Job Description

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:

Do you enjoy working in a dynamic environment on programs of critical national security importance? The Measurement & Science Engineering Department in the Validation and Qualification Sciences Experimental Group is seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Engineering and Operations (E&O) General Technologist to join our team. In this role, you will play a crucial part in assessing and optimizing our operational processes and workflows, enhancing efficiency, and supporting our technical initiatives. Your contribution to departmental efforts will include ensuring compliance with applicable safety and security standards and through operations, help technical staff realize their ideas and accomplish their project goals.

On any given day, you may be called on to:

• Work at the direction of the team’s E&O Test Operations Engineer on a specific task basis to support technical activities and continuous growth in our operations.
• Prepare or support the creation and completion of documentation for test operations to include work planning and controls and other project execution documents.
• Support data management for classified and unclassified test data.
• Support field testing through mock-ups of test setups in a lab and closeout maintenance procedures.
• Review and help prepare safety basis documentation.
• Lead cyber security documentation and manage standalone classified plans.
• Support weekly schedule reviews and identification of resource pinch-points.
• Implement organizational ideas to continually help streamline and improve our lab spaces and operations.
• Maintain test critical infrastructure, consumables, facilities, and assets.
• Standardize and oversee Project management WP&C documentation and progress through closeout.
• Work in an outdoor field environment supporting hazardous test operations.
• Travel occasionally to support test operations, up to 25% of the time.

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite.Join our team and achieve your goals while making a difference!

Salary Range:

$52,600 - $99,400

*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:

• High school graduate or equivalent
• Experience with one or more of the following: electronics, networking equipment, audio/visual equipment, or database management
• Able to acquire and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance

Qualifications We Desire:

• Ability to work independently with minimal guidance as well as collaboratively as part of a team and the ability to do so efficiently
• Experience with Microsoft Office or similar programs
• Ability to collaborate with customers and staff to ensure high quality deliverables
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience with file management and databases
• Demonstrated organizational skills with strong attention to detail
• Experience with set-up and execution of optical diagnostics various sized experiments
• Experience with video editing and creation of test summary videos and other high impact deliverables
• Experience with management of equipment maintenance and resolution of identified issues

About Our Team:

The Validation and Qualification Sciences Group is responsible for large-scale experimental The Measurement Science & Engineering department (1535) AKA “The Photometrics Team” is a multi-disciplinary group that provides cutting edge imaging measurements for large and small-scale test work supporting Sandia’s National Security Mission. Our work includes R&D developing innovative quantitative imaging measurements that work in harsh conditions, field deployment of measurement systems, data collection, and data analysis. We collaborate with many national laboratories and facilities, providing our customers with critical data and information for model validation, hardware qualification, and engineering development.

Learn more about the large-scale tests we support: https://www.sandia.gov/vqsec/overview/

You will be directly supporting the Photometrics Team, learn more about what we do at: https://www.sandia.gov/vqsec/capabilities/photometrics/

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.

Essential Functions:

If offered the position, you may be required to demonstrate your fitness to perform certain physical aspects of the position, including lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling.

Job ID: 694384

Job Family: EN

Regular/Temporary Position: R

Full/Part-Time Status: F

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.