Full-Time
Advisory Engineer
Project Engineer
Posted on 9/11/2026
Deadline 9/17/26
UDR Consulting
No salary listed
No H1B Sponsorship
Aiken, SC, USA
In Person
US Top Secret Clearance Required
Bachelor's, Master's, PhD
Category
 Project & Program Management (1) |
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Required Skills
Quality Assurance (QA)
Requirements
- Typically an advanced degree and experience: a PhD degree with about 15 years of experience, an MS degree with 17 years of experience, or a BS degree with about 21 years of experience.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy Q security clearance; an active clearance is not initially required.
- A BS degree in Engineering or current registration as a Professional Engineer.
- Registered Professional Engineer licensure in any state is strongly preferred.
- Experience with providing overall engineering and design direction, leadership, and management for assigned projects and tasks.
- Experience with integrating engineering resources by establishing design criteria, resource forecasts, schedules, and engineering tools for engineering tasks.
- Experience providing administrative guidance to leads and managers.
- Experience managing the administration, document control, project controls, and quality engineering sections through section supervisors.
- Experience resolving conflicts between project direction and technical direction from functional managers.
- Experience participating in department and site-wide programmatic issue resolution and quality improvements.
- Experience creating teams by requesting, evaluating, and developing engineering expertise capable of achieving assigned project objectives.
- Experience evaluating subcontractor tasks to ensure design output meets technical, cost, and schedule objectives.
- Experience establishing baselines for design activities and engineering work requests.
- Experience recommending subcontractor authorizations for new work and baseline changes to project managers.
- Experience evaluating project cost and schedule variances and implementing corrective actions.
- Experience with earned value management system tools.
- Experience reviewing cost accounts for procurement of engineered materials.
- Experience establishing project scope of work and ensuring firm customer requirements are developed.
Responsibilities
- Initiate technical programs and make recommendations to management based on customer-needs and technology-trend analysis.
- Resolve complex technical problems in areas of expertise and influence solutions in neighboring disciplines.
- Apply technical experience across specialized or multiple technical fields and use internal and external technical resources to resolve complex problems.
- Incorporate complex technical requirements, new or special materials or processes, and difficult coordination or oversight requirements into problem solving and program planning.
- Provide technical leadership in determining solutions to complex problems and influence technical direction across the department.
- Recommend and assist in planning research, development, testing, and quality-assurance programs.
- Prepare plans, schedules, budgets, and personnel requirements for major technical tasks.
- Develop schedules, monitor progress and budget expenditures, and review the quality of completed work.
- Communicate results verbally and in manuscript form.
- Report results regularly and represent SRNS and the Savannah River Site in technical areas to oversight groups and professional societies.
- Mentor less senior professionals in communication skills and technical knowledge.
- Contribute reports, presentations, and participation in national technical organizations to support site missions and goals.
- Demonstrate commitment to Total Quality concepts through leadership of Division and Department Total Quality initiatives.
- Provide staff augmentation support to SRNS.
- Integrate and manage engineering activities for assigned projects by assisting with design criteria, resource forecasts, schedules, and priorities.
- Provide project-management tools and methods to assigned projects and support development of future projects.
- Manage project tasks and deliver results for task cost and schedule.
- Use SRNS processes and procedures to provide engineering services.
- Evaluate project cost and schedule variances and implement corrective actions.
- Work with diverse teams to deliver project results.
Desired Qualifications
- Candidates who have possessed an active Department of Energy L or Q clearance within the past two years are preferred.
- Registered Professional Engineer licensure in any state is strongly preferred.