Structural Engineer, Level IV

Job Summary :

Akima Infrastructure Services, LLC (AIS), is actively seeking Engineering, Professional, Technical, and Administrative personnel as part of our staff augmentation team supporting the Department of Energy at the Y 12 National Security Complex located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and the Pantex Plant located in Amarillo, Texas.

Successful candidates will be employees of AIS, a premier government contractor charged with employing highly motivated and well-qualified personnel who can advance Y-12's core mission to ensure a safe, secure, and reliable .

nuclear deterrent, which is essential to national security. Though employed by AIS, the employee will take day-to-day direction and assignments from Y-12 staff employed directly by the security complex.

Pay, benefits, Human Resources, and Employment Management functions are provided by AIS.

Qualified applicants must be a US citizen, at least 18 years of age, and able to meet pre-employment requirements including any required physicals, drug screen, and / or background investigation to satisfy clearance requirements from the Department of Energy.

Responsibilities

Job Responsibilities :

Responsible for developing high quality detailed design packages, providing engineering procurement and field technical support to implement those designs, and providing expertise for troubleshooting and technical assessments of plant facilities.

Design involves the preparation of conceptual engineering deliverables such as cost-estimating bills of material and man-hour estimates, statements of work, design criteria, and design engineering deliverables.

Candidate must effectively and cooperatively work as a team member of an integrated project team, or as a technical lead for a multi-discipline task and will routinely provide input to system engineers and other plant customers.

This position will require technical expertise and wide application of technical principles, theories and concepts in the field of Structural Engineering.

Candidate will provide self-performed technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems through the application of established engineering practices, codes and standards.

Responsibilities will include, but not be limited to building evaluations and modifications, seismic analyses and rehab, oversight of outside engineering firms, and machine installations.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification :

Bachelor of Science in Civil or Structural Engineering from an Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accredited school.

15 - 20 years of direct experience.

Requires strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interface effectively with various clients, production and support organizations, management, and hourly wage employees.

Must be willing to work in a production environment.

Candidate must be proficient with developing structural drawings (plans, sections and details) for various materials of construction (concrete, steel, masonry, cold-formed steel, timber), structural calculations, equipment anchorage, report preparation, drafting (or oversight of drafting), and preparation of construction specifications (generally in the form of general notes on the drawings).

Must be familiar with consensus design codes. CAD drafting experience not required but preferred, along with any 3D modelling experience.

Structural modelling experience with also preferred.

The candidate must have ability to plan, self-perform and / or direct all engineering design team activities on a project which include, but are not limited to : development of detailed project scope, design time-lines, functions and requirements, design basis and criteria, design schedule and tracking, project engineering budget, calculations, research, design review, inter-discipline design coordination, design approval, design change control, specifications, approval of contractor technical and material submittals and field verification of construction compliance to design.

The ability to obtain a DOE Q clearance is required.

Pre-employment Drug Screen - External applicants selected for this position are required to successfully complete a post-offer, pre-employment drug test.

Medical Exam(s) - Job related pre-placement medical examinations may be required for this position.

This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a clearance from the Department of Energy. If determined as such, this position would be identified as a Workplace Substance Abuse (WSAP) testing designated position.

WSAP positions require participation in an ongoing random drug testing program in addition to the pre-employment drug screen.

Job : Engineering / Design

Travel : None

Organization : AIS - Akima Infrastructure Services

Clearance : Able to Obtain DOE Q

Work Type : On-Site

Remote : No

ReqID : 2024-8118