Sr. Project Engineer

Strategic Management Solutions, LLC (SMSI)provides expert management consulting, program and project management, and technical consulting services to government and private-sector clients. SMSI has built a strong reputation for client-focused performance, delivering innovative solutions and measurable results that help clients achieve their goals, meet critical commitments, and successfully reach key milestones.

SMSI is seeking a full-time Senior Project Engineer to work onsite with our client, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to lead / accomplish engineering efforts. The qualified candidate will possess critical skills of design management and construction support for large-scale infrastructure and security-oriented projects. In this role, you will be the technical backbone of our physical security installations and infrastructure deployments, ensuring complex designs are translated flawlessly into hardened, high-performing facilities.

Operating strictly on-site, you will serve as the primary technical liaison between project management, multidisciplinary design teams, physical security engineers, and interface with construction management to deliver mission-critical projects on schedule and within budget. The role carries accountability for the full engineering lifecycle of assigned scope—from project definition and design development through construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.

• Coordinate security and infrastructure design interfaces, aligning MEP, structural, network architectures, and specialized physical/electronic security sub-systems.
• Utilize Aproove to manage collaborative online proofing, ensuring all security layout, structures, communication, site work and other associated construction drawings, schematics, and design iterations undergo rigorous review and approval.
• Conduct strict constructability reviews targeting high-security requirements, physical barriers, access control layouts, and critical utility pathing.
• Drive efficient engineering solutions that optimize infrastructure longevity and physical security profiles without compromising project budgets or contract compliance.
• Lead combined Project Engineer and Field Engineer functions, serve as the accountable engineering point of contact for assigned scope, maintaining the technical path forward and integrating decisions across the project.
• Integrate multidisciplinary 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 project 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 directly from the job site using Project Sight to maintain a single, real-time source of truth.
• Perform cost engineering and progress tracking via Delta, evaluating subcontractor change orders, managing cost projections, and maintaining strict commercial compliance.
• Provide technical resolution for complex field conflicts, ensuring that changes to infrastructure do not breach security design intent.
• Track critical scheduling milestones using Microsoft Office tools, optimizing sequencing for high-security component handoffs and site testing.
• Enforce comprehensive quality control metrics, conducting routine field inspections…