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LANL is hiring!

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By scooby

 LANL plans to hire 1,000 more employees.



I find this interesting as SNL was talking about a layoff and only has 11 openings, and LLNL has only 75 openings.

The question is where are these 1,000 employees going to live unless there is a big group of retirements in the future and they are all moving to Phoenix or Florida.

https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/santa-fe-northern-new-mexico/los-alamos-national-lab-announces-plans-to-hire-up-to-17000-workers/

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Anonymous said…
“Our focus in recruiting has shifted quite a bit,” she said. “We are focused more heavily on the New Mexico schools, but also the regional schools – so that [new hires] wouldn’t get here and immediately lose their minds if there are no shopping malls or restaurants open past 8 o’clock.” - Angela Mielke

Translation, we have given up on quality and are focusing on the plumbers, electricians, machinists, waste management and compliance people we need to spit out 30 pits a year at Rocky Flats on the Hill.
8/03/2025 10:42 AM
Anonymous said…
I think SNL is getting punished for being well-managed. The problem child LANL, which misses all its pit production targets, gets rewarded with more funding year after year. I expect this process to exponentiate.
8/03/2025 11:25 AM
Anonymous said…
“We are focusing on the plumbers, electricians, machinists, waste management, and compliance people.”

LLNL actively tried to cut all of the Machinists, plumber and electrician jobs after the transition… looks like it didn’t work out for them once they got 2 LEP’s. When you run your infrastructure into the ground or expect the outside machine shops to produce classified or hazardous parts you fall flat on your face.
8/03/2025 4:49 PM
scooby said…
What are LEPs?
8/03/2025 7:25 PM
Anonymous said…
Scooby you can’t be serious, the largest portion of the LLNL budget for the past 10 years once you remove the major infrastructure spending and fixed overhead costs, it drives a portion of Pit production at LANL, heck even certain experiments at LANL. This also drives significant work at Sandia for LEP’s from both labs. The LEP and Mods work at LANL are driving the OP about this hiring spree so I don’t know what to even say at this point.
8/03/2025 9:15 PM
Anonymous said…
LEP = Life Extension Program.
https://2009-2017.state.gov/t/avc/rls/202015.htm
8/03/2025 11:46 PM
Anonymous said…
Life Extension Programs. Like the nuclear weapons equivalent of museum curator.
8/04/2025 5:21 AM
Anonymous said…
Yes, they incorrectly assumed that the future would be about science and innovation and put all of their eggs in the NIF basket. Meanwhile, here at LANL, we are reliving the glory days of the Cold War, pits and all.
8/04/2025 5:23 AM
Anonymous said…
Things could turn around for SNL with the expiration of treaties and the ramp up in nuclear production from China and even Iran. SNL may be asked to design a suite of new weapons packages in the near future.
8/04/2025 5:26 AM
Anonymous said…
The thing Angela and almost all of the senior management forget is that Los Alamos’ environs were much more austere during the Manhattan Project than they are today. It isn’t a lack of shopping malls that puts people off, but a lack of a real mission.
8/04/2025 6:21 AM
scooby said…
What wasn't I serious about?
8/04/2025 6:11 PM
Anonymous said…
During the Manhattan Project, almost all the staff left after the war ended.
8/05/2025 6:52 AM
Anonymous said…
"During the Manhattan Project, almost all the staff left after the war ended.

False. Out of curiosity where did you get this idea? I am always amazed but the comments Facebook or Blogs that so confidently say something that is completely incorrect. They will then double down when confronted with facts

This is just bizarre with in the present day Google AI in which you can type in a statement and have it confirmed as bs in seconds.

Type this "after the war almost all the Manhattan project staff left" into Google AI and see what you get. Learn from this and try the same thing on every other statement before you post. AI can be your friend so take advantage of the technology.
8/05/2025 2:08 PM
Anonymous said…
How else are you going to test those pit material properties at high pressures, or high neutron environments without going critical in the Nevada desert?
8/05/2025 6:03 PM
Anonymous said…
According to that search engine the staff was at a high of 8,000 during the war and 18,000 today. That doesn’t even take into account that Sandia was spun off from UC-LASL Z division in 1949 as its own separate entity after the war. Or that Teller wanted his own lab what would become UC-LRL
8/06/2025 6:25 PM
Anonymous said…
Damnit, I want my own lab now too. I'm going to create a lab where science and engineering work is valued over process and paperwork and breakthroughs can actually be achieved. The overhead rate will be less than 85% and there will be plenty of parking. To top it off the cafeteria will sell decent food for decent prices, not overpriced prison rations. Leaky roofs will get patched, crumbling stairs will be replaced and air conditioners will blow cold air. Computers will function and particle accelerators will accelerate. All this for just under $6 billion in annual expenses. At least I am still free to dream.
8/06/2025 10:25 PM
Anonymous said…
If you want to dream… I don’t need a new lab, I’d just like to go back to 2005 with the project funding scope of today. Both labs under UC.
UC pension at 2005 cost to employees. The ability to send my kids to UC on an average worker salary. Ability to transfer from lab to lab and keep your years of service.
8/07/2025 5:35 PM
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