Position: Advisory Engineer/Project Engineer

Work Location On-site – SC

Start date: ASAP

Duration: 7-11 months

Hours: 40 hours per week

Per Diem: GSA $157.00/day

US Citizen: Required

Mob/Demob: $500.00/each way ($1,000 total)

Advisory Engineer/Project Engineer

Position Details/Scope of Work / Responsibilities:

Candidate must demonstrate a minimum of 12 years design experience in the nuclear or process chemical industry. Candidate must demonstrate a minimum of 5 years of experience working in a nuclear industry/facility. Candidate must have experience with the following:

• Providing overall engineering and design direction, leadership, and management for assigned projects and tasks.

• Integrating engineering resources for assigned projects by assisting in establishing design criteria, resource forecasts, schedules, and engineering tools for engineering tasks.

• Providing administrative guidance to leads and managers.

• Responsibilities for overall management, scheduling, and priority of the tasks and projects assigned.

• Managing the administration, document control, project controls, and quality engineering sections for all assigned projects through section supervisors.

• Resolving conflicts between project direction and technical direction from the functional managers.

• Participating in department and site-wide programmatic issues resolution and quality improvements.

• Responsibilities for creating a team through requesting, evaluating, and developing engineering expertise capable of achieving the objectives of the projects assigned.

• Evaluating tasks of subcontractors to ensure design output meets project technical, cost, and schedule objectives.

• Establishing baselines for design activities for all assigned projects and engineering work requests.

• Recommending, to project managers, subcontractor authorizations for new work and changes to baselines.

• Evaluating project cost and schedule variances and implement corrective actions.

• EVMS tools.

• Reviewing cost accounts for procurement of engineered materials.

• Working with diverse teams to deliver results.

• Establishing projects' scope of work including assuring that there are firm customer requirements developed.

Requirements:

• Typically, an advance degree and experience - PhD degree and about 15 years’ experience, MS degree and 17 years’ experience, BS degree and about 21 years’ experience.

• Position Specific: BS Degree in Engineering or current registration as a Professional Engineer

• Candidate must be able to perform field walk-downs of the job site for the engineering work being performed. These walk-downs may involve construction sites with uneven surfaces and work in progress, walking for distances over a half mile, climbing ladders to access remote areas, dressing out in protective clothing and environments where a respirator is required.

• Candidate must have the ability to produce quality documents with attention to detail and meeting management defined expectations.

• Candidate must have the ability to coordinate, interface, and communicate with management, engineering, facility, operations, quality assurance, and test personnel.

• Candidate must have the ability to communicate clear, concise, and accurate reports, evaluations, documents, procedures, reviews, comment resolutions, email, and oral presentations.

• Candidate must have the ability to mentor junior team members and develop their design knowledge.

• Candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a DOE “Q” security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Candidates who have possessed an active DOE clearance (L or Q) within the past two (2) years are preferred.

• It is preferred the candidate demonstrate a minimum of 5 years of experience working at one or more DOE facilities.

• Previous SRS Design Engineering experience and working knowledge of SRNS design processes and procedures are preferred.