Institutional Infrastructure Investment Program Manager

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We are seeking an Institutional Infrastructure Investment Program Manager to lead the Site Infrastructure Management institutional investment portfolio. You will provide enterprise-level strategic direction, technical leadership, and independent decision-making for approximately $50M per year and 90 active projects supporting LLNL’s facilities and infrastructure mission. You will integrate cost, schedule, funding, risk, performance, deferred maintenance, and mission-planning information to establish priorities, guide execution, and provide decision support to Laboratory leadership, DOE/NNSA, the Livermore Field Office, and organizational stakeholders. At the higher level, you will serve as the Laboratory’s recognized technical authority and strategic advisor for enterprise investment planning, portfolio governance, infrastructure prioritization, funding strategy, and long-range institutional decision-making.

This position will be filled at either the TSL.4 or TSL.5 level, depending on your qualifications. Additional responsibilities, outlined below, will be assigned if you are selected at the higher level.

You will

• Provide senior-level leadership for institutional portfolio management supporting long-range facilities and infrastructure development and compliance with DOE real property asset management requirements.
• Serve as a senior portfolio owner for assigned institutional investment projects, assessing portfolio health through integrated cost, schedule, funding, risk, performance, deferred maintenance, and strategic-alignment information.
• Develop and recommend portfolio strategies, investment priorities, budget expectations, governance approaches, and execution plans for management approval.
• Advise Laboratory leadership, DOE/NNSA, the Livermore Field Office, and stakeholders on portfolio risks, project performance, funding alternatives, schedule impacts, investment priorities, and recovery strategies.
• Exercise independent judgment to resolve highly complex portfolio issues and implement or recommend actions affecting mission delivery, fiscal-year budget execution, infrastructure condition, and institutional performance.
• Monitor portfolio execution and budget performance; evaluate underperforming projects, identify root causes, and direct or recommend corrective actions, recovery plans, re-baselining, and reprioritization.
• Review and validate project changes, funding requests, and authorization documents to ensure actions are technically supported, adequately documented and funded, and aligned with Laboratory and sponsor objectives.
• Integrate strategic plans, Site Development and Area Plans, mission timelines, deferred-maintenance needs, and project-performance data to inform near- and long-term institutional investment decisions.
• Develop, implement, and maintain portfolio data-quality, reporting, risk-analysis, investment-prioritization, and decision-support procedures for assigned portfolio-management activities.
• Direct the development of timely, accurate, and traceable portfolio reports, analyses, and responses for senior management, DOE/NNSA, and other stakeholders, including urgent and high-consequence requests.
• Lead improvements to portfolio-management processes, systems, governance, workflows, reporting methods, and decision-support products; provide technical direction and mentoring to project and portfolio personnel.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Additional job responsibilities, at the TSL.5 level

• Serve as the Laboratory’s recognized technical authority for institutional investment portfolio management, infrastructure prioritization, portfolio governance, and strategic project-execution decision support.
• Establish enterprise-level portfolio-management strategies, standards, governance practices, analytical methods, and performance expectations affecting multiple organizations and major institutional investments.
• Lead cross-organizational initiatives that improve portfolio governance, project execution, data integrity, reporting, investment decision-making, and alignment with DOE/NNSA requirements.
• Represent LLNL as a senior subject-matter expert in institutional investment portfolio management with DOE/NNSA Headquarters, the Livermore Field Office, external review organizations, and senior Laboratory governance bodies.

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, finance, engineering, project management, construction management, facilities management, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and significant related experience.
• Recognized subject-matter expertise in institutional investment portfolio management, infrastructure prioritization, portfolio governance, and strategic project-execution decision support.
• Significant experience leading complex facilities construction, capital-investment, or project portfolios with significant financial, operational, and mission implications.
• Demonstrated experience providing senior-level technical leadership and advisory support for portfolio strategy, facility investment planning, project execution, infrastructure prioritization, funding, risk, or governance.
• Significant experience independently integrating and analyzing cost, schedule, funding, milestones, risk, performance, deferred-maintenance, and other information within a facility investment portfolio; applying appropriate quantitative, financial, risk, or business-analysis techniques to identify trends, evaluate alternatives, and support decisions.
• Demonstrated success establishing priorities, resolving complex and time-sensitive portfolio issues, and developing and implementing or recommending solutions with significant organizational consequences.
• Demonstrated experience developing, implementing, and maintaining portfolio-management processes, data-quality controls, reporting systems, performance metrics, dashboards, executive reports, and decision-support products.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence multidisciplinary teams and stakeholder organizations without direct authority.
• Expert communication, facilitation, influence, and negotiation skills necessary to build consensus and present clear, defensible technical, financial, and strategic recommendations to senior management, customers, sponsors, government agencies or comparable external stakeholders, and other relevant organizations.

Additional qualifications at the TSL.5 level

• Extensive experience establishing enterprise-level infrastructure investment strategies, standards, governance practices, analytical methods, and performance expectations that affect multiple organizations and significant institutional investments.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-organizational initiatives that improve portfolio governance, project execution, data integrity, reporting, investment decision-making, and alignment with applicable government, sponsor, regulatory, or organizational requirements.
• Extensive experience representing an organization as a senior technical authority with senior executives, government agencies, comparable external stakeholders, external review organizations, and governance bodies.

Pay Range

$200,760 - $305,544Annually

$200,760 - $254,544 Annually for TSL.4

$240,960 - $305,544 Annually for TSL.5

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting; pay will not be below any applicable local minimum wage.  An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Position Information

This is a Career Indefinite position, open to Lab employees and external candidates.

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• Flexible Benefits Package
• 401(k)
• Relocation Assistance
• Education Reimbursement Program
• Flexible schedules (*depending on project needs)
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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. 

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