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Project Director - Critical Utilities Infrastructure Revitalization, SLAC

Job ID

6608

Location

SLAC - Menlo Park, CA

Full-Time

Regular

SLAC Job Postings

Position overview:

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is seeking an experienced and highly qualified Project Director to lead the $209M Critical Utilities Infrastructure Revitalization (CUIR) project, a major infrastructure upgrade supporting the laboratory's long-term scientific mission. The Critical Utilities Infrastructure Revitalization (CUIR) project aims to address capability gaps exacerbated by aging infrastructure. Many of SLAC's utilities were installed in the 1960s as part of the original laboratory construction. The systems are beyond useful life, suffer from parts obsolescence, and were not designed to support the experimental parameters needed for science research today and in the future. The purpose of the CUIR project is to modernize SLAC's multiprogram utility infrastructure to provide reliable and efficient operations. The project addresses degraded infrastructure and critical replacements, and modernization associated with underground water/fire protection, sanitary sewer, and storm drain systems sitewide; adds new electrical feeder cables and equipment to reduce downtime; replaces underrated/obsolete electrical equipment; and installs cooling water infrastructure for operational reliability. CUIR is organized as a portfolio of subprojects with an approved Start of Construction for subproject 1 (Critical Electrical System Improvements) in June 2025.

This position reports to the Deputy Director of Projects and Infrastructure and is accountable to the Laboratory Director and the Department of Energy for the overall project's success, maintaining a respectful and professional work environment, and ensuring that a safe working environment is consistently adhered to, by providing clear safety direction for all project-related activities.

Your specific responsibilities include:

+ Direct the overall planning and execution of the CUIR project in a safe and environmentally sound manner, providing leadership, management, and strategic vision for the project and meeting needs of the laboratory and funding agencies.

+ Manage the entire collection of projects and/or programs undertaken by an organization or division in a manner that ensures their alignment with the university's strategic objectives. Typically, it proposes new initiatives and champions the business and technical planning and conceptual efforts for major projects and initiatives. Provide limited technical contribution as needed to successfully complete projects.

+ Perform the full range of project management cycle: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing. Independently lead and direct projects requiring high levels of functional integration and involving multiple disciplines to be managed.

+ Direct development of an action plan, and estimate requirements for resources, including management, labor, materials, and time required to complete project.

+ Facilitate discussions and negotiations to drive recommendation consensus.

+ Create and help execute comprehensive change management strategy and communication plan relative to project/portfolio scope and stakeholders; orchestrate and lead change management methodologies underlying project success.

+ These elements typically delineate the project management involved at this level: charter origination, scope identification, shaping, and definition; # of disciplines /stakeholders to manage is across-university impact, and city, county and major donor constituents; risk-manage, control, and report on risk associated with numerous projects and programs, affecting an entire School or business entity's project program and risk sharing and control is the project manager's responsibility; project complexity involves some of the most complex, new technology to be utilized and facilitate decisions requiring consideration of wide influences to drive a decision; primary university relationship is at the deans, donors and executive committee level; single project budget/scope accountability- over $10M; cumulative budget/scope accountability over $10M.

To be successful in this position you will bring:

+ Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, project management or a related technical discipline and ten years of relevant experience; or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

+ Demonstrated experience directing large, complex capital infrastructure projects (typically >$100M) within a DOE, federal, or comparable regulated environment.

+ Thorough knowledge of DOE Order 413.3B, including Critical Decision (CD) milestones, project governance, baseline development and control, risk management, and reporting requirements.

+ Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams, including engineering, construction, safety, procurement, and external stakeholders.

+ Strong understanding of project controls, including cost, schedule, risk, configuration management, and change control processes.

+ Demonstrated commitment to Integrated Safety Management (ISM) and environmental, safety, and health (ES&H) requirements, with experience implementing safety leadership on active construction sites.

+ Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to brief senior laboratory management, DOE leadership, and external oversight bodies.

+ Ability to manage competing priorities in a complex, mission-driven research environment while maintaining schedule, cost, and safety performance.

In addition, preferred requirements include:

+ Master's degree in engineering, project management, business, or a related field.

+ Project Management Professional (PMP) or similar professional certification.

+ Experience managing utility infrastructure systems such as electrical distribution, water, fire protection, sanitary sewer, storm drain, or cooling water systems.

+ Familiarity with DOE project reviews, including Independent Project Reviews (IPRs), and Critical Decision (CD) readiness reviews.

+ Experience working at a national laboratory or large research campus with active scientific operations.

Certificates and Licenses:

+ Must have valid driver's license. This position will require driving a personal or laboratory vehicle to/from and safely on a construction work site.

+ Project Management (PMI), Project Management Professional (PMP) preferred.

+ Professional Engineer (PE) license, or Registered Architect (RA) preferred.

SLAC employee competencies:

+ Effective Decisions: Uses job knowledge and solid judgment to make quality decisions in a timely manner.

+ Self-Development: Pursues a variety of venues and opportunities to continue learning and developing.

+ Dependability: Can be counted on to deliver results with a sense of personal responsibility for expected outcomes.

+ Initiative: Pursues work and interactions proactively with optimism, positive energy, and motivation to move things forward.

+ Adaptability: Flexes as needed when change occurs, maintains an open outlook while adjusting and accommodating changes.

+ Communication: Ensures effective information flow to various audiences and creates and delivers clear, appropriate written, spoken, presented messages

+ Relationships: Builds relationships to foster trust, collaboration, and a positive climate to achieve.

Physical requirements and Working conditions:

+ Consistent with its obligations under the law, the University will provide reasonable accommodation to any employee with a disability who requires accommodation to perform the essential functions of his or her job.

+ Given the nature of this position, SLAC requires on-site work

Work standards:

+ Interpersonal Skills: Demonstrates the ability to work well with Stanford colleagues and clients and with external organizations.

+ Promote Culture of Safety: Demonstrates commitment to personal responsibility and value for environment, safety and security; communicates related concerns; uses and promotes safe behaviors based on training and lessons learned. Meets the applicable roles and responsibilities as described in the ESH Manual, Chapter 1 General Policy and Responsibilities: http://www-group.slac.stanford.edu/esh/eshmanual/pdfs/ESHch01.pdf

+ Subject to and expected to comply with all applicable University policies and procedures, including but not limited to the personnel policies and other policies found in the University's Administrative Guide, http://adminguide.stanford.edu

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+ **Classification Title: Project Management Manager 3 - Facilities/Construction**

+ **Grade: M Job code: 4403**

+ **Employment Duration: Regular Continuing**

_The expected pay range for this position is $199,580 - $245,563 per annum. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Stanford University provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the university reasonably expects to pay for a position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographic location and external market pay for comparable jobs._

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer and supports diversity in the workplace. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital or family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or genetic information. All staff at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory must be able to demonstrate the legal right to work in the United States. SLAC is an E-Verify employer.