Jan 12, 2008

Observation from a reader

Dear Pinky and The Brain,

Please post this anonymously... Thank you.

While browsing the web for scientist jobs today, I happened to come across these job ads. So, if there was ever any doubt as to the direction of LANL from the NNSA, this pretty much clinches it. Not an editorial comment or any other observation intended except to provide proof of NNSA's intentions, as actions speak louder than words.

Best Regards

10. General Engineer / Physical Scientist
US-NM-Los Alamos, NMDepartment of Energy
01/04/2008 to 01/18/2008

The incumbent serves as the Startup Manager in the Los Alamos Site Office supporting nuclear facility design/construction and readiness integration activities as well as actual startup of new nuclear facilities. Works with Federal Project Directors and Laboratory Project Managers to integrate readiness/startup early in the design phase ensuring a seamless transition to startup of new nuclear facil...

11. General Engineer / Physical Scientist
US-NM-Los Alamos, NMDepartment of Energy
01/04/2008 to 01/18/2008

The incumbent serves as the Startup Manager in the Los Alamos Site Office supporting nuclear facility design/construction and readiness integration activities as well as actual startup of new nuclear facilities. Works with Federal Project Directors and Laboratory Project Managers to integrate readiness/startup early in the design phase ensuring a seamless transition to startup of new nuclear facil...
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12. General Engineer/Physical Scientist
US-NM-Los Alamos, NMDepartment of Energy
01/04/2008 to 01/18/2008

The incumbent of this position serves as the Startup Manager in the Los Alamos Site Office supporting nuclear facility design/construction and readiness integration activities as well as actual startup of new nuclear facilities. Works with Federal Project Directors and Laboratory Project Managers to integrate readiness/startup early in the design phase ensuring a seamless transition to startup of ...
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13. General Engineer/Physical Scientist
US-NM-Los Alamos, NMDepartment of Energy
01/04/2008 to 01/18/2008

The incumbent of this position serves as the Startup Manager in the Los Alamos Site Office supporting nuclear facility design/construction and readiness integration activities as well as actual startup of new nuclear facilities. Works with Federal Project Directors and Laboratory Project Managers to integrate readiness/startup early in the design phase ensuring a seamless transition to startup of ...

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

WFO. That must be what these guys are bring brought on for -- they are going to help Mike bring in lots of nice alternative energy research WFO.

Right?

Anonymous said...

These 4 job ads are all for the same job - only one opening.

Further review of the current openings include a fire protection engineer, system engineer, etc. The system engineer posting may be for multiple openings.

Anonymous said...

There are a lot of other openings posted as well for scientists and postdocs for various programs. I guess I could pull those out as proof of the opposite point you are making by posting these selected ones? Wise up.

Anonymous said...

To 10:05 am

Yes, you are right! But if you examine the FEDERAL job list in New Mexico, you will find that the physical science jobs that aren't administering Nuclear Facilities are in Albq. and other places in southern New Mexico. The fact that these jobs were posted with relatively short fuses would allow one to infer that actions will be coming soon.

As for your other statements, only time will tell. It would be interesting to compare notes in several years, as no one here can really see the future! By the way, if you can, there is a 1 million dollar prize waiting for you from the James Randi foundation--you only need to prove it.

Anonymous said...

As best I can tell, there's no point to this post, nor any of the comments associated with it. So DOE is hiring in the LASO, and has managed to post the same job 4X. Big deal.

Apply for the job if you want, but it's not evidence of a vast conspiracy against LANL -- nor evidence of the absence of the same.

Anonymous said...

Some people won't believe the pit factory scenario for LANL until the facility is constructed, the jobs profile completely changes, and the LANL name is switched over to Los Alamos Pit Facility (LAPF). Even then, they'll probably still be questioning whether LANL is *really* changing directions. The clueless continue to amaze me at this place.

Anonymous said...

Jobs posted with a "short fuse" means that cronies have already been selected to fill them.

Anonymous said...

The "pit factory" is already a reality. Whether this is all that LANL will be doing in the future remains to be seen, but that destiny is not entirely owned by others. Those of us that still work at LANL have a say in this.

Anonymous said...

For more relevant clues, check the job opportunities at Bechtel Corp Headquarters for Los Alamos, NM.....

Anonymous said...

They want people that do not think for themselves.

Anonymous said...

For more relevant clues, check the job opportunities at Bechtel Corp Headquarters for Los Alamos, NM.....

1/13/08 9:35 PM

There is not a Bechtel Los Alamos....What are you trying to say, or are you just stupid

Anonymous said...

9:14am, it is not a stretch to understand that 9:35 is referring to jobs listed at the bechtel hdqtrs website for positions located in los alamos. Or are you just stupid?

Anonymous said...

9:14am, it is not a stretch to understand that 9:35 is referring to jobs listed at the bechtel hdqtrs website for positions located in los alamos. Or are you just stupid?

1/14/08 7:24 PM

No, I went to the Bechtel web site and there was No Bechtel Los Alamos, and there were NO jobs posted for Los Alamos.

...but I guess I am just plain stupid.

Anonymous said...

No shortage of stupidity on this blog, that's for sure.

Thanks, everybody, for making that clear.

Anonymous said...

Thanks, everybody, for making that clear.

1/14/08 8:45 PM


...and thanks for clarifying that. I do not think anyone was aware of the issue.

Anonymous said...

It's my understanding that Bechtel employees who come to LANL from another DOE facility get to compute their LANL years as if they had been working here during their entire Bechtel/DOE career.

Bechtel doesn't want to transfer just any worker to LANL. They want to reserve the transfers for their oldest employees so they can dump responsibilities for accrued benefits onto LANS back.

Thus, don't expect to see ads on the Bechtel site for Los Alamos positions. That would ruining the whole idea of using LANL as a convenient dumping ground.