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Remote Transition Manager jobs are open across the U.S. at remote-first firms and distributed teams in sectors like technology, healthcare, consulting, and financial services. Employers hiring remotely right now include Alliant Insurance Services, Optum, and Eide Bailly. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Company Description
Join us and make YOUR mark on the World!
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has turned bold ideas into world-changing impact advancing science and technology to strengthen U.S. security and promote global stability.
Our mission spans four critical national security areas nuclear deterrence, threat preparedness, energy security, and multi-domain defense empowering teams to take on the toughest challenges of today and tomorrow. With a culture built on innovation and operational excellence, LLNL is a place where your expertise can make a real impact.
Job Description
Site Infrastructure Management is seeking a Project Portfolio Manager to lead and manage a ~$100M portfolio of complex decontamination, decommissioning, demolition, and disposition projects within the Transition and Disposition (T&D) portfolio. This position is in the Site Infrastructure Management (SIM). You will report directly to the Project Management Division Lead.
The successful candidate will provide technical and operational leadership for a portfolio of demolition and disposition (D&D) projects involving the removal of legacy facilities. This position directly manages assigned complex and strategically significant projects while leading, coaching, coordinating, and integrating the broader portfolio team.
Site Infrastructure Management (SIM) provides integrated capabilities in strategic site vision and planning, project delivery from concept through execution, removal of legacy facilities, and maintaining and operating facilities. By aligning institutional infrastructure demands for mission support with project development and day-to-day operations, SIM ensures that LLNL’s sites and buildings are reliable, resilient, and maintained to be ready to meet the evolving national security mission.
This position may offer a hybrid schedule, which includes the flexibility to work from home one or more days per week, after a probationary period. The specifics of the hybrid schedule, including the exact number of days required in the office and virtual work options may vary based on the needs of the team and the organization.
You will
- Lead a portfolio of concurrent projects, integrating scope, schedule, budget, risks, resources, and performance.
- Directly manage assigned complex, high-priority, or strategically significant projects within the portfolio, with accountability for scope, cost, schedule, risk, technical performance, and closeout.
- Establish portfolio priorities, execution strategies, and long-range plans.
- Provide leadership, direction, coaching, and technical oversight to project managers, construction managers, coordinators, and matrixed project teams.
- Coordinate with customers, facility stakeholders, technical organizations, management, regulators, and other partners to define requirements and resolve project issues.
- Ensure projects comply with applicable safety, environmental, quality, security, regulatory, and project-management requirements.
- Monitor portfolio performance; identify risks, issues, opportunities, and dependencies; and develop mitigation and recovery actions.
- Oversee scope definition, cost estimating, schedule development, resource planning, acquisition strategy, and change control.
- Prepare and communicate portfolio status, forecasts, risks, opportunities, and recommendations to management and customers.
- Foster a collaborative, accountable, and customer-focused culture that promotes continuous improvement in project delivery.
- Support the development and implementation of common portfolio-management processes, tools, metrics, and best practices across the Site Infrastructure Management.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Ability to secure and maintain a U.S. DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management, business, or a related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- Extensive experience leading complex technical, operational, facilities, infrastructure, construction, or capital-asset projects.
- Demonstrated experience leading or managing projects involving facility transition, deactivation, decommissioning, demolition, waste disposition, environmental management, or site reuse in a regulated environment.
- Demonstrated experience independently managing complex projects from initiation through closeout, including scope definition, cost and schedule baselines, risk management, stakeholder coordination, change control, and performance reporting.
- Demonstrated experience managing a portfolio or multiple concurrent projects, including scope, cost, schedule, risk, resources, and stakeholder expectations.
- Advanced knowledge of project-management principles, project controls, cost estimating, scheduling, risk management, and performance reporting.
- Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary and matrixed teams and influence outcomes across organizational boundaries.
- Advanced written, verbal, facilitation, negotiation, and presentation skills.
- Demonstrated ability to advise management and customers on significant project, operational, technical, and resource decisions.
Qualifications We Desire
- Post graduate education in engineering, engineering management, project management, business, or a related technical field.
- Project Management Professional (PMP), Program Management Professional (PgMP), or comparable certification.
- Experience in DOE/NNSA, federal, laboratory, or similarly regulated environments.
