Project Engineer 3

United Global Technologies, Inc.; Los Alamos (NM); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

United Global Technologies, Inc. is seeking a highly skilled on-site Senior Project Engineer to lead engineering efforts for large-scale infrastructure and security-oriented projects.

You will be the technical backbone translating complex designs into hardened, high-performing facilities, coordinating with project management, design teams, security engineers, and construction management to deliver on schedule and within budget.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of project engineering experience on commercial infrastructure or high-security facilities.
• Strong design-to-closeout experience in security-sensitive environments.
• Experience coordinating across civil, structural, architectural, mechanical and electrical domains.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate security and infrastructure design interfaces across MEP, structural, network and sub-systems.
• Lead on-site engineering coordination with designers, subcontractors, and facility operations.
• Manage engineering changes and field-change processes (RFI, DDNs, design revisions).
• Provide technical leadership from project definition through turnover and closeout.
• Mentor junior engineers on-site and ensure security compliance throughout delivery.
• Track scheduling milestones and enforce quality control metrics on site.

Skills

Federal construction project

Project engineering

Construction management software

Education

Bachelor's degree in Civil/Mechanical/Electrical Engineering or related

Tools

ProjectSight

Delta

Aproove

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

• Level: Seeking Level 3 or Level 4 candidates
• Project Duration: 2 years, with a possibility of extension
• Work Arrangement: Onsite
• Travel: Some travel required
• Work Schedule: Occasional weekend work may be required

Required Qualifications

• Industry Experience: Commercial, civil, or federal project experience.
• Technical Skills: Experience with construction management software.
• Clearance: Active Q clearance or the ability to obtain one.

Top Skills to Focus On

• Federal construction project experience. (DOE, DOD, Laboratory, Government Nuclear facility, NNSA)
• Project engineering experience.
• Construction management software proficiency.

Position Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled, on-site Senior Project Engineer to lead / accomplish engineering effort. Possess critical skills of design management and construction support for large-scale infrastructure and security-oriented projects. In this role, you will be the technical backbone of our physical security installations and infrastructure deployments, ensuring complex designs are translated flawlessly into hardened, high-performing facilities. Operating strictly on-site, you will serve as the primary technical liaison between project management, multidisciplinary design teams, physical security engineers, and interface with construction management to deliver mission-critical projects on schedule and within budget. The role carries accountability for the full engineering lifecycle of assigned scope-from project definition and design development through construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure & Security Design Management

• 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.

On-Site Construction & Commercial Support

• 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.

Qualifications & Experience

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline / equivalent experience.
• Experience: 10+ years of project engineering experience specifically focused on commercial infrastructure, civil works, or high-security/government-adjacent facilities. Demonstrated experience leading work through design, field execution, turnover, and closeout in a high-consequence, security-sensitive, or nuclear-facility environment is preferred.
• Software Proficiency: 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.
• Work Environment: Willingness and capability to work 100% on-site at our designated project locations.
• Core Competencies: 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.

Security Clearance: Q clearance or ability to obtain the clearance.