The U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is seeking a Technical Director for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program. The ARM Program is DOE’s largest contribution to global climate change research sponsoring research and the ARM Climate Research Facility. As a national user facility, ARM operates climate observation sites all over the world, the ARM Aerial Vehicle Program (AVP), and the ARM Data Archive for collaborative national and international research. As the ARM primary point of contact, the Technical Director is responsible for coordinating the technical priorities of the user facility, as communicated by the DOE Program Manager and the ARM Chief Scientist, for implementation by the infrastructure. The Technical Director is also responsible for representing the broad interests of the infrastructure activities (Engineering, Operations, and Archive) to the DOE Program Manager and the ARM Chief Scientist.
The Technical Director is accountable to DOE’s Program Manager for effectively coordinating elements of the infrastructure. The Technical Director maintains the ARM integrated budget. The Technical Director chairs the Infrastructure Management Board (IMB) for budget discussions among the infrastructure (Operations, Engineering, and Archive) managers to develop an integrated budget proposal to the DOE Program Manager. This includes the annual budget proposal as well as budget issues that arise during the year.
The Technical Director serves as the liaison between the ARM infrastructure and the ARM science team. This includes communications with the Chief Scientist and participating in meetings the Science Team Executive Committee and Working Groups deem necessary.
The Technical Director works with DOE Program Manager and the ARM Infrastructure Management Board to ensure that tasks related to the ARM are communicated and tracked. The Technical Director oversees the activities of the ARM Science Liaison, who represents the ARM to the outside (non-ARM familiar) world and coordinates outreach efforts, drawing ARM and other DOE resources as required. The Technical Director is responsible for coordinating the review of ARM field campaign requests and impacts on resources, sites, instruments and/or data.
The ARM Technical Director is a senior line management position in the PNNL Atmospheric Science and Global Change (ASGC) Division reporting directly to the ASGC Division Director. The position location is in Richland, WA.
Minimum Requirements: Masters Degree in science or engineering (PhD preferred) with a combination of technical and program management experience (preferably centered on atmospheric research) and a history of increasing management responsibility.
This position has been filled.