- Experience with earned value management, Primavera P6, integrated cost and schedule management, or project-reporting systems.
- Experience leading through project managers, team leads, or matrixed organizations.
- Experience with facility, utility, construction, maintenance, or infrastructure projects.
- Experience with radiological or hazardous waste management, environmental permitting and compliance, and DOE or comparable regulatory requirements.
Pay Range
$200,760 - $254,544 Annually
This is the lowest to highest salary range in good faith we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.
Additional Information
#LI-Hybrid
Position Information
This is a Career Indefinite position, open to Lab employees and external candidates.
Why Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory?
- Included in 2026 Best Places to Work by Glassdoor!
- Flexible Benefits Package
- 401(k)
- Relocation Assistance
- Education Reimbursement Program
- Flexible schedules (*depending on project needs)
- Our values - visit https://www.llnl.gov/inclusion/our-values
Security Clearance
This position requires a Department of Energy (DOE) Q-level clearance. If you are selected, we will initiate a Federal background investigation to determine if you meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or matter. Also, all L or Q cleared employees are subject to random drug testing. Q-level clearance requires U.S. citizenship.
Pre-Employment Drug Test
External applicant(s) selected for this position must pass a post-offer, pre-employment drug test. This includes testing for use of marijuana as Federal Law applies to us as a Federal Contractor.
Wireless and Medical Devices
Per the Department of Energy (DOE), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory must meet certain restrictions with the use and/or possession of mobile devices in Limited Areas. Depending on your job duties, you may be required to work in a Limited Area where you are not permitted to have a personal and/or laboratory mobile device in your possession. This includes, but not limited to cell phones, tablets, fitness devices, wireless headphones, and other Bluetooth/wireless enabled devices.
If you use a medical device, which pairs with a mobile device, you must still follow the rules concerning the mobile device in individual sections within Limited Areas. Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities require separate approval. Hearing aids without wireless capabilities or wireless that has been disabled are allowed in Limited Areas, Secure Space and Transit/Buffer Space within buildings.
How to identify fake job advertisements
Please be aware of recruitment scams where people or entities are misusing the name of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to post fake job advertisements. LLNL never extends an offer without a personal interview and will never charge a fee for joining our company. All current job openings are displayed on the Career Page under “Find Your Job” of our website. If you have encountered a job posting or have been approached with a job offer that you suspect may be fraudulent, we strongly recommend you do not respond.
To learn more about recruitment scams: https://www.llnl.gov/sites/www/files/2023-05/LLNL-Job-Fraud-Statement-Updated-4.26.23.pdf
Equal Employment Opportunity
We are an equal opportunity employer that is committed to providing all with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, marital status, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status, age, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.
Reasonable Accommodation
Our goal is to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates applying and interviewing at the Laboratory. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please use our online form to submit a request.
California Privacy Notice
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) grants privacy rights to all California residents. The law also entitles job applicants, employees, and non-employee workers to be notified of what personal information LLNL collects and for what purpose. The Employee Privacy Notice can be accessed here.
Company Description
Join us and make YOUR mark on the World!
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has turned bold ideas into world-changing impact advancing science and technology to strengthen U.S. security and promote global stability.
Our mission spans four critical national security areas nuclear deterrence, threat preparedness, energy security, and multi-domain defense empowering teams to take on the toughest challenges of today and tomorrow. With a culture built on innovation and operational excellence, LLNL is a place where your expertise can make a real impact.
Job Description
Site Infrastructure Management is seeking a Project Portfolio Manager to lead and manage a ~$100M portfolio of complex decontamination, decommissioning, demolition, and disposition projects within the Transition and Disposition (T&D) portfolio. This position is in the Site Infrastructure Management (SIM). You will report directly to the Project Management Division Lead.
The successful candidate will provide technical and operational leadership for a portfolio of demolition and disposition (D&D) projects involving the removal of legacy facilities. This position directly manages assigned complex and strategically significant projects while leading, coaching, coordinating, and integrating the broader portfolio team.
Site Infrastructure Management (SIM) provides integrated capabilities in strategic site vision and planning, project delivery from concept through execution, removal of legacy facilities, and maintaining and operating facilities. By aligning institutional infrastructure demands for mission support with project development and day-to-day operations, SIM ensures that LLNL’s sites and buildings are reliable, resilient, and maintained to be ready to meet the evolving national security mission.
