Come join our team at Jefferson Lab, where great minds matter.
Posting Date: 03/18/24
Salary Range: $144,100 - $231,700 (SSA)
Work Location Type: Hybrid (combination of on and off-site work)
What your job will look like:
Jefferson Lab is an internationally recognized nuclear physics research and development center located on a modern 160-acre campus in Newport News, Virginia. The campus is home to over 900 scientists, engineers, and support staff that design, develop, and operate advanced superconducting radio frequency accelerators and serve a 1,600-member user community pursuing discovery-class research.
The HPDF (High Performance Data Facility) Project Director will guide the efforts of intra- and inter-laboratory teams of professionals to ensure the delivery of the project from concept to completion.
In this role you will:
- Support timely and accurate communications with DOE, Integrated Project Team, and other key stakeholders. Facilitate project communications up, down, and across engaged organizations.
- Create project plans that inform the time, funding, and resources required for successful project completion and clearly communicate these requirements to governance entities.
- Execute the HPDF project within the DOE approved baselines and to DOE standards for project management, such as DOE Order 413.3b; apply tailoring strategy as appropriate for Office of Science projects.
- Plan, host, present, and ensure the successful outcome of DOE independent reviews and assessments of the HPDF project.
- Work with a variety of technical teams, computer vendors, and construction managers to coordinate the building of first-of-a-kind user facility that includes computational system, data storage, and software and conventional facilities elements.
- Work with the HPDF Facility Director in the development and communication of HPDF plans and budgets.
- Support the Laboratory in the implementation and execution of JLab and DOE mission and goals.
- Work with the Facility Director and DOE Program Manager to ensure the project and its subsequent operations have the appropriate resources and funding for success.
Qualifications We Require:
Education:
- Bachelor's Degree in Management, Business, or STEM related field.
Experience:
- 15 years of experience leading teams to accomplish highly complex technical objectives.
- 5 or more years of experience managing technical projects with a cost of $10M or larger.
- 5 or more years of experience managing research computing or related projects within the DOE laboratory system.
- 5 or more years of experience managing federally funded research projects and their related financial requirements.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Demonstrated natural problem-solver, solutions oriented, able to progress solutions from high ambiguity to concrete plans.
- Demonstrated ability to negotiate high-value contracts with technology vendors.
- Demonstrated ability to work with U.S. Government program managers.
- Possesses exemplary communication skills and the ability to work with a broad spectrum of contributors and stakeholders to establish and achieve complex goals in a fast-paced environment.
- High emotional intelligence (i.e. self-awareness, self-management, motivation, empathy, and social skills).
- Able to understand and communicated complex project and funding related financial information.
Qualifications We Desire:
- Project Management Training and Certification.
- Master's Degree Management, Business, or STEM related field.
- 4 or more years' experience directing or managing a DOE O413.3b project.
- 5 or more years' experience within the DOE ASCR Program Office.
About Jefferson Lab
Join a community with a common purpose of solving the most challenging scientific and engineering problems of our time. The Jefferson Lab campus is located in southeastern Virginia amidst a vibrant and growing technology community.
A career at Jefferson Lab is more than a job. You will be part of “big science” and work alongside top scientists and engineers from around the world unlocking the secrets of our visible universe. Managed by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC; Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is entering an exciting period of mission growth and is seeking new team members ready to apply their skills and passion to have an impact. You could call it work, or you could call it a mission. We call it a challenge. We do things that will change the world.
Total Rewards at Jefferson Lab
At Jefferson Lab, we believe that a comprehensive employee benefits program is an important and meaningful part of the compensation employees receive. Our benefits program includes, but is not limited to:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Care Plans
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Paid Time-off and Leave Programs (Paid Parental, vacation, holidays, and sick leave)
- 401(k) Plan – 9% Lab Contribution; 100% vested
- Flexible Work Arrangements (Remote & Alternate Work Schedules available)
- Tuition Assistance, Training and Professional Development Programs
- Live near the waterways of the Chesapeake Bay region with access to nearby beaches, mountains, and all major metropolitan centers on the East Coast
Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (JSA) manages and operates the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab). JSA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, or veteran status or on any other basis prohibited by federal, state, or local law. As part of the JSA’s equal employment opportunity policy, we also take affirmative action as called for by applicable laws and Executive Orders to ensure that minority group individuals, females, disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, other protected veterans, Armed Forces, and qualified disabled persons are introduced into our workforce and considered for promotional opportunities.
JSA is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities (unless doing so will result in an undue hardship). If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to recruiting @jlab.org or contact Human Resources by calling (757) 269-7100 and selecting option 1 between 8 am – 5 pm EST to provide the nature of your request.
Employment with JSA is conditional upon DOE approval if at any time during your employment you are participating in a Foreign Government Talent Recruitment Program or Affiliated activity. Generally, such programs/activities include any foreign-state-sponsored attempt to acquire U.S.-funded scientific research through programs run or funded by the government that target scientists, engineers, students, academics, researchers, and entrepreneurs of all nationalities working or educated in the United States. This includes positions or appointments, both domestic and foreign, titled academic, professional, or institutional appointments whether or not remuneration is received and whether full-time, part-time or voluntary.
