Program Manager 3

# Job Description

Location: Los Alamos, NM (Onsite Work)

Employment Type: Full-Time Clearance Requirement: Active DOE Q Clearance (or Ability to Obtain) Position Overview:

TradeWind Services is seeking a Program Manager 3 to provide strategic leadership and oversight within the Client’s organization. This role is responsible for managing crosscutting support services that enable consistent, efficient, and standardized operations across all plutonium mission areas. The selected individual will play a key role in shaping and executing the vision, strategic direction, and tactical planning for a portfolio overseeing approximately $400 million in scope for FY26.

The Program Manager 3 will collaborate closely with executive-level internal and external customers to define program objectives, establish performance baselines, and ensure successful execution within budget and schedule parameters. The position requires a strong background in program management, technical operations within high-hazard nuclear facilities, and strategic planning to support mission-critical activities.

The ideal candidate will bring demonstrated expertise in managing complex portfolios, developing and implementing long-term operational strategies, and leading cross-functional teams in a high-consequence environment. Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills are essential, as the role requires clear and effective interaction with diverse technical and management audiences to ensure alignment, transparency, and mission success.

Key Responsibilities:

- The program manager provides leadership and overall management of an assigned technical or operational portfolio, which may be large or small in total budget and may encompass one or more discrete programs.

- The program manager brokers with customers and individual researchers or research groups/programs to determine what work will be done to meet the customers needs, general timeframes, and funding requirements.

- The program manager is expected to develop working relationships that span existing internal and/or external institutional missions and extend into new opportunities as policies, missions, and opportunities evolve. Programs are a complex set of related activities needed to produce products or services over time to meet customer requirements within a given mission area. Programs are often ongoing over multiple years and evolve in response to the customers changing needs. The customer may be an external body, such as a federal agency, or may be an internal organization within the Clients' entity.

- Position requires advanced knowledge of and successfully demonstrated experience in all aspects of program management of technical or operational work, including defining program work scope, schedules, budgets, priorities, and performance milestones; developing cost, scope, and schedule baselines; reporting cost and schedule variance; and managing change control and risk.

Required Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of related management experience. or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

- Advanced knowledge of the technical or operational discipline of the assigned portfolio(s).

- Advanced knowledge of regulatory and Laboratory requirements related to programmatic work of assigned portfolio(s).

- Successfully demonstrated experience in developing and nurturing effective internal and/or external customer relationships.

- Successfully demonstrated experience in interacting effectively with all levels of internal and/or external personnel; building trust, gaining consensus, and resolving conflicts.

- Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Previous experience in supporting work in a production agency.

- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.

- Advanced technical degree.

- Willingness to take initiative on new tasks or projects.

- Experience utilizing EVMS principles.

- Active DOE Q clearance.

- Experience working with classified information/rednet account.

Salary and Benefits Information:

Expected Salary Range: $138k - $215k / year (depending on experience)

TradeWind Services offers a selection of exceptional benefits to employees and their families. We can customize your benefits to fit your specific needs. Benefits include:

- Medical/Dental/Vision plans

- Long- and Short-term Disability Insurance

- Life Insurance

- Paid Time Off (PTO)

- 401K

# Details

Location

Los Alamos NM

Workstation

Onsite

Employee Type

Full-Time Regular