Pay RangeUSD $180,000.00 - USD $190,000.00 /Yr.
OverviewOmega Technical Services is seeking a highly motivated Project Engineer 3 to support ongoing operations in Los Alamos, NM.
Supervises the engineering activity (all disciplines) on a project, or designated portions of a project, for a global business unit. Plans and directs engineering assignments on the project. Demonstrates technical responsibilities for interpreting, organizing, executing, and coordinating these assignments.
ResponsibilitiesDuties:- Coordinate security and infrastructure design interfaces, aligning MEP, structural, network architectures, and specialized physical/electronic security sub-systems.
- Utilize Aproove to manage collaborative online proofing, ensuring all security layout, structures, communication, site work and other associated construction drawings, schematics, and design iterations undergo rigorous review and approval.
- Conduct strict constructability reviews targeting high-security requirements, physical barriers, access control layouts, and critical utility pathing.
- Drive efficient engineering solutions that optimize infrastructure longevity and physical security profiles without compromising project budgets or contract compliance.
- Lead combined Project Engineer and Field Engineer functions, Serve as the accountable engineering point of contact for assigned scope, maintaining the technical path forward and integrating decisions across the project.
- Integrate multidisciplinary design work across civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, fire protection, network, security, and facility-system interfaces.
- Lead engineering coordination with designers of record, construction subcontractors, facility operations, safety, security, quality, and other project stakeholders.
- Manage engineering changes and technical-resolution processes, including Field Change Requests, Design Revision Notices, Requests for Information, nonconformance dispositions, design clarifications, constructability reviews, and field-change evaluations.
- Manage technical document control, submittals, and RFIs directly from the job site using ProjectSight to maintain a single, real-time source of truth.
- Perform cost engineering and progress tracking via Delta, evaluating subcontractor change orders, managing cost projections, and maintaining strict commercial compliance.
- Provide technical resolution for complex field conflicts, ensuring that changes to infrastructure do not breach security design intent.
- Track critical scheduling milestones using Microsoft Office tools, optimizing sequencing for high-security component handoffs and site testing.
- Enforce comprehensive quality control metrics, conducting routine field inspections to verify that installations meet infrastructure structural specs and security classifications.
- Mentor and provide guidance to junior engineers on-site, fostering technical mastery in infrastructure delivery and security compliance.
- Evaluate design outputs and construction activities for code compliance, quality requirements, configuration management, safety interfaces, security impacts, and applicable engineering procedures.
- Identify technical, schedule, construction, and interface risks; develop practical resolution paths; and elevate matters requiring management or stakeholder decisions.
- Maintain project-level visibility of engineering deliverables, reviews, approvals, commitments, and critical-path actions supporting construction execution and major milestones.
- Support commissioning, turnover, closeout, and records completion to achieve a compliant transition of completed work to the customer.
Education Requirements- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline / equivalent experience.
Qualifications- Candidate must be a U.S. Citizen.
- Satisfactory results of a pre-employment screening, which includes a drug and breath alcohol test, along with a Motor Vehicle Record check.
- Candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Security Clearance.
- 10+ years of project engineering experience specifically focused on commercial infrastructure, civil works, or high-security/government-adjacent facilities.
- Hands-on, proficient experience with ProjectSight or equivalent (project management), Delta (cost/financial tracking), Aproove or equivalent (proofing/design review), and the Microsoft Office Suite.
- Exceptional attention to detail regarding physical layout compliance, strict document control, and clear communication under tight project deadlines.
- Proven ability to make sound technical decisions; coordinate diverse stakeholders; manage technical risk; and communicate clear, timely engineering direction.
Preferred Qualifications- Possession of an active DOE/DoD clearance within the past two (2) years is preferred.
- Previous DOE/NNSA work experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading work through design, field execution, turnover, and closeout in a high-consequence, security-sensitive, or nuclear-facility environment.
Work ScheduleShift will be dependent upon customer site discretion.
Omega Technical Services is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business and a trusted partner to the Department of Energy, Department of Defense, and other commercial clients, supporting mission-critical projects that shape national security and technological innovation. Our culture is defined by leadership, initiative, and trust. Our values drive meaningful outcomes and long-term impact.
At Omega Technical Services, you'll work alongside elite subject matter experts who thrive on being challenged, innovation, and collaboration. We offer competitive pay, comprehensive benefits including medical, dental and vision insurance; short and long term disability insurance; 401(k) with a company match; AD&D insurance, paid time off, and holiday pay. *Based on eligibility requirements.
When you join Omega Technical Services, you're not just starting a job, you're building a career that honors the past, powers today's progress, and accelerates the most vital missions of tomorrow.
