Typically requires a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in engineering, science, physics, or a related technical field, as well as 15 or more years of progressively complex program-administration or technical-management experience, including at least 9 years managing significant programs or projects. Equivalent experience may be substituted in lieu of education. The successful candidate must: • Demonstrate substantial senior technical leadership experience with direct responsibility for the operation, maintenance, troubleshooting, engineering integration, and upgrade of complex physical systems, preferably within a scientific research facility, experimental test facility, accelerator, nuclear facility, or similarly sophisticated technical environment. • Demonstrate detailed and extensive knowledge of program-management principles, concepts, practices, and tools. • Demonstrate comprehensive leadership skills, including organizing, planning, scheduling, budgeting, and coordinating workloads to meet established deadlines and milestones. • Have substantial experience managing complex scientific, engineering, technical, or facility programs and leading large multidisciplinary teams. • Have experience developing program plans, operating budgets, work statements, schedules, performance measures, and technical deliverables. • Possess a strong technical background in fusion devices, plasma physics, scientific research facilities, engineering systems, or related technologies. • Demonstrate the ability to develop solutions to complex problems requiring ingenuity, creativity, and sound judgment. • Demonstrate the ability to assimilate complex information, evaluate alternatives, make timely decisions, and implement effective action plans. • Possess strong communication, leadership, presentation, negotiation, and interpersonal skills sufficient to interface effectively with departments, all levels of management, professional and support staff, customers, research collaborators, government representatives, and external institutions. • Demonstrate the ability to build effective working relationships and trust, motivate personnel, and promote a collaborative and constructive management environment. • Demonstrate experience managing safety, facility protection, regulatory compliance, and operational risk in a complex technical or research environment. • Be able to lead activities involving multiple simultaneous projects, technical disciplines, stakeholders, and organizational priorities.