Weapons Business Operations Division Group Leader

Company Description
Join us and make YOUR mark on the World!
Are you interested in joining some of the brightest talent in the world to strengthen the United States’ security? Come join Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) where our employees apply their expertise to create solutions for BIG ideas that make our world a better place.
We are looking for individuals that demonstrate an understanding of working in partnership with team peers, who engage, advocate, and contribute to building an inclusive culture, and provide expertise to solve challenging problems.
Pay Range
$129,030 - $160,188 Annually for the E01.4 Level
Please note that the pay range information is a general guideline only. Many factors are taken into consideration when setting starting pay including education, experience, the external labor market, and internal equity.
Job Description
We have openings for Group Leaders (GL) in the Weapons Business Operations (WBO) Division. You will provide leadership and oversight to your group, consisting of approximately five to 10 group members, who provide administrative, analytical, and/or Business Operations support to the broad array of program and project areas within Strategic Deterrence (SD). You will also interface between the division management team and your group. Successful candidates are required to secure full funding within an SD-funded program or project. These positions are within the Strategic Deterrence Directorate.
In this role, you will

• Provide career development and leadership for an interdisciplinary group of exempt and/or non-exempt staff, participate in determining staffing requirements, and invest in division personnel to develop a well-trained workforce, ensuring the highest quality personnel are recruited and retained.
• Execute division long-term goals as an active participant on the division’s management team.
• Participate in interviewing and hiring new workforce to meet evolving needs in collaboration with the WBO Senior Management Team.
• Actively participate in mentoring, training, reclassification, and employee development within your WBO section.
• Interpret and advise on regulations, laws, and guidelines as they apply to the work of your staff. Evaluate policies, procedures, methods, and practices and develop and implement strategies for addressing process gaps with WBO Senior Management.
• Provide discipline expertise in developing, planning, and executing strategies for implementing work, including processes that cross several functions, significant events, project management, and develop end-to-end process maps.
• Recognize, create, and implement plans to promote and foster a culture of inclusion, diversity, equity, and accountability.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant functional discipline, or equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• Experience as a working supervisor, setting technical and business direction and requirements for others as well as the ability to work independently, acting on own initiative, and work as a member of a project team with engineers and scientists.
• Advanced experience using project management tools and process development tools such as Primavera or MS Project, or other scheduling programs, Visio and expert knowledge using Microsoft Office tools.
• Experience working in a weapons program.

Qualifications We Desire

• Experience applying strong analytical and problem-solving skills to practical business outlooks such as forecasting, benefit analysis, and trending.
• Knowledge of and experience applying personnel policy and procedures and demonstrated ability to apply this knowledge and understanding in a wide array of situations dealing with staff.
• Experience leading innovative initiatives, building cooperative multi-disciplinary teams and interacting, negotiating, and sustaining relationships with management, multidisciplinary teams, other divisions and directorates, external collaborators, and sponsors.
• Experience managing multiple, integrated projects and leading business transformation activities using project management methodologies, practices, techniques, and tools.
• Demonstrated experience implementing plans that promote and value inclusion, diversity, equity, and accountability principles in the workplace.

Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Position Information
This is a Career Indefinite position, open to Lab employees and external candidates.
Why Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory?

• Included in 2024 Best Places to Work by Glassdoor!
• Flexible Benefits Package
• 401(k)
• Relocation Assistance
• Education Reimbursement Program
• Flexible schedules (*depending on project needs)
• Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accountability (IDEA) - visit https://www.llnl.gov/diversity
• Our core beliefs - visit https://www.llnl.gov/diversity/our-values
• Employee engagement - visit https://www.llnl.gov/diversity/employee-engagement

Security Clearance
This position requires a Department of Energy (DOE) Q-level clearance. If you are selected, we will initiate a Federal background investigation to determine if you meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or matter. Also, all L or Q cleared employees are subject to random drug testing. Q-level clearance requires U.S. citizenship.
Pre-Employment Drug Test
External applicant(s) selected for this position must pass a post-offer, pre-employment drug test. This includes testing for use of marijuana as Federal Law applies to us as a Federal Contractor.
Pre-Placement Medical Exam
A job related pre-placement medical examination may be required.
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