Program Manager 4

# 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 4 to provide strategic leadership and oversight within the Client’s organization. The Program Manager is responsible for managing enterprise-wide support services that drive consistency, efficiency, and standardization across all plutonium mission areas. The selected individual will deliver vision, strategic direction, and tactical planning for a diverse portfolio overseeing approximately $400M of scope in FY26.

The Program Manager 4 will apply expert-level program and project management methodologies to develop and maintain scope, schedule, budget, and performance baselines while ensuring effective change control and documentation. This role requires strong cross-organizational coordination skills to align portfolio objectives, facilitate communication among Work Package Managers and line management, and ensure seamless integration across mission areas.

The successful candidate will demonstrate proven expertise in risk management, proactively identifying and mitigating portfolio-level risks while driving performance and accountability through structured review processes. This individual will also be responsible for fostering trusted stakeholder relationships, mentoring junior staff, and supporting the development of comprehensive annual and long-range strategic plans (such as the Five-Year National Strategic Plan).

Key Responsibilities:

- Provide 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.

- Broker 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.

- 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 Client’s entity.

- Programs often are funded by a specific source but may comprise similar activities funded by multiple sources.

Required Qualifications:

- Position requires a bachelor’s degree in a science or engineering related field, from an accredited institution and 12 years related experience; or an equivalent combination of education and technical experience directly related to the occupation. An advanced engineering or science degree with experience related to nuclear materials production and process development is highly desired.

- Expert-level knowledge of program and project management methodologies, including the development of project plans, work breakdown structures (WBS), and work packages; management of scope, schedule, budget, and performance baselines; and documentation of baseline reports and change control activities.

- Proven experience supporting cross-organizational coordination by working with internal Work Package Managers and line management teams to maintain clear communication and ensure portfolio alignment.

- Demonstrated expertise in risk management, including identifying portfolio risks, developing and implementing mitigation strategies, recommending risk acceptance or avoidance, and monitoring/reporting on the progress of mitigation plans in coordination with executing organizations.

- Strong ability to develop and maintain strategic relationships with internal and/or external stakeholders, fostering trust and transparency to support program success.

- Experience facilitating monthly program status reviews, engaging Work Package Managers and line organization leadership to report on progress, surface issues, and drive accountability.

- Experience mentoring junior staff, providing guidance on program planning, performance tracking, and successful execution of program deliverables.

- Ability to apply strategic, cross-disciplinary insight to contribute to the development of a comprehensive, integrated annual plan (e.g., Five-Year National Strategic Plan – FYNSP), ensuring alignment with broader organizational goals.

Desired 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.

- Demonstrated ability to successfully plan, organize, lead, and monitor a variety of team efforts to completion.

- Possesses advanced expertise in developing and executing process improvement initiatives.

- Experience utilizing EVMS principles.

- Active DOE Q clearance.

- Experience working with classified information/rednet account.

Salary and Benefits Information:

Expected Salary Range: $175k - $250k / 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