About The Position

Duties/Description

This position is in the Hydrogen with Carbon Management division within the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management.  The division provides Headquarters oversight, management, and direction of the DOE’s research, development, and demonstration activities to increase the availability, efficiency, and reliability of clean hydrogen systems while maintaining environmental standards. While the primary focus is on the conversion of natural gas, biomass waste, waste plastics, or waste coal or petroleum coke into clean hydrogen through coupling with carbon capture and reliable storage, there will be paralleled efforts to the conversion of clean hydrogen to electricity.

The incumbent of this position will serve as the Advanced Energy Materials Program Manager, focusing on the development, processing, and characterization of structural materials.  The program’s current focus is to enable the transition of fossil energy technologies to low-carbon hydrogen. This includes materials for: hydrogen production from carbonaceous sources with carbon capture; power generation from hydrogen combustion turbines: and solid oxide fuel cells/solid oxide electrolysis cells.

Qualifications

Qualified candidates must demonstrate:

• Knowledge of and experience in materials science, metallurgy, or materials engineering.
• Knowledge of integrated computational materials engineering techniques.
• Skill in oral and written communication to develop, present and convey engineering and project information to diverse audiences.
• Knowledge of project management principles, methods, and practices to effectively manage or lead engineering projects of significant size, scope, and complexity.
• Skill in program management activities to effectively determine and establish program goals, review progress and results, and lead or participate as a subject matter expert in a variety of program assessments, and recommend additions, terminations, or modifications of programs.