Project Engineer 3/4 (4028)

Navarro Research and Engineering is recruiting a Project Engineer 3/4 in Los Alamos, NM.

Navarro is an award-winning provider of turnkey solutions, delivering comprehensive nuclear, environmental and technical services to federal agencies, commercial enterprises and private clients across the United States. Our expertise supports organizations such as the Department of Energy, the National Nuclear Security Administration, the Department of Defense and NASA, while also extending to commercial industries and private sector partners facing complex engineering, technical and environmental challenges.

Navarro specializes in nuclear operations, environmental remediation, D&D, waste management, advanced energy, facilities management and technical and professional services. For more information, please visit Navarro-inc.com.

We are seeking a highly skilled, on-site Project Engineer 3/4 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline, and 10+ years of project engineering experience specifically focused on commercial infrastructure, civil works, or high-security/government-adjacent facilities, or an equivalent combination of education and experience directly related to the occupation.
• 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.
• Willingness and capability to work 100% on-site at our designated project locations.
• This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q Clearance.
• 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.
• Demonstrated experience leading work through design, field execution, turnover, and closeout in a high-consequence, security-sensitive, or nuclear-facility environment is preferred.
• Due to the nature of the government contract requirements and/or clearances requirements, US citizenship is required.
• Navarro is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, religion, color, national origin, age, disability, veteran’s status, or any classification protected by applicable state or local law.
• EEO Employer/Vet/Disabled