Advisory Engineer - Project Engineer

OUTSOURCE Consulting Services, Inc.•Aiken, SC

10h•Onsite

About The Position

Seeking an Advisory Engineer - Project Engineer to support our federal government client in Aiken, SC. This role involves initiating technical programs, resolving complex technical problems, and providing leadership in technical specialization. The engineer will also be responsible for developing and managing project plans, schedules, and budgets, and communicating results to various stakeholders. Additionally, the position offers staff augmentation support, integrating and managing engineering activities, and applying project management tools and methods. The candidate will work with client processes and procedures, and programmatic guidance will be provided by the client. A key aspect of the role is the ability to perform field walk-downs, which may involve construction sites, climbing ladders, and wearing protective clothing. The candidate must also be able to produce quality documents, coordinate with diverse teams, and mentor junior professionals.

Requirements

Registered PE licensure in any state
Experience with EVMS tools
Candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a DOE "Q" security clearance.
Candidate must be able to perform field walk-downs of the job site for the engineering work being performed. These walk-downs may involve construction sites with uneven surfaces and work in progress, walking for distances over a half mile, climbing ladders to access remote areas, dressing out in protective clothing and environments where a respirator is required.
Candidate must have the ability to produce quality documents with attention to detail and meeting management defined expectations.
Candidate must have the ability to coordinate, interface, and communicate with management, engineering, facility, operations, quality assurance, and test personnel.
Candidate must have the ability to communicate clear, concise, and accurate reports, evaluations, documents, procedures, reviews, comment resolutions, email, and oral presentations.
Candidate must have the ability to mentor junior team members and develop their design knowledge.
BS Degree in Engineering or current registration as a Professional Engineer

Nice To Haves

Providing overall engineering and design direction, leadership, and management for assigned projects and tasks.
Integrating engineering resources for assigned projects by assisting in establishing design criteria, resource forecasts, schedules, and engineering tools for engineering tasks.
Providing administrative guidance to leads and managers.
Responsibilities for overall management, scheduling, and priority of the tasks and projects assigned.

Responsibilities

Initiate own technical programs and make recommendations to management on technical programs based on analysis of customer needs and technology trends.
Reach solutions to the most complex technical problems in field(s) of expertise and influence solutions in neighboring disciplines.
Apply technical experience in field of specialization or broad-based experience in multiple technical fields, and use other technical resources to resolve complex problems.
Incorporate advanced technical practices and a variety of complex features into problem solving and program planning.
Provide leadership in determining solutions to complex problems and be recognized as having expertise in a functional area of technical specialization.
Recommend research programs for others in group and assist in that planning.
Develop solutions to the most complex technical problems in areas of expertise and in adjacent technical fields, influence technical direction of other parts of the department, and act as a technical communicator across disciplines.
Conceive needed programs for self and for others in the department.
Put needs in perspective with regard to other technical needs with the client.
Sponsor new ideas in the department.
Prepare plans including schedules, budgets and personnel requirements for solving major technical tasks for division.
Develop schedules, monitor progress, monitor expenditures of budget and review quality of work performed.
Include research, development, testing, quality assurance requirements.
Communicate results verbally and in manuscripts form.
Report regularly the results and represent the client and SRS in technical areas to oversight groups and professional societies.
Mentor less senior professionals in communication skills.
Maintain excellent technical credibility by contributing significantly toward meeting Site missions and goals.
Mentor less senior professionals as a means of transferring technical knowledge and insight.
Recommend engineering and technology research, development and application programs for others and assist in the planning of such programs.
Demonstrate commitment to TQ concepts by active leadership leading to successful implementation of Division and Department TQ Initiatives.
Be a resource for TQ initiatives in Department and Division.
Provide staff augmentation support to the client.
Integrate and manage engineering activities for assigned projects by assisting in establishing design criteria, resource forecasts, schedules, and priorities.
Provide project management tools and methods to assigned projects and support development of future projects.
Manage project tasks and deliver results for cost and schedule of those tasks.
Managing the administration, document control, project controls, and quality engineering sections for all assigned projects through section supervisors.
Resolving conflicts between project direction and technical direction from the functional managers.
Participating in department and site-wide programmatic issues resolution and quality improvements.
Responsibilities for creating a team through requesting, evaluating, and developing engineering expertise capable of achieving the objectives of the projects assigned.
Evaluating tasks of subcontractors to ensure design output meets project technical, cost, and schedule objectives.
Establishing baselines for design activities for all assigned projects and engineering work requests.
Recommending to project managers, subcontractor authorizations for new work and changes to baselines.
Evaluating project cost and schedule variances and implement corrective actions.
Reviewing cost accounts for procurement of engineered materials.
Working with diverse teams to deliver results.
Establishing projects' scope of work including assuring that there are firm customer requirements developed.
Performing field walk-downs of the job site for the engineering work being performed.
Producing quality documents with attention to detail and meeting management defined expectations.
Coordinating, interfacing, and communicating with management, engineering, facility, operations, quality assurance, and test personnel.
Communicating clear, concise, and accurate reports, evaluations, documents, procedures, reviews, comment resolutions, email, and oral presentations.
Mentoring junior team members and developing their design knowledge.
Providing overall engineering and design direction, leadership, and management for assigned projects and tasks.
Integrating engineering resources for assigned projects by assisting in establishing design criteria, resource forecasts, schedules, and engineering tools for engineering tasks.
Providing administrative guidance to leads and managers.
Responsibilities for overall management, scheduling, and priority of the tasks and projects assigned.