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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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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in transition project manager jobs.
- PMP certification or equivalent project management credential
- Experience leading organizational change or IT transition programs
- Proficiency with project management tools such as MS Project, Smartsheet, or Jira
- Strong stakeholder communication and executive reporting skills
- PROSCI or change management certification such as ADKAR
- Bachelor's degree in business, information technology, or a related field
Tips for Your Transition Project Manager Job Search
Tailor your resume for change complexity
Transition project managers are hired to manage ambiguity, so your resume needs to show it. Quantify the scale of changes you've led, the number of stakeholders involved, and the risk reduction you achieved, not just that projects were delivered on time.
Highlight your change methodology credentials
Many postings screen for a PMP, PROSCI certification, or Agile credentials before reading anything else. List yours prominently near the top of your resume, and name the frameworks you've actually applied, whether ADKAR, Kotter, or a hybrid approach.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists transition project manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Search by industry vertical, not just title
Transition project manager roles in healthcare system integrations look very different from those in financial services mergers. Filter your searches by industry so your experience aligns with what hiring managers actually need, and customize your cover letter to reflect that context.
Prepare a structured stakeholder story for interviews
Interviewers for transition roles almost always ask how you managed resistance from senior stakeholders. Prepare two specific examples where you shifted a skeptical leader or department, with a clear before-and-after framing that shows your influence strategy, not just the outcome.
Negotiate scope clarity before accepting an offer
Transition roles are notorious for scope creep after hire. During negotiations, ask directly which workstreams you own versus which you support, and confirm whether a formal transition charter exists. Getting this in writing protects your ability to deliver and to negotiate resources.
Transition Project Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most transition project managers?
The most active employers for transition project managers right now are Abacus.Ai, BAE Systems USA, and Applied Materials, and the most openings are in Texas, Arizona, and Iowa, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Healthcare systems, federal contractors, and large financial institutions tend to hire most consistently for this role.
How many transition project manager jobs are remote?
About 38% of transition project manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting strong demand for flexible arrangements in this role. Sub-areas like IT system migrations and change management program oversight tend to be the most remote-friendly, while on-site presence is more common for facility or operational transitions.
How do you become a transition project manager?
Start by building a foundation in project management, either through a PMP certification or hands-on experience coordinating cross-functional projects. From there, seek out roles or assignments that involve organizational change, system migrations, or mergers. Adding a change management certification like PROSCI strengthens your profile significantly. Most transition project managers come up through general project management, program coordination, or operations roles before specializing.
Can you get a transition project manager job with little experience?
Yes, entry points exist, but you need to frame your experience around change and complexity rather than routine project delivery. Roles like change coordinator, project coordinator on a migration initiative, or business analyst on a systems transition can all serve as stepping stones. Employers hiring at the associate level typically look for demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and communicate across departments, even without a formal title.
What does the transition project manager interview process look like?
Most hiring processes for this role include a phone screen with HR, a structured behavioral interview focused on how you've managed change resistance and stakeholder conflict, and a final round with a panel that often includes operations or IT leaders. Some employers ask candidates to walk through a past transition plan or present a brief case study. References from prior project sponsors carry significant weight at the offer stage.
Where can I find and apply to transition project manager jobs?
You can find and apply to transition project manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that match your experience and specialization, then apply directly to each listing from the page.
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