Deputy Program Manager jobs in Farmington, NM

GEM Technologies, Inc. (GEM) is seeking a Program Manager to join our team. This position is full-time and will support N3B in Los Alamos, NM.

• Bachelor’s Degree and 14 years of relevant experience.
• Detailed knowledge and understanding of facility design, engineering, project management, waste management, and nuclear safety requirements.
• Expert knowledge and ability to develop and apply highly advanced principles, concepts and techniques in project management involving environmental services, hazardous waste management services, remediation services, and/or decontamination services.
• Skill and ability to perform critical strategic tasks and to interpret broad strategic requirements and develop and execute plans to satisfy them.
• Ability to have major impact on organizational success and productivity, with extensive latitude for independent judgment.
• Ability to communicate effectively at the highest levels.
• Ability to lead substantial proposal initiatives.
• Ability to develop and lead large sized projects, including defining scope, objectives and methods.
• Ability to train and mentor more junior staff.

• Reviews operational performance from a regulatory/safety standpoint and formally reports issues and/or recommendations.
• Provides feedback to projects on corrective actions to ensure operational risk is minimized.
• Presents project management related solutions to problems regarding operations, engineering, nuclear and industrial safety, and regulatory issues.
• Advises management of the status of work in progress, material availability, inventory levels, and potential production or material supply disruptions to ensure that personnel, equipment, materials, and services are provided on-time and at an optimal cost.
• Coordinates interdepartmental activity with quality assurance, purchasing, engineering, inventory control, maintenance and work control, etc.
• Can be viewed as an expert within a specialty and as highly competent within the broad discipline, both internally and externally.
• Level of language skills, mathematical skills, communication skills, reasoning ability and computer skills necessary to perform essential functions of the job.

• To be considered, you must be able to obtain and maintain a government issued clearance, if needed.
• Due to the federal nature of the work, a U.S. Citizenship is required.

N3B manages the Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract for the U.S. Department of Energy Environmental Management’s Los Alamos Field Office, which is responsible for cleaning up contamination that resulted from LANL operations before 1999 and packaging and shipping radioactive and hazardous waste off-site for permanent disposal (n3b-la.com).