R&D Industrial Engineer - Advanced Programs (Early/Mid-Career)
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.
What Your Job Will Be Like
Are you passionate about your work and want to join a dynamic team that solves exciting issues for the nation's security? Advanced Programs is looking for a motivated and self-starting R&D Systems Engineer to act as an Industrial Engineer to join the team of production professionals supporting a variety of production missions for the Nuclear Security enterprise. As an Industrial Engineer, you will provide solutions to bridge the gap between production processes and decision makers by using computational capabilities to devise solutions and answer questions. You will be performing activities such as production operations modeling and improvements using discrete-event simulations, optimization models, facility layouts, data analysis, visualization and more. Experience in Industrial Engineering, production, and/or manufacturing is necessary to be successful in this position.
On any given day, you may be called on to:
- Gather information, perform assessments and studies with production staff, conduct production floor walkthroughs and processes mapping activities, translate production information into model data.
- Develop analytics models to assess, optimize, and make predictions for various production authorities involved in the development and production of Neutron Generators, Power Sources, Energetic Components, and Advanced Programs (focused on urgent rapid product realization efforts).
- Document model results, identify emerging areas of opportunity, lead investigative and exploratory projects, and present findings to peers and senior management.
- Collaborate with multi-functional teams and other specialists on large, center-level projects.
- Lead facility redesign efforts including accurate capture of current state and implementation of methods to determine alternative future states.
- Work on other projects to be determined by the organization's needs and individual interests. These may include supporting strategic projects that seek to adapt or advance Center capabilities to meet new needs across the Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE). These projects may include collaboration with a variety of internal and external NSE partners.
Qualifications We Require
- Bachelor’s and advanced degree (Master’s or PhD) in Systems, Industrial, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics, or relevant subject area or;
- 4 years of demonstrated experience in lieu of an advanced degree
- Ability to obtain and maintain and DOE Q Clearance
Qualifications We Desire
- Experience in one or more of the following:
- Python, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), R, SQL, FlexSim, FlexScript, Arena, Simio, Gurobie, CPLEX
- Discrete event simulation
- Optimization
- Data mining, analysis and visualization
- Lean Six Sigma or other standardized problem-solving methodologies
- Ability to work independently and complete tasks in a timely manner
- Strong oral, written and interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively in diverse team environments
- DOE Q clearance
About Our Team
Advanced Programs (2520), will integrate, adapt, and grow Sandia National Laboratories’ (SNL’s) new product realization capabilities to meet the evolving needs of SNL and the greater Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE). Departments 2521 and 2522 are integrated high functional teams that cooperatively tackle a variety of product realization challenges for the NSE and others.
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 schedules, generous vacations, 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.
Security Clearance
Sandia is required by DOE 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 obtain and 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.