Advisory Project Engineer

Edgewater Technical Associates

$100K — $130K *
Aiken, SC 29803In-Person
Aerospace & Defense
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Advanced degree (PhD, MS, BS) with 15-21 years of experience in engineering or a related field
  • Demonstrated leadership and management skills in engineering projects
  • Experience in integrating engineering resources and project management tools
  • Ability to provide administrative guidance to project leads and managers
  • Expertise in establishing design criteria, schedules, and resource forecasts

Responsibilities

  • Initiate and recommend technical programs based on customer needs
  • Develop solutions to complex technical problems across multiple fields
  • Lead complex problem-solving efforts and influence departmental technical direction
  • Mentor junior professionals and contribute to knowledge transfer
  • Prepare comprehensive plans for major technical tasks, including budgets and schedules
  • Communicate technical results in reports and presentations
  • Manage project tasks to ensure adherence to cost and schedule requirements

Benefits

  • Mentoring opportunities to shape junior professionals
  • Engagement in high-impact technical programs
  • Recognition within national technical organizations
  • Involvement in cutting-edge research and development
  • Potential for involvement in multi-disciplinary collaborations
Full Job Description
Edgewater Technical Associates is seeking qualified candidates for an Advisory ProjectEngineer opportunity to support the Savannah River Site.

Work Location: Aiken, SC

Application Deadline: 07/08/26 (by Noon ET)

Advisory Project Engineer-

Duties:

  • Initiate own technical programs and make recommendations to management on technical programs based on analysis of customer needs and technology trends, reach solutions to the most complex technical problems in field(s) of expertise and to influence solutions in neighboring disciplines.
  • Apply technical experience in field of specialization or broad-based experience in multiple technical fields and use other technical resources in the company and external resources, to resolve complex problems.
  • Incorporate advanced technical practices and a variety of complex features such as complicated technical requirements, application of new or special materials or processes and difficult coordination or oversight requirements into problem solving and program planning.
  • Provide leadership in determining solutions to complex problems and is recognized as having expertise in a functional area of technical specialization.
  • Recommend research programs for others in group and assist in that planning.
  • Develop solutions to the most complex technical problems in areas of expertise and in adjacent technical fields.
  • Influence technical direction of other parts of the department, acts as a technical communicator across disciplines to optimize the creative solution of technical problems.
  • Conceive needed programs for self and for others in the department.
  • Put needs in perspective with regard to other technical needs at SRNS.
  • Sponsor new ideas in the department.
  • Prepare plans including schedules, budgets and personnel requirements for solving major technical tasks for division.
  • Develop schedules, monitor progress, monitor expenditures of budget and review quality of work performed. Include research, development, testing, quality assurance requirements.
  • Communicate results verbally and in manuscripts form.
  • Report regularly the results and represent SRNS and SRS in technical areas to oversight groups and professional societies.
  • Mentor less senior professionals in communication skills and as a means of transferring technical knowledge and insight.
  • Recommend engineering and technology research, development and application programs for others and assist in the planning of such programs.
  • Maintain excellent technical credibility by contributing significantly toward meeting Site missions and goals which may be demonstrated by issuing reports, making presentations, and/or involvement in national technical organizations.
  • Integrate and manage engineering activities for assigned projects by assisting in establishing design criteria, resource, resource forecasts, schedulers, and priorities.
  • Provide project management tools and methods to assigned projects and support development of future projects.
  • Manage project tasks and deliver results for cost and schedule those tasks.


Education/Yrs. of Experience:

  • 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.


Required Skills/Experience:

  • 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.


Preferred Qualifications:

  • Registered PE licensure in any state.
  • Possessed an active DOE clearance (L or Q) within the past two (2) years.


Other Job Requirements:

  • Must be a U.S. Citizen
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE "Q" security clearance (an active DOE clearance is not initially required to perform assigned duties).


If you are interested in being considered for this position, please follow the application steps via our website: www.edgewatertech.net/careers

Edgewater Technical Associates will not submit your resume without first having detailed discussions with you and obtaining your permission to do so. We look forward to hearing from you!

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