Manufacturing Manager 3 (First Line Manager)

What You Will Do Join the best and brightest minds in the world at one of the most innovative and creative multidisciplinary research institutions engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security. The work we do at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) matters to our country and the world. The Material Recovery and Recycle (PSD-4) group is seeking a highly motivated First Line Manager to support important national security missions at LANL. PSD-4 processes plutonium, uranium, and other actinide materials to meet national program requirements, while expanding the scientific and engineering basis of nuclear weapons-based manufacturing and producing the next generation of nuclear engineers and scientists. Reporting to your Group Leader, you will provide management and leadership to a team composed of engineers, scientists, and technicians. As the First Line Manager, you will have responsibility, authority and accountability to execute work that supports programmatic milestones and deliverables while setting the standards for excellence and operational effectiveness. Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following: Planning, organizing, and defining strategic objectives. Establishing scope, schedule, and budget through work package development, resource and performance management and ensuring worker qualification and authorization. Delivering quality products and/or services; enforcing adherence to quality standards; achieving balance between the need to meet both productivity goals and quality standards. Ensuring administrative and operating procedures are current, understood, and adhered to before releasing work. Working with facility operations staff to execute work safely, securely, with quality, and in compliance with nuclear facility requirements. Ensuring direct daily oversight of work, workers and the work environment. Serving as the safety responsible line manager over people, equipment, and processes. Ongoing communications with line management reporting on work status, deliverables and commitments. Directing and overseeing work performed by employees including "on the floor" supervision. Mentoring and motivating peers. Providing financial stewardship over budget, procurement, time and labor, travel, and property. #Shiftwork What You Need Minimum Job Requirements: Management: Experience in managing people and/or projects, including planning, organizing, and resource management, as well as demonstrated experience creating work scope, schedules, budgets, coordinating work activities, and tracking progress. Financial Stewardship: Demonstrated experience with financial stewardship. Demonstrated experience in identification of resource requirements and development of schedules. Leadership: Demonstrated experience in the ability to effectively supervise, negotiate, conduct conflict resolution, mentor, and conduct personnel development. Communication: Demonstrated effective written and oral communication skills as evidenced by internal and/or external interactions, seminars, briefings, presentations, and publications; effective interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to interact with all levels of personnel and customers. Demonstrated communication of technical issues and solutions to employees, peers and upper management. Safety/Compliance: Demonstrated experience performing work in a manufacturing environment and executing work in compliance with safety and facility requirements while maintaining a rigorous formality of operations. Education/Experience: Position requires a bachelor's degree in a related field from an accredited institution and 5 years of related experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience directly related to the occupation. DOE Order 426.2A: Requires a Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related science or technology, and 5 years of nuclear experience. Job-related education or experience may be substituted on a case-by-case basis. The degree may be …

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