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 vacation, 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:

Are you looking for an opportunity to impact the security of the nation’s nuclear deterrent? Do you want to join an engaging team driven to support programs across the laboratories? Are you passionate about process improvements and training?

If so, you may be the Information Management Professional we are seeking to join our team. We are looking for a Sigma Verifier Lead to be part of the Use Control Site Coordinator (UCSC) team. The UCSC team is responsible for ensuring the labs compliance with DOE orders and protecting Sigma 14/15 information from inadvertent disclosure. You will have the opportunity to shape the future of the program through process improvements, training, and education. We are seeking highly motivated individuals to both support ongoing responsibilities while developing new tools to streamline the nomination and verification processes.

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

• Interact with SNL, NNSA, and other DOE facilities on matters relating to the Sigma program and compliance
• Maintain and modify documentation related to the Sigma verification process
• Develop lab-wide training material related to Sigma information
• Write informational bulletins related to Sigma process for dissemination through corporate notifications like the Sandia Daily News
• Complete reports for DOE HQ related to Sigma program
• Provide guidance and direction for developers working on lab-wide Sigma applications
• Initiate adjustments to the Sigma applications to ensure alignment with DOE policy
• Execute Sigma verifications across NSE sites
• The successful candidate will be self-directed, innovative, organized, responsive, and possess strong communication and time management skills. Occasional travel will be required.

Salary Range:

$72,800 - $140,600

*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:

• Bachelor's degree in relevant discipline, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
• Proficiency supporting information management systems
• Ability to obtain Sigma caveats within 12 months
• Active DOE Q or DoD TS/SCI security clearance

Qualifications We Desire:

Ability to coordinate cross-functional partnerships with a variety of teams, including classified matter protection and control, information technology, engineering teams, information systems developers, security teams, and communications staff.

Also, for this posting we are seeking individuals with the following experience:

• Demonstrated experience implementing workflows and policies supporting information management
• Strong teaming skills
• Ability to incorporate mission needs into information management solutions
• Ability to establish effective relationships with internal and external contacts
• Ability to work independently and collaborate well in a diverse team
• Strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to juggle competing priorities and deadlines
• Experience with agile based software development
• Experience developing lab-wide process to support government requirements and orders
• Demonstrated performance working within a high security environment including supporting external audits and assessments
• Experience developing training materials for lab-wide implementation
• Demonstrated project management ability and attention to detail

About Our Team:

The primary mission of the Security and Use Control Assessment Department is to provide an independent assessment of nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons systems, key associated sub-systems, and associated infrastructure in terms of security and use control attributes. Assessments performed by this department are intended to assure the surety objectives of preventing or delaying deliberate unauthorized use of nuclear weapons while not precluding timely authorized use are met. Other related considerations include preventing unauthorized access, sabotage, or theft, and assuring recapture/recovery if physical control is lost. The purpose of independent assessments is to formulate objective technical appraisals of products and activities being assessed in a manner that is credibly independent of influence by those responsible for producing those products or activities. Our assessment functions are carried out in a manner that can be critically judged as independent while being technically comprehensive. A secondary mission of the department is to provide Surety Engineering support, in the areas of security and use control, to customers within the Laboratories and the weapons community during the development and production process. We maximize the leverage of our assessment technologies to provide relative estimates of security and use control contributions of architectures, technologies, sub-systems and systems as they evolve from concepts through development and production.

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:

Position requires a Department of Energy (DOE) Q security clearance to start, or equivalent active security clearance with another U.S. government agency (e.g., DOD). Sandia is required by DOE directive 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 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.

Job ID: 695492

Job Family: IN

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.