Senior Project Management Engineer – Bioscience

We have an opening for a Senior Project Management Engineer to lead and support the execution of milestone-driven high-risk high-reward national security projects in fast-paced multidisciplinary environments. This position sits at the intersection of project management rigor and technical fluency. The ideal candidate brings sufficient technical depth to engage credibly with sponsors and technical leads representing the projects needs and status independently while knowing when to escalate to project leadership. You will work alongside Principal Investigators and technical experts to deliver results on aggressive timelines by driving technical solutions cost schedule and risk management reporting and stakeholder management across highly complex scientific and engineering landscapes. The position emphasizes initiative autonomy and ownership in both planning and execution serving as the connection between internal teams external collaborators and project sponsors. This position will be in the Materials Engineering Division (MED) within the Engineering Directorate.

This position offers a hybrid schedule blending in-person and virtual presence. You will have the flexibility to work from home one or more days per week. 

You will

• Lead project planning and direct technical tasks for highly complex high-impact scientific and engineering efforts while using independent judgment to accomplish project objectives.
• Develop maintain and prioritize tasking across integrated technical project plans schedules milestones and cross-project dependencies as part of a multi-institute team.
• Implement project controls to support cost schedule quality and risk objectives and solve highly complex risks and issues utilizing in-depth multi-factor analysis.
• Facilitate effective communication coordination and alignment among internal teams external collaborators and Federal sponsors and synthesize and communicate technical information for reports proposals briefings and milestone updates.
• Advise project leaders technical teams and senior managers on scope organization budgeting scheduling quality risk and deliverables.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams to ensure integrated execution across experimental computational engineering and business functions and promote safe compliant and efficient project execution through application of technical and operational knowledge.
• Contribute to the advancement of project management tools and utilize these tools and reporting methods to track tasks communicate status and support decision-making.
• Drive process improvement efforts to strengthen project execution operational efficiency and stakeholder coordination.
• Support procurement fabrication integration contract coordination and collaboration agreements as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications :

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Energy Q-level security clearance equivalent to a DoD Top Secret clearance which requires U.S. citizenship.
•  Bachelors degree in engineering science project management or a related field or the equivalent combination of education and related experience
• Experience working in a biological laboratory or experimental R&D environment.
• Experience managing large complex technical projects with the ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated ability to represent project status risks and needs directly to sponsors or senior stakeholders with judgment to resolve issues independently or escalate appropriately to technical leads.
• Expert level application of project management tools such as Microsoft Project.
• Expert level knowledge of project management methodologies and experience implementing project management tools and practices.
• Strong Expert verbal and written communication facilitation and collaboration skills to effectively document analyses prepare present and explain technical information and advise senior management external sponsors regulators reviewers and stakeholders.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative multidisciplinary team environment with initiative creativity and strong interpersonal skills.
• Experience managing and mentoring less experienced project managers.

Qualifications We Desire

• Masters or PhD in bioscience bioengineering or related field.
• Experience working with the U.S. Department of War (DoW) on highly complex milestone-driven research and engineering programs.
• Experience leading DoW biological and chemical defense programs focused on pharmaceuticals and/or medical countermeasure development.
• Familiarity with DoW project and contract reporting requirements.
• Experience implementing a software system process efficiency or wide-reaching procedure.
• Current security clearance with the DOE DoW or another government agency.

Pay Range

$185850 - $235692 Annually 

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting.  An employees position within the salary range will be based on several factors including but not limited to specific competencies relevant education qualifications certifications experience skills seniority geographic location performance and business or organizational needs.

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Position Information

This is a Career Indefinite position open to Lab employees and external candidates.

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