Senior/Principal Facilities Technologist - Construction Services, Onsite

Sandia National Laboratories is the nation's premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:

• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
• Extraordinary co-workers
• Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
• Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
• Generous vacation, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*

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*These benefits vary by job classification.

Are you passionate about facilities? We are seeking a highly motivated Facilities Technologist to join our team as we support construction, maintenance, and contract service activities!

This position includes a wide range of oversight of commercial and industrial construction related activities. This includes assisting the project team during the construction phase of a project by performing inspection activities, quality assurance, and coordination of a variety of activities with the construction supplier. The selected applicant will partner with all disciplines of code inspection and project team personnel to deliver the best possible product.

On any given day, you may be called on to:

• Act as the Sandia representative in carrying out the field administration of construction contracts for the Mechanical discipline to determine contractors compliance with drawings, codes and specifications, life safety, accessibility, quality, and minor safety standards.
• Understand and enforce the requirements in the International Building Codes, Sandia Design Manual, Specifications and Standards.
• Conduct field visits to jobsites to observe and evaluate construction work.
• Complete field reports documenting the progress, quality, and safety of construction work.
• Ensure Requests for Information (RFIs) ASIs, Change Orders and red lines are incorporated by contractors.
• Assists contractors in obtaining permits and ensuring permit requirements are met.
• Coordinate outages with the various disciplines as needed.
• Identifies and resolves construction and minor safety issues and reports concerns to the SDR/construction safety group at Sandia.
• Perform final inspections and provide timely and accurate inspection reports and documents acceptance of work.
• Support operational capabilities within facilities, including construction safety, permitting, document control, space management, energy monitoring, and information technology applications.
• Ensure all results, materials, processes, and final products meet quality specifications and are completed according to established requirements.

Overtime may be required - willingness and ability to be on call, work a flexible schedule.

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite.

$63,800 - $123,400

*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

• High School Diploma plus five (5) or more years of construction experience Mechanical and Plumbing disciplines.
• Experience with one or more of the following:
  • Mechanical and Plumbing building components and activities.
  • Site Infrastructure, building rough in through trim out and final completion, life safety, and ADA/ABA accessibility.
• Ability to obtain a New Mexico Journeyman JPG License and ICC - IBC Commercial Mechanical and Plumbing Inspector certifications within six (6) months of employment.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE L-level security clearance.
  

• Active certifications by the International Code Council (ICC) as a Commercial Mechanical and Plumbing Inspector.
• Knowledge of and experience with practices including resource scheduling and direct interface with clients and subcontractors.
• Knowledgeable of Behavior Based Safety (BBS) procedures and construction practices.
• Completion of an accredited apprenticeship program or a technical vocational degree.
• Completed OSHA 10 and OSHA 30-hour training.
• Experience with High Hazard facilities construction.
• Familiarity with systems supporting Semiconductor Fabrication Facilities and Clean Rooms.
• Technical writing experience.
• Knowledge of computer-aided drafting and design (CADD).
• Active DOE L security clearance, or other active security clearance.

The Facilities Integrated Services department (04925) provides building construction and alteration code compliance oversight and documentation across architecture, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, fire protection, and energy systems. This department also provides inspection, minor safety oversight and work acceptance support for all construction projects performed at Sandia National Laboratories to ensure construction code compliance to include spec and process

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the 'posting date'. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

Sandia is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to obtain and maintain a DOE L-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.

Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by the DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

If you have a Medical Portable Electronic Device (MedPED), such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, drug-releasing pump, hearing aids, or diagnostic equipment and other equipment for measuring, monitoring, and recording body functions such as heartbeat and brain waves, if employed by Sandia National Laboratories you may be required to comply with NNSA security requirements for MedPEDs.

If you have a MedPED and you are selected for an on-site interview at Sandia National Laboratories, there may be additional steps necessary to ensure compliance with NNSA security requirements prior to the interview date.

If offered the position, you may be required to demonstrate your fitness to perform certain physical aspects of the position, including lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling.