Project Engineer, Systems Engineer

Location:

Los Alamos, NM |100% Onsite

Compensation: TBD

Citizenship: U.S. Citizenship Required

Clearance: DOE Q Clearance or ability to obtain one

We are seeking a highly skilled, on-site Senior Project Engineer to lead and accomplish engineering effort, with critical skills in design management and construction support for large-scale infrastructure and security-oriented projects. You will be the technical backbone of 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, and physical security engineers, and you will 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 and electronic security subsystems
• Integrate multidisciplinary design work across civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, fire protection, network, security, and facility system interfaces
• Use Aproove for collaborative online proofing, ensuring security layouts, structures, communications, site work, and associated construction drawings and schematics undergo rigorous review and approval
• Conduct strict constructability reviews targeting high-security requirements, physical barriers, access control layouts, and critical utility pathing
• Lead combined Project Engineer and Field Engineer functions as the accountable engineering point of contact for assigned scope, integrating decisions across the project
• Lead engineering coordination with designers of record, construction subcontractors, facility operations, safety, security, quality, and other stakeholders
• Manage engineering changes and technical resolution, including Field Change Requests, Design Revision Notices, Requests for Information, nonconformance dispositions, design clarifications, and field change evaluations

• Manage technical document control, submittals, and RFIs from the job site using Project Sight as a single, real-time source of truth
• Perform cost engineering and progress tracking in Delta, evaluating subcontractor change orders, managing cost projections, and maintaining commercial compliance
• Provide technical resolution for complex field conflicts, ensuring infrastructure changes 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 quality control through routine field inspections that verify installations meet structural specifications and security classifications
• 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 practical resolution paths, and elevate matters requiring management decisions
• Support commissioning, turnover, closeout, and records completion for a compliant transition of completed work to the customer
• Mentor and guide junior engineers on-site in infrastructure delivery and security compliance