Mechanical Engineer CE-1.1.5

Job Description

Job Description

Overview

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Position Summary

Credence has an immediate opening for a Mechanical Engineer at the journeyman level who will be primarily responsible for supporting the 88th Civil Engineering Group (88CEG) at Wright Patterson AFB, OH.

The 88th Civil Engineering Group (88 CEG) provides the highest quality living and working environment to our customers to support their missions. The 88 CEG is responsible for cradle-to-grave planning, development, and execution of all facility and infrastructure programs for one of the largest Air Force installations in the United States. The 88 CEG provides operations, maintenance, and repair for installation facilities, infrastructure, and grounds; structural and aircraft fire protection; environmental management, housing management, and emergency management; and explosive ordnance disposal in a five-state area.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the duties listed below:

• Perform planning and design work for multi-phase new construction, renovations, and improvement projects for real property facilities, including utility systems, utilizing professional knowledge of mechanical engineering concepts, principles, and practices.
• Prepare, develop, or review design calculations, cost estimates, schedules, underlying analysis, technical drawings, and specifications related to a wide variety of projects and mechanical systems, including plumbing, potable water, sanitary sewer, Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC), fire suppression, control and alarm systems, IICS, and other systems of major size and complexity for multi-story office buildings, large steam plants, hospitals, hangars, flight simulators, and similar structures.
• Provide assistance and technical support in the identification, development, and preparation of Facility Sustainment Restoration and Modernization (FSRM), Non-Appropriated Funds (NAF), customer-funded programs, and Military Construction (MILCON) projects.
• Coordinate with customers and other governmental personnel and agencies, as necessary, to define project requirements and ensure compliance with Federal, State, local, and Air Force regulations.
• Draft Performance Work Statements (PWS), prepare Statements of Work (SOW), draft programming documents (DD 1391s), and develop cost estimates, briefings, and other components of the programming/acquisition package for Government approval and submission.
• Perform independent technical and cost reviews of facility project design submittals, standard design templates, charrette reports, and facility design standards/tools prepared by architect-engineers.
• Perform comprehensive technical compliance verification of all aspects of the design with applicable design criteria, including Air Force and national standards, criteria, and specifications, providing a specific citation as the basis for each finding.
• Perform comprehensive validation of designer cost estimates, citing specific areas with questionable basis, and assess compliance with programming approval documents and applicable program approval thresholds, where applicable.
• Assist in the development of project management tools, including project management plans, Construction Management Documents, and required enterprise business system data entry for assigned projects.
• Assist in the creation of contract document packages required for the award of construction projects, including the project folder, liquidated damages, green procurement, quality assurance plan, nomination form for quality assurance representative, funding documents, and period of performance.
• Assist the Government by providing project management, project oversight, technical advice, and quality assurance services for projects.
• Assist Government personnel in performing Quality Assurance/Quality Check (QA/QC) oversight of project field activities.
• Review project field activities to ensure compliance with Air Force, regulatory, and project-specific procedures and ensure resulting data collected are technically defensible.
• Support site visits, documentation, photographs, daily surveillance logs, and reports of immediate health and safety hazards observed.
• Participate in planning/design charrette activities; review and oversee contractor work in progress; and support quality assurance and quality control efforts.
• Perform comprehensive technical reviews of contract submittals, requests for information, change order requests, and other real-time interactions with design or construction contractors.
• Assist in coordinating and attending project development meetings, contract review meetings, pre-construction meetings, site visits, and other pertinent meetings to coordinate information with installation activities.
• Develop briefings in support of project and meet requirements.

Requirements

• Must have an active or current Secret security clearance verifiable in the Defense Information System for Security (DISS).

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in a related field and at least three (3) years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline being performed, three (3) of which must be in the DoD.
• OR, seven (7) years of directly related experience with proper certifications as described in the PWS labor category performance requirements, five (5) of which must be in the DoD.

Salary Range: $80,000.00 to $95,000.00 annually. Actual compensation will be determined based on the selected candidate's experience, education, skills, and overall qualifications.

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)

• Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Training & Development