Sr. Project Engineer
About The Position
Strategic Management Solutions, LLC (SMSI) is seeking a full-time Senior Project Engineer to work 100% onsite with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), leading engineering efforts for large-scale infrastructure and security-oriented projects. The role provides technical leadership for physical security installations and infrastructure deployments, translating complex designs into secure, high-performing facilities. The Senior Project Engineer serves as the primary technical liaison among project management, multidisciplinary design teams, physical security engineers, and construction management, and is accountable for the engineering lifecycle of assigned scope from project definition and design development through construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout. The position coordinates design interfaces and engineering changes, supports construction and commercial activities at the job site, and ensures work meets technical, security, quality, safety, schedule, budget, and contract requirements. The successful candidate will provide engineering direction, manage technical risks and deliverables, resolve field issues, and guide junior engineers.
Requirements
- 10+ years of project engineering experience focused on commercial infrastructure, civil works, or high-security/government-adjacent facilities.
- Hands-on, proficient experience with Project Sight or equivalent project-management software, Delta for cost or financial tracking, Aproove or equivalent proofing/design-review software, and Microsoft Office Suite.
- Willingness and capability to work 100% onsite at LANL designated project locations.
- Exceptional attention to detail regarding physical-layout compliance, document control, and communication under tight project deadlines.
- Ability to make sound technical decisions, coordinate diverse stakeholders, manage technical risk, and communicate clear, timely engineering direction.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q clearance.
- U.S. citizenship.
- Active Real-ID driver’s license.
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience directly related to the occupation.
Nice To Haves
- Demonstrated experience leading work through design, field execution, turnover, and closeout in a high-consequence, security-sensitive, or nuclear-facility environment is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate security and infrastructure design interfaces across MEP, structural, network architectures, and specialized physical and electronic security subsystems.
- Use Aproove to manage collaborative proofing and review and approval of security layouts, structures, communications, site work, construction drawings, schematics, and design iterations.
- Conduct constructability reviews addressing high-security requirements, physical barriers, access-control layouts, and critical utility pathing.
- Develop efficient engineering solutions that support infrastructure longevity and physical security while meeting budgets and contract requirements.
- Lead combined Project Engineer and Field Engineer functions and serve as the accountable engineering point of contact for assigned scope.
- Integrate design work across civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, fire protection, network, security, and facility-system interfaces.
- Lead engineering coordination with designers of record, construction subcontractors, facility operations, safety, security, quality, and other stakeholders.
- Manage engineering changes and technical-resolution processes, including Field Change Requests, Design Revision Notices, Requests for Information, nonconformance dispositions, design clarifications, constructability reviews, and field-change evaluations.
- Manage technical document control, submittals, and RFIs at the job site using Project Sight.
- Perform cost engineering and progress tracking using Delta; evaluate subcontractor change orders, manage cost projections, and maintain commercial compliance.
- Resolve complex field conflicts while protecting security design intent.
- Track critical scheduling milestones using Microsoft Office tools and optimize sequencing for high-security component handoffs and site testing.
- Conduct routine field inspections and enforce quality-control metrics to verify installations meet infrastructure specifications and security classifications.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers onsite.
- Evaluate design outputs and construction activities for code compliance, quality requirements, configuration management, safety interfaces, security impacts, and applicable engineering procedures.
- Identify technical, schedule, construction, and interface risks; develop resolution paths; and elevate matters requiring management or stakeholder decisions.
- Maintain visibility of engineering deliverables, reviews, approvals, commitments, and critical-path actions supporting construction and major milestones.
- Support commissioning, turnover, closeout, and records completion for a compliant customer transition.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
