The Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute, is the national institute on Smart Manufacturing (SM) for the United States. The Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC) is the organization within UCLA and administrative home of CESMII, which it operates in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office. CESMII drives innovation in SM through a membership network, education and workforce development program, funded research projects, and a Smart Manufacturing Innovation Platform.
Smart Manufacturing is the application of advanced technologies such as sensors, controls, analytics, modeling, and platforms to increase efficiency in manufacturing. CESMII’s mission is to accelerate SM adoption, which will radically impact manufacturing performance through measurable improvements in areas such as quality, throughput, costs/profitability, safety, asset reliability, and energy productivity. By enabling frictionless movement of raw and contextualized data (i.e., information) between real-time operations and the people and systems that create value in and across manufacturing organizations, CESMII is ensuring the power of information and innovation is at the fingertips of everyone who touches manufacturing.
Position Summary
The Compliance Manager conducts the required training and communications, oversees the process, maintains the necessary records, and generates the appropriate documentation to ensure that:
- All CESMII program staff and subrecipients abide by the compliance aspects of the Department of Energy (DOE) cooperative agreement and UCLA policies and procedures.
- All CESMII members abide by the compliance aspects of the CESMII Membership Agreement and Bylaws and Plans documents.
- All appointees of Governance Board, Standing Committees, Advisory Committees, and other working groups abide by the compliance aspects of their Board/Committee appointment agreements.
The Compliance Manager ensures that CESMII meets all institute and program reporting requirements under the cooperative agreement with DOE and under UCLA policies and procedures.
The Compliance Manager also performs the ‘IP Manager’ function as defined by the CESMII Intellectual Property (IP) Management Plan. The IP Manager function is responsible for acquiring, storing, and providing access to CESMII’s technology portfolio. The IP Manager will work in conjunction with, and under policies administered by the UCLA Technology Development Group on: disclosures of Foreground and Background IP, Institute patent application filings and office actions, and maintaining the files for the IP sharing/licensing/commercialization agreements. For the IP Manager function, the Compliance Manager works under the project management guidance of the CTO and the IP Advisory Committee (IPAC).
The Compliance Manager works closely with the CESMII Program Principal Investigator (PI), CEO, COO, CTO, management team, CESMII Staff, and UCLA support resources. The role will also develop outside working relationships with CESMII Governance Board appointees, the Dept of Energy (DOE) program oversight team, CESMII membership base, SMIC Directors (subrecipients), and CESMII project team subrecipients.
Reports directly to CESMII COO. Works under the policy and oversight guidance of the CTO, IP Advisory Committee (IPAC), UCLA Director of Export Controls, UCLA Research Policy and Compliance (RPC) office, and Technology Development Group (TDG).