Laboratory Protection Program Integrator

Posting Title Laboratory Protection Program Integrator . Location CO

• Golden . Position Type Regular . Hours Per Week 40 . Working at

Nlr Nlr

is located at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Golden, Colorado is the nation's primary laboratory for energy systems research and development. Join the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), where world-class scientists, engineers, and experts are accelerating energy innovation through breakthrough research and systems integration. From our mission to our collaborative culture, NLR stands out in the research community for its commitment to an affordable and secure energy future. Spanning foundational science to applied systems engineering and analysis, we focus on solving complex challenges to deliver advanced, secure, reliable, and cost-effective energy solutions. Our work helps strengthen U.S. industries, support job creation, and promote national economic growth. At NLR, you'll find a mission-driven environment supported by state-of-the-art facilities, multidisciplinary research teams, and strong collaborations with industry, academia, and other national laboratories. We offer robust professional development opportunities, and a competitive benefits package designed to support your career and well-being. To set our new team members up for success, this position includes a six‑month probationary period. This is a collaborative time to ensure successful long‑term fit, providing dedicated support and training as you become acquainted with your role and our organization. Job Description NLR’s Laboratory Protection (LP) group provides a secure, safe, and resilient campus for staff and visitors. The Program Planning and Management team within LP is responsible for advancing NLR’s safeguards, security, and emergency management capabilities through a wide range of integrated functions. These include emergency management planning, oversight of physical protection strategies and security operations, security planning, and performance assurance activities. The team also leads the management of Incidents of Security Concern (IOSCs), security risk assessments, and insider threat mitigation. Additional responsibilities encompass continuous program and process improvement, contractor assurance, issues management, and compliance with applicable DOE Orders and federal requirements. This multidisciplinary approach supports NLR’s mission while ensuring the protection of people, property, and information. LP’s Program Planning and Management team is seeking a motivated, experienced senior-level professional with expertise in security and emergency management to integrate requirements, training, field execution, performance assessment, corrective actions, readiness activities, and lessons learned into a consistent, repeatable cycle of continuous improvement. Primary Responsibilities:

• Integrate Laboratory Protection security and emergency management requirements, policies, training, field execution, performance assurance, corrective actions, and lessons learned into a repeatable continuous-improvement cycle.
• Translate technical requirements and leadership expectations into executable plans, measurable outcomes, and practical tools that support consistent field performance.
• Plan, conduct, and evaluate performance tests, drills, exercises, after-action reviews, supervisor assessments, and other assurance activities to identify performance gaps and improvement opportunities.
• Develop corrective actions with clear problem statements, accountable owners, realistic timelines, validation methods, and closure criteria; coach action owners and verify effectiveness.
• Analyze findings, performance results, training outcomes, corrective-action data, and stakeholder feedback to identify root causes, systemic risks, recurring issues, and emerging trends.
• Reduce repeat findings by converting validated lessons learned and performance gaps into targeted training, procedures, job aids, field guides, quick-reference materials, and process improvements.
• Partner with program and training owners to align curricula, refresher training, readiness activities, and performance expectations with validated operational needs and current program direction.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, scorecards, and other performance measures that communicate readiness, corrective-action status, emerging risks, implementation progress, and sustained effectiveness.
• Lead complex, cross-functional improvement initiatives by defining scope and deliverables, assigning responsibilities, establishing timelines and validation criteria, coordinating stakeholders, resolving barriers, and confirming measurable outcomes.
• Serve as a senior problem solver for complex issues spanning Emergency Management, Protective Force, Central Monitoring Station, and other Laboratory Protection mission areas.
• Facilitate collaboration among programs, directorates, leadership, and external partners to resolve readiness and performance gaps and implement integrated solutions.
• Prepare and deliver clear guidance, field tools, reports, presentations, and leadership briefings addressing performance trends, systemic risks, corrective-action effectiveness, improvement outcomes, and recommended priorities.
• Confirm that corrective actions and process improvements are implemented, adopted in daily operations, validated through performance activities, and sustained over time. Qualifications:
• Performance and Quality Assurance: Ability to apply performance-assurance principles, corrective-action practices, after-action review processes, exercise and drill evaluation methods, readiness assessments, and training alignment.
• Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving: Ability to evaluate risks, requirements, data, and alternative solutions; identify root causes; exercise sound judgment; and develop practical, evidence-based solutions to complex operational issues.
• Systems Thinking and Integration: Ability to connect requirements, policies, programs, training, field operations, performance evaluation, and corrective actions into an integrated improvement cycle.
• Complex Information Interpretation: Ability to understand, interpret, and apply complex data, terminology, procedures, laws, regulations, and technical or programmatic requirements.
• Data Analysis and Synthesis: Ability to analyze and synthesize findings, corrective actions, training results, performance measures, and stakeholder feedback to identify trends, recurring issues, systemic risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Coaching and Guidance: Ability to guide action owners, program leads, and managers in defining problems, developing corrective actions, establishing measurable outcomes, validating effectiveness, and sustaining improvements.
• Facilitation and Project Leadership: Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives from problem definition through implementation and validation, including establishing scope, deliverables, responsibilities, timelines, measures, and reporting expectations.
• Stakeholder Engagement and Influence: Ability to build alignment, facilitate productive collaboration, reconcile differing perspectives, and influence outcomes across programs, directorates, leadership, and external partners without direct authority.
• Communication and Field Enablement: Ability to translate complex requirements, findings, risks, and improvement priorities into clear, audience-focused guidance, reports, presentations, job aids, field guides, dashboards, and leadership briefings.
• Change Management: Ability to plan, implement, validate, and sustain operational changes from initial concept through adoption in daily field operations.
• Technology and Reporting Tools: Ability to use Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams, Smartsheet, and data-visualization tools effectively. Ability to learn and use corrective-action, quality-assurance, learning-management, and incident or exerci