Secure Facilities Advisor - Facility Mechanical Engineer
Listed on 2026-09-16
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Engineering
Mechanical Engineer, Building Services Engineer, Systems Engineer
Benefits
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio
Employment TypeFull-Time
ClearanceActive Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility/access required
ProgramNational Space Intelligence Center (NSIC)
FocusSecure Facility / SCIF MILCON Support
Position SummaryCornerstone Signals & Cyber Technologies LLC has significant experience supporting the Intelligence Community and is excited for the opportunity to support the National Space Intelligence Center (NSIC) as it expands its capabilities in support of U.S. Space Force mission requirements.
To support this effort, Cornerstone seeks an experienced Secure Facilities Advisor – Facility Mechanical Engineer at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. The Facility Mechanical Engineer provides engineering and technical advisory support throughout the design, construction, integration, commissioning, and acceptance of highly classified intelligence facilities.
The Facility Mechanical Engineer serves as a technical representative of the NSIC mission customer and coordinates with Government program managers, engineering organizations, architects and engineers (A/E), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) representatives, security personnel, communications and IT specialists, and construction contractors. The engineer ensures facility designs and construction solutions satisfy NSIC operational, engineering, and secure-facility requirements.
This position does not perform construction activities
. The engineer provides Government-facing engineering oversight, requirements analysis, design review, technical coordination, and construction-phase advisory support.
- Review facility designs, specifications, drawings, submittals, and proposed changes for compliance with NSIC mission, engineering, and secure-facility requirements.
- Evaluate mechanical systems supporting classified intelligence facilities, including HVAC, environmental controls, utilities, redundancy, resiliency, and related infrastructure.
- Apply ICD 705 and associated Intelligence Community secure-facility requirements throughout facility design, construction, modification, commissioning, and acceptance.
- Develop and validate facility requirements for SCIFs and other classified spaces.
- Translate operational and intelligence mission needs into actionable facility and engineering requirements.
- Coordinate technical issues among NSIC, Government engineering organizations, USACE, A/E firms, security organizations, and construction contractors.
- Participate in design reviews, construction meetings, technical interchange meetings, site inspections, and project status reviews.
- Evaluate Requests for Information (RFIs), design changes, field conditions, and proposed technical solutions for impacts to mission, engineering, security, and facility requirements.
- Identify engineering, security, schedule, integration, and facility risks and recommend mitigation actions.
- Drive resolution of construction deficiencies and discrepancies that affect mission capability, facility performance, or secure-facility accreditation.
- Coordinate mechanical requirements with electrical, communications, IT, physical security, fire protection, structural, and other facility disciplines.
- Support facility testing, commissioning, turnover, acceptance, accreditation, and transition to operations.
- Develop technical assessments, briefings, decision papers, status reports, and recommendations for Government leadership.
- Maintain traceability between NSIC mission requirements, approved designs, construction changes, and final facility capabilities.
- Verify completed facility systems and infrastructure align with approved requirements and support NSIC operational needs.
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline.
- Demonstrated experience supporting SCIF, SAPF, or other classified/secure facility design, construction, or modernization projects
. - Working knowledge of ICD 705 and associated secure-facility design and construction requirements.
- Experience reviewing engineering drawings, specifications, construction documents, technical submittals, and proposed design changes.
- Experience coordinating technical activities among Government customers, A/E organizations, construction contractors, and engineering stakeholders.
- Strong knowledge of mechanical building systems and their integration within…
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