Sr. Project Engineer

Strategic Management Solutions, LLC (SMSI) provides expert management consulting, program and project management, and technical consulting services to government and private-sector clients. SMSI has built a strong reputation for client-focused performance, delivering innovative solutions and measurable results that help clients achieve their goals, meet critical commitments, and successfully reach key milestones.

Job Summary

SMSI is seeking a full-time Senior Project Engineer to work onsite with our client, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to lead / accomplish engineering efforts. The qualified candidate will 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.

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 Project Sight 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. Required Skills/ Abilities 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. Hands-on, proficient experience with Project Sight or equivalent (project management), Delta (cost/financial tracking), Aproove or equivalent (proofing/design review), and Microsoft Office Suite.

Willingness and capability to work 100% on-site at LANL’s designated project locations. 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.

Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q clearance is required. US citizenship is required. An active Real-ID driver’s license is required.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline; or, an equivalent combination of education and experience directly related to the occupation. Equal Opportunity Employer Strategic Management Solutions, LLC (SMSI) is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.