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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.

We are seeking a professional construction worker (job title: Facilities Technologist) for our Minor Modifications Team. In this role you will demonstrate skills and experience in performing construction activities involving carpentry, painting, electrical, plumbing, and/or structural. You will use your reasoning abilities, self-determination/drive, and strong customer service skills to perform your duties.

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

• Perform a variety of construction-related functions
• Read engineering drawings, blueprints, standards, and specifications in order to install facility systems and components to specifications and code
• Demolish, install, test, and repair facility structures, systems, and components
• Understand and follow Universal Building Codes during construction
• Use and maintain tools of the trade to perform work
• Use of mathematical skills to measure, mark, cut, and lay out material and erect or assemble systems
• Perform general facility systems or equipment maintenance or repairs as needed
• Collaborate and works as a team with other workers to produce finished construction projects timely and efficiently
• Follow all safety guidelines and use of personal protective equipment
• Support operational capabilities within facilities, including construction safety, permitting, document control, space management, energy monitoring, and information technology applications
• Understand and adhere to all applicable Sandia National Laboratories and industry regulatory and safety guidelines
• Ensure all results, materials, processes, and final products meet quality specifications and are completed according to established requirements

When applying to this requisition, you may be interviewed by one of several Facilities Organizations.

• High school diploma plus five or more years of directly related experience in one or more skilled construction trades, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-Level Security clearance
• Selected applicants will be required to take a Job Placement Assessment before beginning the job to ensure that they can perform the essential physical requirements, with or without accommodations
• Selected applicants must have a valid driver's license when offered employment, and maintain a valid driver’s license during employment

• Ability to read blueprints and engineering drawings when needed
• Ability to understand and implement engineering standards and specifications
• Ability or trained to use the tools of the trade for the skilled position
• Understand work hazards, safety practices, operating configurations, and policies and procedures
• Strong communication skills and ability to interact with all levels of staff and management

The Minor Modifications Team (MMT)handles minor modifications in-house construction including electrical, mechanical, plumbing, and structural as needed.

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*

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.

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.