Arlington National Cemetery Southern Expansion Senior Project Engineer

What We're Looking For

This role provides a unique opportunity to contribute to a landmark project that honors the nation’s history and its service members. Successful candidates will demonstrate an unwavering commitment to excellence, collaboration, and stewardship of a national treasure.

The Senior Project Engineer will oversee the successful execution of the Arlington National Cemetery Southern Expansion Project, a high-profile and historically significant initiative to expand burial capacity, preserve heritage, and enhance public access. This position requires a combination of leadership, technical expertise, stakeholder management, and strategic planning.

This opportunity entails being responsible for coordination and monitoring of overall field construction administration activities and/or management engineering services on projects of a diverse nature in accordance with design specifications to assure that construction projects are completed in compliance with the drawings and specifications, within budget, and on schedule.

What You'll Do:

• Uses senior-level technical expertise to consider broad range of engineering solutions.
• Responsible for the discipline-specific planning, work distribution, and leadership and adherence to the schedule, and budget on complex or unusual engineering projects.
• Assists in marketing responsibilities, including proposal generation.
• Develops scope of work and level of effort and manages adherence to scope and budget on complex or unusual engineering projects within discipline.
• Oversees completeness and accuracy of project team’s work within the technical discipline.
• Provides technical guidance and mentoring to team members to achieve overall project objectives on complex or unusual engineering projects.
• Coordinates technical aspects of the project with client counterpart and teaming partners at staff level for work within the discipline on complex or unusual engineering projects.
• Leads discipline delivery on larger, multi-disciplinary projects. Works closely with other disciplines on multi-discipline projects.
• Assists with coordination and planning of schedules, hours, and distribution of work for other disciplines on multi-discipline projects on complex or unusual engineering projects
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and 8 years of relevant experience, or
• Master’s degree in Engineering and 7 years of relevant experience, or
• PhD in Engineering and 6 years of relevant experience

What You'll Bring:

Project Leadership:

• Serves as the primary point of accountability for all aspects of the project for the design team, ensuring it is completed to the highest quality standards.
• Leads multidisciplinary teams, including engineers, architects, environmental consultants, and subcontractors.
• Resolves technical field issues, and coordinates with Architects and Engineers for timely and accurate responses to requests for information.

Planning and Coordination:

• Develop and implement comprehensive project plans, including schedules, budgets, and resource allocations.
• Reviews submittals for conformance to plans and specifications. Develops strategies with the contractor to create submittal packages that conform to schedule requirements.
• Provides interpretation and enforcement of contract plans and specifications. Develops strategies with the contractor to create submittal packages that conform to schedule requirements.

Construction Oversight:

• Monitors construction activities to ensure alignment with project designs and specifications.
• Addresses and resolve any issues related to design promptly.
• Oversees project controls.

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Collaborate with Arlington National Cemetery officials, federal agencies, local governments, and community groups to align project goals with stakeholder expectations.
• Communicate progress, challenges, and milestones through regular updates and reporting.

Risk and Compliance Management:

• Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Ensure compliance with environmental protection standards, historic preservation requirements, and sustainability goals.

Team Development:

• Mentor and guide project team members to foster collaboration, innovation, and professional growth.
• May be responsible for the recruitment, hiring, development, and retention of staff, including development of plan for staff reporting, performance and compensation reviews, and succession.
• Partners with Client Service Leaders and pursuit champions to assist wi