Advisory Project Engineer

Edgewater Technical Associates • Aiken, SC

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Edgewater Technical Associates is seeking qualified candidates for an Advisory Project Engineer opportunity to support the Savannah River Site. This role involves initiating technical programs, making recommendations to management based on customer needs and technology trends, and resolving complex technical problems. The engineer will apply advanced technical practices and incorporate complex features into problem-solving and program planning. They will provide leadership in determining solutions, recommend research programs, and mentor less senior professionals. The position requires integrating and managing engineering activities for assigned projects, including establishing design criteria, resource forecasts, schedules, and priorities, and applying project management tools and methods.

Requirements

• 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.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE “Q” security clearance (an active DOE clearance is not initially required to perform assigned duties).

Nice To Haves

• Registered PE licensure in any state.
• Possessed an active DOE clearance (L or Q) within the past two (2) years.

Responsibilities

• Initiate own technical programs and make recommendations to management on technical programs based on analysis of customer needs and technology trends.
• 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 to 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 in the company and external resources, to resolve complex problems.
• Incorporate advanced technical practices and a variety of complex features such as complicated technical requirements, application of new or special materials or processes and difficult coordination or oversight requirements into problem solving and program planning.
• Provide leadership in determining solutions to complex problems and is 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, acts as a technical communicator across disciplines to optimize the creative solution of technical problems.
• Conceive needed programs for self and for others in the department.
• Put needs in perspective with regard to other technical needs at SRNS.
• 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 SRNS and SRS in technical areas to oversight groups and professional societies.
• Mentor less senior professionals in communication skills and 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.
• Maintain excellent technical credibility by contributing significantly toward meeting Site missions and goals which may be demonstrated by issuing reports, making presentations, and/or involvement in national technical organizations.
• Integrate and manage engineering activities for assigned projects by assisting in establishing design criteria, resource, resource forecasts, schedulers, 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 those tasks.
• 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.

Benefits

• highly competitive salaries
• employee benefit packages
• multiple individual and family benefit options
• paid time off
• medical
• dental
• life
• vision
• disability insurance
• pre- and post-tax 401 (k) retirement account with Company matching contributions
• 100% vesting for eligible participants beginning DAY 1

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior