Division Director, Technical Division, Electron-Ion Collider

Division Director Technical Division

The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) is one of the most exciting new scientific facilities to be built in the United States over the next decade. This multi-billion-dollar facility is being built at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The EIC will collide relativistic high energy polarized protons or heavy ions utilizing particle accelerators and the storage ring from the highly successful Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) with relativistic polarized electrons provided by a new state of the art high current polarized electron storage ring with a new electron accelerator complex. The new ePIC detector at the EIC collision point will be a discovery machine providing answers to long-elusive mysteries of matter related to our understanding of the origin of mass structure and binding of atomic nuclei that make up the entire visible universe.

Job Description

The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) Technical Division serves as the Fundamental Interactions and Particles (FIP) Directorates primary engineering technical infrastructure and project delivery organization. The Division is responsible for the engineering design procurement fabrication installation testing commissioning support modernization and lifecycle management of EIC accelerator systems supporting EIC Project execution commissioning and long-term operations. The Division also provides matrixed engineering infrastructure and technical support across the Directorate and supports the maintenance repair and service life extension of Hadron accelerator systems operated by the Accelerator Division.

The Technical Division Director provides strategic leadership and management for the Divisions engineering design and technical organizations through the Division Section Heads and Engineering Group Leaders. Reporting to the Associate Laboratory Director for FIP the Division Director works in close partnership with the EIC Project Director and Project Management Team to ensure successful execution of Division responsibilities and long-term operational readiness.

The Technical Division includes the Beam Instrumentation & Controls Magnet Systems (Normal and Superconducting) Mechanical Systems Power Supply Systems Radio Frequency (RF) Vacuum Systems and Infrastructure Systems groups. The Infrastructure Systems group provides engineering support for Civil/Structural Electrical Power Water and HVAC systems supporting the EIC complex. The Division comprises more than 300 research engineering design and technical staff members.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership & Organizational Development

• Establish the strategic vision organizational structure workforce plans engineering capabilities and management systems required to successfully design construct commission operate maintain and modernize the EIC accelerator complex.
• Serve as a member of the FIP Directorate leadership team and contribute to Directorate priorities resource allocation organizational initiatives and long-term planning.
• Develop and implement long-range engineering infrastructure technology and workforce development strategies aligned with Directorate Laboratory and DOE objectives.
• Establish performance expectations monitor organizational effectiveness and hold Division leadership accountable for achieving technical operational financial and safety objectives.
• Foster a culture of openness collaboration respect innovation and engineering excellence.

Financial & Resource Management

• Develop manage forecast and execute annual operating and project budgets exceeding $200M.
• Align resources staffing and investments with organizational and project objectives.

Technical & Engineering Stewardship

• Provide engineering stewardship and lifecycle management of accelerator systems from conceptual design through construction commissioning operation modernization and replacement.
• Promote innovation technology development and engineering excellence to improve performance reliability maintainability and upgrade capabilities.
• Ensure accelerator systems are delivered documented tested and supported in a manner that enables efficient commissioning operational readiness and transition to long-term operations.

Project Execution & Delivery Oversight

• Provide executive leadership for Division resource planning staffing priorities organizational commitments and execution of engineering deliverables in coordination with the EIC Project Management Team and Directorate leadership.
• Ensure effective collaboration among the Division EIC Project FIP programs and operational organizations to successfully deliver Division scope technical objectives and project commitments.

Compliance Quality & Safety

• Maintain a safe work environment and ensure comprehensive safety reviews procedures and documentation.
• Serve as the Divisions engineering authority by ensuring consistent application of engineering standards configuration management and quality requirements.
• Ensure accelerator systems are designed and operate in accordance with Laboratory DOE and regulatory requirements.

Stakeholder Engagement & Communications

• Represent the Division with Laboratory leadership DOE sponsors advisory and review committees partner institutions vendors collaborating laboratories and other external stakeholders.

• Serve as the Divisions principal interface with project leadership technical organizations and external stakeholders communicating complex technical programmatic and organizational issues through executive-level presentations reports reviews and strategic recommendations.

Required Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Bachelors degree in Engineering Physics or a related technical discipline.
• Twelve (12) or more years of progressively responsible leadership experience in a scientific DOE laboratory national laboratory aerospace defense manufacturing or other large technical enterprise including at least eight (8) years in senior or executive leadership roles.
• Demonstrated success leading large multidisciplinary engineering technical scientific and project organizations and achieving organizational objectives through strategic leadership collaboration sound decision-making and resolution of complex technical and operational challenges.
• Experience developing and implementing organizational strategies workforce plans management systems and organizational structures that support long-term mission success.
• Experience managing large operating and project budgets allocating resources across multiple programs and priorities and balancing organizational technical and project commitments.
• Experience providing management oversight and coordination to the design procurement fabrication installation testing commissioning operation maintenance modernization and lifecycle management of complex technical systems.
• Demonstrated ability to build and lead high-performing organizations through talent development succession planning performance management and organizational accountability.
• Demonstrated ability to engage effectively with senior Laboratory leadership DOE sponsors advisory and review committees partner institutions vendors and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering an open collaborative safe and high-performing workplace culture.
• Excellent verbal written presentation and interpersonal communication skills including the ability to communicate complex technical and organizational issues to diverse audiences and prepare executive-level presentations reports and strategic recommendations.

Preferred Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Advanced degree in Engineering Physics or a related technical discipline.
• Experience leading the engineering design procurement fabrication installation commissioning operation maintenance modernization and lifecycle management of particle accelerator systems or other large complex DOE scientific facilities.
• Familiarity with DOE Order 413.3 Critical Decision (CD) processes project governance earned value management systems configuration management risk management quality assurance and project performance reporting.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary organizations responsible for accelerator systems superconducting magnets RF systems cryogenic systems accelerator controls power supplies vacuum systems beam instrumentation or major technical infrastructure.
• Experience working collaboratively with scientists engineers technical staff and project management organizations to successfully deliver complex technical systems.
• Project management experience PMP certification and/or formal training

Other information:

• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required.
• This is an on-site position.

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