiation environments with the primary goals to provide essential data for the Nation’s nuclear stockpile, to inform present and future stockpile decisions, and to be an engine of discovery for national security.
Collaborate for Impact: Our center is most famous as the home of the Z machine, the world’s largest pulsed power machine. In addition to collaborating with LANL and LLNL on a wide range of High Energy Density (HED) physics to support the nuclear explosive package, we also utilize Z and its other facilities for various stockpile stewardship science applications. Furthermore, we work in partnership with the Radiation and Electrical Science Center to support radiation effects research. We also support dynamic materials research for Nuclear Deterrence (ND) and Strategic Partnership Programs (SPP) projects with the Shock Thermodynamic Applied Research facility (STAR) and the Dynamic Integrated Compression Experimental facility (DICE).
Make Your Mark: This role offers you the chance to leave a lasting mark on Sandia's legacy. As the director of Sandia’s Pulsed Power Sciences center, you'll shape not only our team's success but the trajectory of national security and pulsed power science and technology on a broader scale.
If you're ready to drive change, cultivate excellence and lead in an ever-changing world, we invite you to apply. Join us at Sandia and be the driving force that transforms challenges into triumphs, while leaving an indelible mark on the future. Your journey starts here.
On any given day, you may be called on to promote excellence by:
- Functioning as the Center 1600 line director (i.e., leading the workforce and managing the facilities). The Center is composed of 29 members of management and roughly 300 individual contributors.
- Serving as the Sandia Program Executive for NNSA’s NA-113 Inertial Confinement Fusion and Assessment Science programs. (i.e., manage dollars and set priorities for how those dollars will be allocated)
- Co-chairing the Radiation, Electrical, and High Energy Density Science (REHEDS) Research Foundation (i.e., steward a major research capability area for the laboratory, which includes responsibility for LDRD decisions in this Research Foundation)
- Leading the Center to conduct forefront research, testing, development, engineering, and facility operations in a cost-effective manner with timely delivery of high-quality, technically excellent products in full compliance with applicable requirements.
- Steward and advance all facilities of the Pulsed Power Sciences Center and collaborate to develop and realize plans for sustaining these facilities or realizing replacement facility options.
- Responding to opportunities and requirements to develop support for the development of Sandia capabilities for all of our mission areas.
- Establishing and maintaining transparent and effective relationships with customers and with local and HQ NNSA officials that effectively address and balance the spheres of influence and authority of these customers and officials.
- Leading capability and portfolio development and implementation for the Center across multiple business segments and partner with internal and external customers to clearly define their needs.
- Participating in business excellence initiatives and demonstrating continuous improvement.
- Establishing key performance indicators and regular metric-based reporting.
- Managing direct reports effectively and ensuring effective management in Groups and Departments within the Center.
- Conducting activities in a safe and secure manner and working in accordance with established ES&H requirements to ensure the protection of employees, the public, and the environment.
- Travel required.
Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work on-site.