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 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.

What Your Job Will Be Like:

Are you passionate about your work and dream of utilizing state-of-the-art facilities to explore solutions? Join our diverse team that solves significant issues and challenges for our nation's security!

We are seeking an Electromechanical Technologist to integrate into highly dynamic teams in a high consequence environment. In this fast-paced team environment, you will effectively communicate, think on your feet, improvise, and work safely towards solutions while taking on complex problems, demanding timelines, and physical constraints of the test setups.

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

• Set up instrumentation and data acquisition systems to capture data on high-consequence energetic events.
• Photograph experiments with digital and/or high-speed video cameras.
• Setup and operate x-ray equipment and process x-ray images.
• Make various types of custom length diagnostic cabling.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot instrumentation issues during tests with demanding timelines.
• Operate heavy equipment to move concrete blocks, steel walls, or large test fixtures.
• Fabricate and weld test fixtures and stands.
• Handle energetic materials, including transportation and inventory.
• Build explosive assemblies.
• Operate electric low and high voltage, and nonelectric firing systems.
• Complete explosive operations.
• Maintain and repair the laboratory, equipment, and instrumentation.
• Assist with work planning and controls documentation.
• Perform work mostly outdoors in partnership with multiple an explosives test site at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico and occasionally at other DOE locations in Nevada.
• Participate in formal classroom training, organization specific on-the-job training (OJT), hands-on practical training, and knowledge/skill demonstrations.

Travel occasionally, up to 10% of the time.

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite.

Salary Range:

$70,200 - $135,400

*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:

• High school diploma plus three (3) or more years of relevant experience.
• Minimum of one year of experience in a relevant high-consequence environment.
• Experience with Sandia corporate (or equivalent) safety principles.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance.

Qualifications We Desire:

• Associates degree or certificate (or higher) in an electronics-centered or related STEM field, or equivalent military or civilian experience.
• Experience with the following:
• One or more data acquisition techniques, including strain and pressure gauging, high speed video imaging, photonic doppler velocimetry, flash radiography, oscilloscope and delay generator operation.
• Machining, welding, or fabrication.
• Skid Steer, telehandler, and/or forklift operation.
• Familiarity with photography, image processing, and data reduction.
• Energetic materials and arming and firing systems.
• Interior and terminal ballistics.
• Remote field testing and eager to work frequently outdoors.
• Willingness to adapt to evolving department needs by acquiring new knowledge and skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively.
• Active DOE Q clearance or equivalent.

About Our Team:

Group 6640 provides innovative training and explosive testing to counter strategic threats. We solve some of the nation’s top energetic challenges with focused research, design and performance validation, ground breaking predictive modeling, material characterization, effects analysis, high-consequence assessment, and specialized field training. We operate four test facilities located at Kirtland AFB comprising 913+ acres. We also maintain an environmentally controlled detonation facility and an indoor ballistics test facility. Our team employs elite diagnostics, radiography and high-speed videography techniques and equipment to acquire critical test data. Additionally, we have multiple configurable training venues and training devices to provide related training.

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:

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.

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.

Position Information:

This Limited Term Employee (LTE) position is a temporary position for one year term, which may be renewed at Sandia's discretion up to a maximum of seven years.

Individuals in LTE positions may bid on regular Sandia positions as internal candidates, and in some cases may be converted to regular career positions during their term if warranted by ongoing operational needs, continuing availability of funds, and satisfactory job performance.

Essential Functions:

If offered the position, you may be required to demonstrate your fitness to perform certain physical aspects of the position, including lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling.

Job ID: 693621

Job Family: RD

Regular/Temporary Position: T

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.