Project Engineer II

Amentum is a global leader in advanced engineering and innovative solutions, supporting critical missions across defense, intelligence, energy, and civilian sectors. Our people are our competitive advantage, driven by purpose, collaboration, and a commitment to delivering excellence for our customers and communities. We are currently seeking an Engineering Project Manager to support our Nuclear Projects.

We are seeking an experienced, collaborative project engineering professional who excels at keeping teams aligned, stakeholders engaged, and projects delivered on schedule and within budget.

Based in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, this role will provide design management support for large-scale, complex projects for a diverse portfolio of clients that includes the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), and commercial nuclear companies. The successful candidate will provide leadership across capital projects involving nuclear infrastructure, advanced reactor deployment, fuel cycle facilities, and mission‑critical national security programs while ensuring the highest standards of safety, quality, regulatory compliance, and financial performance.

This is an opportunity to play a key role in delivering projects that strengthen America's nuclear security mission, support the deployment of next‑generation nuclear technologies, and expand the nation's commercial nuclear capabilities.

Amentum Nuclear Projects is a Tier 1 services provider supporting the U.S. Department of Energy’s, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), and leading commercial nuclear companies. We deliver safe, innovative, and mission‑focused solutions at some of the nation’s most complex nuclear security, production, and advanced nuclear technology facilities.

• Program and project management
• NNSA capital line-item projects
• Nuclear facility modernization and construction management
• Nuclear material and fuel cycle design
• Technical consulting and owner's engineering
• Engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) projects
• Engineering and project delivery for advanced reactor programs, including Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) and advanced reactor technologies
• Engineering support for commercial nuclear fuel fabrication facilities
• Engineering and project execution for nuclear fuel reprocessing and related fuel cycle infrastructure

The purpose of this position is to assist project managers in the execution of large nuclear projects. This role has the overall objective of managing and/or coordinating project activities that are in compliance with the contract and ensure the safety, quality, value, and timeliness of project to which you will be assigned. You will be assigned responsibilities on a large‑size project, multiple medium‑size projects or complex segment of a larger project, in compliance with the project needs and directions provided by the Project Manager or the Director of Engineering.

Perform essential project engineering functions involving monitoring of progress, documentation of communications and meetings, and identification/evaluation of project issues and problems.

• Collaborate in management and coordination of activities among all project functions and engineering disciplines in accordance with the established project baseline documents
• Review project staffing requirements and coordinate staffing with supporting functional organization managers and/or subcontractors
• Support creation and coordination of overall project plans and schedules, and monitoring activities, progress, and milestones against the plans
• Support creation and coordination of project effort hours, and cost estimates and budgets, and monitor progress and cost performance against these
• Support coordination between design, procurement, material management and construction on technical and schedule requirements
• Assist the Project Manager in developing the required documentation to communicate (client/internal) project contractual and technical issues, status and progress reports; conduct/coordinate related meeting as necessary
• Other duties as assigned

• Bachelor’s degree
• 7 years of…