Job Description

Posting Duration:

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.

NNSA Requirements for MedPEDs:

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.

Salary Range:

$175,100 - $297,800

*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.

What Your Job Will Be Like:

We are seeking a Senior Managing Counsel to lead Sandia’s Regulatory and Contract Law center. Your team, which includes counsel and senior counsel, advises NTESS, LLC on the full range of corporate legal issues affecting a Federally-Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) that manages and operates a national laboratory in the National Nuclear Security Administration system. Your center’s focus includes regulatory compliance in areas of contracts, corporate law, environmental, safety and health, information security, privacy law, and other corporate compliance. This role involves providing strategic advice to senior management and project teams while also ensuring compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and contractual obligations. The Senior Managing Counsel plays a critical role in enabling mission success, managing legal risks, negotiating contracts, and ensuring the organization\'s operations align with legal and regulatory requirements.

Your position, as the Senior Managing Counsel of the Regulatory and Contract Law center, is a key role in an organization that is critical to national security; you will be called upon to:

• Manage a vibrant, experienced team of attorneys.
• Advise on contract matters, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts, agreements, and other legal documents to protect the organization\'s interests.
• Advise, and supervise others providing advice, on privacy and security issues, and such other matters and tasks as assigned by the Chief Legal Officer.
• Conduct legal research and analysis to support decision-making and provide guidance on complex legal issues related to regulatory and contract law.
• Advise or manage attorneys providing advice, on supply chain/procurement, prime contract, corporate law, financial, environmental safety and health (ES&H), information security, privacy law, FOIA, FCPA, export control, and other administrative, compliance and regulatory laws.
• Ensure client needs and interests are addressed through the creation of trust-based relationships, both within NTESS, LLC and the broader U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) / National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) community.
• Counsel and assist employees and management on government legislation, DOE/NNSA contract compliance, and Sandia National Laboratories\' policies and procedures to ensure compliance.
• Provide legal advice to all levels of management and employees responsible for discrete corporate functions. Give legal advice with respect to administration, issue resolution, forms, policies, and contracts.
• Advise in various areas of international, federal, state, and local law and regulations.
• Interact with the broader DOE/NNSA community to represent and advocate for NTESS, LLC’s interests in service of Sandia’s overall mission.
• Stay updated on changes in laws, regulations, and industry standards to ensure ongoing compliance and provide proactive legal advice.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of attorneys and legal professionals.
• Operate as a mission-focused, collaborative team member with other high-functioning professionals, demonstrating strategic thinking and emotional intelligence in providing thoughtful and actionable advice and counsel in a variety of situations, to people at all levels in Sandia.

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

Qualifications We Require:

• Law degree from an ABA accredited law school and active bar membership.
• Twelve or more years of experience practicing law as a licensed attorney at in-house legal department(s), government and/or law firm(s) in regulatory and contract law, general corporate matters, including corporate organization, drafting transactional documents, risk management.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks and changing priorities, mediate conflict, and apply leadership concepts and techniques.
• Knowledge of the rules governing the practice of law, the ability to recognize and resolve ethical issues, and strict adherence to ethics and confidentiality rules.
• Demonstrated ability to interact effectively with all levels of internal and external customers, including the ability to build and manage effective working relationships.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to act as a trusted advisor to enabling clients, constituents, and colleagues to engage in appropriately risk-informed decisions.
• Knowledge of the tools of and sources for legal research and the ability to devise and implement coherent and effective legal research.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE-Q-level security along with an SCI clearance, which might require a polygraph test.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver results, effectively manage people, and guide multidisciplinary teams.

Qualifications We Desire:

• Five or more years of managerial experience, including leading and directing attorneys and legal staff.
• Knowledge of other legal areas to include labor & employment law, corporate law, and administrative law matters/litigation management.
• Knowledge of Sandia National Laboratories legal department including Sandia’s operations and mission areas or other national laboratories.
• Integrative thinker with proven ability to tackle complex, multi-faceted problems with due consideration for business and strategic consequences.
• Previous involvement in and proven ability to continually improve an organizations commitment to diversity and inclusion.
• Team player that seeks out to enable clients and colleague’s success.
• Ability to engage in quantitative risk analysis and communicate advice in a manner that is maximally useful to clients.
• Ability to organize, prioritize, and follow through to completion on multiple tasks.
• Ability to foster a culture of inclusion and take an active leadership role in modeling and growing values in diversity, equality, and inclusion.
• High emotional intelligence and personal initiative, focused on serving Sandia’s mission to serve the nation.

About Our Team:

Division 11000 delivers legal, prime contract and export control advice, guidance, and solutions to enable mission success at Sandia National Laboratories.

About Sandia:

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 vacations, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*

World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://www.sandia.gov*These benefits vary by job classification.

Security Clearance:

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 Q-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 DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

EEO:

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.

Job ID: 693911

Job Family: LE

Regular/Temporary Position: R

Full/Part-Time Status: F

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.