Audio Visual; AV Design Specialist - Federal

Audio Visual (AV) Design Specialist - Federal

The Black & Veatch Special Projects Corp. has its mission to provide a full range of services to our primary client base - U.S. Government agencies and departments. With the unique skill sets we have developed during the 100-plus years of service to our U.S. Government agencies client base, we are able to provide one-of-a-kind solutions to complex mission objectives that arise out of specific challenges faced by and unique to these agencies.

Our primary areas of focus are:
Architecture/Engineering (A/E) Services, Defense Program, Design/Build, Classified, and Environmental.

Key Responsibilities:

• Proactively provides guidance and direction on department design guides, standards, systems, applicable engineering codes and BV policies.
• May own the maintaining, updating, and developing engineering standards.
• Provide technical guidance to others regarding projects or disciplines.
• Applies knowledge and ensures compliance with BV quality program.
• Establishes related processes, and promotes a culture that is conducive to quality.
• Supports continuous improvement, change management and risk management efforts.
• Prepares a variety of complex engineering deliverables for multiple or mega projects.
• Performs complex research and develops recommendations for equipment and/or materials selection.
• Oversees collection, assimilation, and management of data for engineering work.
• Prepares complex engineering calculations following standard methods and principles.
• Manages assigned budget, schedule, and quality requirements.
• Develops and applies advanced engineering solutions to complex problems.
• Responsible for ensuring project teams delegate appropriate tasks to lower level team members to develop depth of project execution staff.
• Reviews lower level engineering work or assignments.
• Is responsible for one or more of the following: leading production teams; coordinating multiple discipline activity; and serving as the responsible charge for projects.
• Establishes work plan to be applied to a given project.
• Actively coordinates with all other internal/external team members on complex projects.
• Typically responsible for defining project schedules for single discipline or may have responsibility for multiple disciplines.
• Responsible for determining identification of key client interests and drivers on projects.
• Communicates client interests and drivers to project team members and develops approaches to accommodate these concerns in the performance of the work on complex projects.
• Works to identify future client needs and how to better position BV for the future.
• May offer other services to the client.
• Typically provides support to business development or pursuit activities.
• Serves as the technical specialist in a broad area of specialization, or in a narrow but specialized field.
• Develops and applies advanced engineering concepts and approaches to unique engineering problems.
• Typically supports multiple projects on very complex technical challenges.
• May support a division chief engineer or top engineering management, and is accountable for discipline-specific engineering processes.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of AVIXA, Info Comm, TIA, NEC, NFPA, and applicable federal criteria, standards, codes and best practices related to the design of audio-visual, collaboration, presentation, and conferencing systems
• Strong knowledge of A/V system design from a usability, accessibility, safety, and constructability perspective
• Strong knowledge of conference rooms, training rooms, operations centers, briefing rooms, secure spaces, and other mission-focused A/V environments
• Experience designing displays, projection systems, video walls, conferencing platforms, sound reinforcement, assistive listening, control systems, and signal distribution infrastructure
• Experience developing A/V narratives, one-line diagrams, equipment layouts, rack elevations, control system requirements, and detailed bill of materials
• 8+ years of experience designing applicable audio-visual systems

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering technology or sciences preferred or any other degree, specialized training, or experience,…