Join us and make YOUR mark on the World! 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. We have an opening for a Group Leader in the Advanced Manufacturing and Materials Processing Section (AMMP) within the Materials Engineering Division (MED).
Requirements
- Provide leadership, supervision, and technical, strategic, and administrative direction, guidance, and support in accomplishing project/program goals and objectives to a multi-disciplinary team of scientists and engineers.
- Collaborate with Project Leaders to identify workforce needs, lead, carry out, and/or coordinate recruiting, hiring, training, career development, and performance and salary management activities as needed to meet programmatic staffing, employee development, and performance related needs, including providing career counseling, mentoring, and coaching, and monitoring employee performance goals and conducting annual employee performance reviews.
- Establish project objectives, strategies, and technical direction for team, and collaborate with Engineering Center Leaders and Section Leaders to identify and lead complex technical work assignments, by defining work objectives, guiding workload planning for projects among group members, assigning work, remaining aware of complex technical goals, problems and solutions, tracking and monitoring project milestones, and obtaining ongoing performance feedback.
- Provide technical, safety, and security leadership to group personnel and activities, ensuring team compliance with all safety and operational standards.
- Advise and evaluate staff on the execution of technical work via formal reviews.
- Lead and engage team in thoughtful and comprehensive peer reviews of complex engineering designs, providing expert technical analysis and recommendations for design optimization, and applying advanced knowledge and using innovative methods/technology where applicable to ensure technical excellence.
- Provide, present, and explain technical updates and give advice to senior leadership, customers, and external sponsors.
- Monitor and influence the work environment to develop employee morale and well-being.
- Provide support to the section leader to address organizational needs.
- Guide the completion of projects and contribute to the development of organizational goals.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Work with Division Leader and Section Leader to perform high-level goal setting, contribute to strategic planning efforts for long range goals, and to identify new opportunities.
- Develop solutions to highly unusual, highly complex, and/or sensitive issues/problems where the solution path is not known ahead of time, require in-depth analysis of multiple tangible and intangible factors, and involve the creative use of established and/or innovative methods.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for the program at meetings, briefings, design reviews, and committee activities both internal and external to the Laboratory.
- Pilot change by developing new projects or programs, modifying approaches, and/or redefining customer requirements to impact operations or directions, working across stakeholder groups to identify and implement process improvements, and making recommendations and providing strategic technical advice to management and external customers.
Benefits
- Flexible Benefits Package
- 401(k)
- Relocation Assistance
- Education Reimbursement Program
- Flexible schedules
- Wireless and Medical Devices