This position may offer a hybrid schedule, which includes the flexibility to work from home one or more days per week, after a probationary period. The specifics of the hybrid schedule, including the exact number of days required in the office and virtual work options may vary based on the needs of the team and the organization.
You will
- Lead a portfolio of concurrent projects, integrating scope, schedule, budget, risks, resources, and performance.
- Directly manage assigned complex, high-priority, or strategically significant projects within the portfolio, with accountability for scope, cost, schedule, risk, technical performance, and closeout.
- Establish portfolio priorities, execution strategies, and long-range plans.
- Provide leadership, direction, coaching, and technical oversight to project managers, construction managers, coordinators, and matrixed project teams.
- Coordinate with customers, facility stakeholders, technical organizations, management, regulators, and other partners to define requirements and resolve project issues.
- Ensure projects comply with applicable safety, environmental, quality, security, regulatory, and project-management requirements.
- Monitor portfolio performance; identify risks, issues, opportunities, and dependencies; and develop mitigation and recovery actions.
- Oversee scope definition, cost estimating, schedule development, resource planning, acquisition strategy, and change control.
- Prepare and communicate portfolio status, forecasts, risks, opportunities, and recommendations to management and customers.
- Foster a collaborative, accountable, and customer-focused culture that promotes continuous improvement in project delivery.
- Support the development and implementation of common portfolio-management processes, tools, metrics, and best practices across the Site Infrastructure Management.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Ability to secure and maintain a U.S. DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management, business, or a related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- Extensive experience leading complex technical, operational, facilities, infrastructure, construction, or capital-asset projects.
- Demonstrated experience leading or managing projects involving facility transition, deactivation, decommissioning, demolition, waste disposition, environmental management, or site reuse in a regulated environment.
- Demonstrated experience independently managing complex projects from initiation through closeout, including scope definition, cost and schedule baselines, risk management, stakeholder coordination, change control, and performance reporting.
- Demonstrated experience managing a portfolio or multiple concurrent projects, including scope, cost, schedule, risk, resources, and stakeholder expectations.
- Advanced knowledge of project-management principles, project controls, cost estimating, scheduling, risk management, and performance reporting.
- Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary and matrixed teams and influence outcomes across organizational boundaries.
- Advanced written, verbal, facilitation, negotiation, and presentation skills.
- Demonstrated ability to advise management and customers on significant project, operational, technical, and resource decisions.
Qualifications We Desire
- Post graduate education in engineering, engineering management, project management, business, or a related technical field.
- Project Management Professional (PMP), Program Management Professional (PgMP), or comparable certification.
- Experience in DOE/NNSA, federal, laboratory, or similarly regulated environments.
- Experience with earned value management, Primavera P6, integrated cost and schedule management, or project-reporting systems.
- Experience leading through project managers, team leads, or matrixed organizations.
- Experience with facility, utility, construction, maintenance, or infrastructure projects.
- Experience with radiological or hazardous waste management, environmental permitting and compliance, and DOE or comparable regulatory requirements.
Pay Range
$200,760 - $254,544 Annually
This is the lowest to highest salary range in good faith we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.
Additional Information
#LI-Hybrid
Position Information
This is a Career Indefinite position, open to Lab employees and external candidates.
Why Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory?
- Included in 2026 Best Places to Work by Glassdoor!
- Flexible Benefits Package
- 401(k)
- Relocation Assistance
- Education Reimbursement Program
- Flexible schedules (*depending on project needs)
- Our values - visit https://www.llnl.gov/inclusion/our-values
Security Clearance
This position requires a Department of Energy (DOE) Q-level clearance. If you are selected, we will initiate a Federal background investigation to determine if you meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or matter. Also, all L or Q cleared employees are subject to random drug testing. Q-level clearance requires U.S. citizenship.
Pre-Employment Drug Test
External applicant(s) selected for this position must pass a post-offer, pre-employment drug test. This includes testing for use of marijuana as Federal Law applies to us as a Federal Contractor.
Wireless and Medical Devices
Per the Department of Energy (DOE), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory must meet certain restrictions with the use and/or possession of mobile devices in Limited Areas. Depending on your job duties, you may be required to work in a Limited Area where you are not permitted to have a personal and/or laboratory mobile device in your possession. This includes, but not limited to cell phones, tablets, fitness devices, wireless headphones, and other Bluetooth/wireless enabled devices.
