Structural Engineer, Level IV Security Clearance

Position: Structural Engineer, Level IV with Security Clearance
Akima Infrastructure Services, LLC (AIS), is actively seeking Engineering, Professional, Technical, and administrative personnel as part of our staff augmentation team supporting the Department of Energy at the Y-12 National Security Complex located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and the Pantex Plant located in Amarillo, Texas. To join our team of outstanding professionals, apply today! Successful candidates will be employees of AIS, a premier government contractor charged with employing highly motivated and well-qualified personnel who can advance Y-12's core mission to ensure a safe, secure, and reliable U.S. nuclear deterrent, which is essential to national security.

Though employed by AIS, the employee will take day-to-day direction and assignments from Y-12 staff employed directly by the security complex. Pay, benefits, Human Resources, and Employment Management functions are provided by AIS. Qualified applicants must be a US citizen, at least 18 years of age, and able to meet pre-employment requirements including any required physicals, drug screen, and/or background investigation to satisfy clearance requirements from the Department of Energy.

Responsibilities
* Develop high quality detailed design packages, provide engineering procurement and field technical support to implement those designs, and provide expertise for troubleshooting and technical assessments of plant facilities.
* Design involves the preparation of conceptual engineering deliverables such as cost-estimating bills of material and man-hour estimates, statements of work, design criteria, and design engineering deliverables.
* Candidate must effectively and cooperatively work as a team member of an integrated project team, or as a technical lead for a multi-discipline task and routinely provide input to system engineers and other plant customers.
* Routinely perform walkdowns in the existing plant facilities to generate design documents and provide field support to craft personnel.

* Provide self-performed technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems through the application of established engineering practices, codes, and standards.
* Responsibilities will include but not be limited to building evaluations and modifications, seismic analyses and rehab, oversight of outside engineering firms, steel and concrete design, and machine installations. Qualifications
* Bachelor's degree in Civil or Structural Engineering from a ABET accredited school with a minimum of 15-20 years experience (with emphasis on Structural Engineering), or MA/MS with 14-18 years of Structural Engineering experience.

* Requires strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability interface effectively with various clients, production and support organizations, management, and hourly wage employees.
* Must be willing to work in a production environment.

* This position will require technical expertise and wide applicating of technical principles, theories, and concepts in the field of Structural Engineering.
* Proficient with developing structural drawings (plans, sections and details) for various materials of construction (steel, concrete, cold-formed steel), structural calculations, equipment anchorage, report preparation, drafting (or oversight of drafting), and preparation of construction specifications (generally in the form of general notes on the drawings).
* Must be familiar with consensus design codes.
* The candidate must have the ability to plan, self-perform, and/or direct all engineering design team activities on a project which include but are not limited to: development of detailed project scope, design time-lines, functions and requirements, design basis and criteria, design scheduled and tracking, project engineering budget, calculations, drawing generation, research, design review, inter-discipline design coordination, design approval, design change control, specifications, approval of contractor technical and material submittals and field verification of construction compliance to design.

* The ability to obtain a DOE Q clearance is required.

Preferred Qualifications:

* Q Clearance preferred.

* An active professional…