Engineer/Architect with Security Clearance

Overview Position title: Engineer/Architect. Location: Virginia Beach, VA. Clearance required: Secret. Responsibilities Investigate, analyze, and determine requirements and design considerations. Prepare design criteria, detailed designs, specifications, cost estimates, and operating instructions. Serve as an expert consultant-advisor for planning, design, and construction of all NSW facilities. Provide recommendations to the government supervisor on project planning, programming, budgeting, and scheduling, and perform technical advisory responsibilities required to meet design, budget, and construction timelines. Analyze, coordinate, implement, and track execution of NSW design and construction projects. Review command facility functions (structures, utilities, and land use) involving conceptual phase, initial design, construction, alteration, modification, anti-terrorism and force protection, secure annexes, and security, while monitoring from start to finish. Conduct and/or coordinate project site investigations to determine feasibility of proposed projects. Review designs and other technical construction project data such as cost estimates and value engineering reports to support timely execution of projects. Review and evaluate architectural and engineering designs/plans/drawings/specifications prepared by others to ensure incorporation of requirements. Analyze cost estimates and develop deficiency correction plans. Review, evaluate, and manage architectural and engineering contracts for maintenance, repair, renovation, and new construction contracts. Participate in and review documents from planning studies, including MILCON Advanced Planning efforts. Act as an expert consultant and occasionally serve as a command representative in conferences/engineer meetings with outside agencies to ensure the scope of work is met. In conjunction with execution agents, formulate project/program development, implement, and perform technical advisory responsibilities required to meet planning, budget, and construction timelines. Track project status, determine recommendations for authorization of project design/construction award, design/construction level, and funding requirements to be transferred to the execution agent for architectural and engineering contract awards. Under government supervision guidance, consult with construction agents for bid extensions and formulate plans to gain additional funding for underfunded projects and to gain approvals. Resolve construction issues, develop feasible alternatives, make recommendations, and coordinate technical issues with execution agents, major command engineers, construction agents, and project managers. Qualifications Possess a bachelor’s degree, preferably in engineering or architecture. An advanced degree and/or professional certification (Professional Engineer-PE or Registered Architect-RA) is highly desirable. At least 8 years of experience in engineering or architecture; experience delivering technical facility design and construction projects is highly desirable. At least 4 years of experience utilizing Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) standards, codes, and practices related to engineering and architecture is highly desirable. At least 4 years of experience with facilities acquisition, project funding authority levels and sources, contract requirements, contract documents, proposal and bidding procedures, and use of contracts as used in shore facilities design, construction, environmental compliance, planning, and real estate to support procurement on design and construction contracts. #J-18808-Ljbffr