Mission-Critical Secure Facilities Design Lead (Remote)

AECOM; Cleveland (OH); Remote; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

AECOM is seeking an experienced Secure Facilities Technical Design lead to support a national Mission Critical and Secure Facilities practice. You will provide technical leadership for designing secure and classified facilities for federal clients, translating security criteria into architectural and engineering solutions across CONUS and OCONUS locations.

The role requires interpreting ICD 705, TEMPEST, RF mitigation, and coordinating with multidisciplinary teams while ensuring constructible

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture or a related building design or technical discipline and 10+ years including two years of leadership, of professional experience, including significant experience with federal secure, classified, or mission-critical facilities or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.
• Professional registration appropriate to the candidate's discipline, such as Registered Architect (RA), or comparable professional credential.
• Ability to pass drug, and background checks to work on Federal grounds, military installations, and school grounds.
• This position requires U.S. citizenship due to federal contract/security requirements.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical lead for secure facility design and execution, interpreting and applying ICD 705, SCIF, SAPF, OSS, TEMPEST, and related physical and technical security criteria.
• Translate security requirements into coordinated design criteria, construction documents, specifications, technical details, and constructible solutions.
• Lead multidisciplinary coordination with architects, engineers, technology and security specialists, contractors, and government stakeholders, including SSMs, SSOs, CTTAs, and Accrediting Officials.
• Develop and review technical solutions for secure perimeter construction, doors and openings, penetrations, acoustic protection, access control, intrusion detection, and other physical security requirements.
• Coordinate TEMPEST and RF mitigation strategies, including RF shielding, non-conductive breaks, waveguide-below-cutoff penetrations, power and signal filtering, grounding/bonding, and related countermeasures.
• Conduct existing-condition surveys, facility assessments, and feasibility studies for new construction, renovation, conversion, and upgrade of secure environments.
• Perform technical design, interdisciplinary coordination, quality-control, and constructability reviews to ensure security requirements are appropriately incorporated into project documentation.
• Provide technical support during construction, including review of submittals, RFIs, shop drawings, field conditions, inspections, testing, and resolution of security-related issues, and support accreditation/certification and project closeout as applicable.
• Support development and implementation of secure facility standards, specifications, details, tools, and best practices, while maintaining awareness of evolving government security criteria.
• Support proposal development, technical approaches, scopes of work, and strategic growth opportunities for the Mission Critical and Secure Facilities practice.

Skills

Leadership

Technical coordination

Security standards understanding

Communication skills

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Architecture or related building design/technical discipline

Tools

Autodesk Revit

Job description

AECOM is seeking an experienced Secure Facilities Technical Design lead to support a national Mission Critical and Secure Facilities practice. You will provide technical leadership for designing secure and classified facilities for federal clients, translating security criteria into architectural and engineering solutions across CONUS and OCONUS locations.

The role requires interpreting ICD 705, TEMPEST, RF mitigation, and coordinating with multidisciplinary teams while ensuring constructible