If you use a medical device, which pairs with a mobile device, you must still follow the rules concerning the mobile device in individual sections within Limited Areas. Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities require separate approval. Hearing aids without wireless capabilities or wireless that has been disabled are allowed in Limited Areas, Secure Space and Transit/Buffer Space within buildings.
How to identify fake job advertisements
Please be aware of recruitment scams where people or entities are misusing the name of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to post fake job advertisements. LLNL never extends an offer without a personal interview and will never charge a fee for joining our company. All current job openings are displayed on the Career Page under “Find Your Job” of our website. If you have encountered a job posting or have been approached with a job offer that you suspect may be fraudulent, we strongly recommend you do not respond.
To learn more about recruitment scams: https://www.llnl.gov/sites/www/files/2023-05/LLNL-Job-Fraud-Statement-Updated-4.26.23.pdf
Equal Employment Opportunity
We are an equal opportunity employer that is committed to providing all with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, marital status, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status, age, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.
Reasonable Accommodation
Our goal is to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates applying and interviewing at the Laboratory. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please use our online form to submit a request.
California Privacy Notice
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) grants privacy rights to all California residents. The law also entitles job applicants, employees, and non-employee workers to be notified of what personal information LLNL collects and for what purpose. The Employee Privacy Notice can be accessed here.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Insurance
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote transition manager jobs.
- 5 or more years of experience managing organizational or IT transitions end to end
- PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent project management certification
- Demonstrated experience with change management frameworks such as Prosci ADKAR
- Proficiency with project management tools including MS Project, Smartsheet, or Jira
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, information systems, or a related field
- Experience developing stakeholder communication plans and executive status reporting
Tips for Your Remote Transition Manager Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote transition manager openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your background and apply directly. Remote postings at distributed organizations often close fast once the right candidate pool fills.
Show your async stakeholder management skills
Remote transition managers communicate progress, risks, and decisions almost entirely in writing. Document examples of stakeholder updates, change readiness reports, or escalation memos you have written. Concrete writing samples do more work than a bullet point claiming strong communication.
Highlight distributed project coordination tools
Remote employers screen for fluency with tools like Confluence, Jira, Microsoft Teams, and project tracking platforms. Name these explicitly in your application materials and describe how you used them to coordinate transition workstreams across teams in different locations.
Prepare a remote work structure for interviews
Remote transition manager interviews often include a question about how you manage accountability without in-person check-ins. Have a clear answer describing your cadence for status updates, risk flags, and decision escalations when working with a fully distributed team.
Remote Transition Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote transition manager job?
Remote transition manager roles go to candidates who can demonstrate strong async communication, self-direction, and the ability to manage stakeholders across time zones without in-person touchpoints. Remote-first technology companies, consulting firms, and healthcare organizations are among the most active hirers. Showing documented change management experience, fluency with collaboration tools like Confluence and Jira, and a portfolio of completed transitions gives you a clear edge.
Which companies hire remote transition managers?
Remote transition manager roles are posted by Alliant Insurance Services, Optum, and Eide Bailly and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These tend to be remote-first technology companies, distributed consulting practices, and large healthcare or financial services organizations that run ongoing transformation programs across multiple locations.
Can you get a remote transition manager job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level transition manager roles are harder to land because employers expect you to work independently from day one with minimal oversight. Smaller remote-first companies and consulting firms are most likely to hire junior candidates. You can strengthen your case by showing project coordination work, change management coursework or certifications, and a clear ability to communicate progress in writing without being prompted.
Do you need a degree for remote transition manager jobs?
Not always. Remote employers weigh demonstrated change management competency heavily, so certifications like PMP or Prosci ADKAR, a portfolio of completed transitions, and strong references from distributed projects can carry as much weight as a degree. That said, larger organizations in regulated sectors like healthcare and financial services often list a bachelor's degree as a baseline requirement.
Which industries hire the most remote transition managers?
The sectors hiring the most remote transition managers are Insurance, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These industries rely heavily on distributed teams running complex technology or operational change programs that require dedicated transition oversight across multiple geographies.
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