Project Engineer

VTG is seeking a Project Engineer in Kaneohe, Hawaii to help manage C4ISR installation and modernization at KMCBH, Marine Corps Training Area Bellows (MCTAB), Puuloa Training Facility and Camp H.M. Smith.

This role is contengent upon contract award.

• Perform the following program management and engineering support tasking, as required, to support NIWC PAC and MCBH S6 program and project management teams. Services may be required for one or more phases, to include initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, and closeout.
• Develop and manage operations, and develop and update planning documentation, to include:

a. Program and project management plans,
b. Financial documentation, such as budget estimates, cost estimates, spend plans, financial
reports,
c. Staffing plans,
d. Plans of action, schedules and milestones,
e. Work breakdown structures,

f.  Configuration management and control

g. Risk management plans, risk registers, and risk matrices

h. Quality plans and procedures

• Assist with annual reviews of Program Plans, Processes, and other related Program materials as required.
• Assist KMCBH Facilities with creation, compilation, and editing of Program Monthly Progress Report.
• Assist the ISP (Inside Plant) Manager, OSP (Outside Plant) Manager, Provisioner, and PMs in developing review briefs and artifacts.
• Research and provide answers to project Request For Information (RFI) regarding telecommunications.
• Perform Quality Assurance (QA)/Quality Control (QC) on Outside Plant (OSP) and Inside Plant (ISP) installations.
• Coordinate with Program Management Office (PMO) and Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic (NIWC LANT) on External Security System (ESS) installations for projects.
• Review of design drawings, shop drawings, and as-builts.
• Examine and check engineering drawings for compliance with cited specifications and to ensure necessary items are included in each drawing to support the assigned task
• Work with OSP manager in preparing planning documents for OSP cabling install. Plans shall include site and equipment surveys, budgeting and scheduling plans, special constraints, customer requirements, required regulations and specifications, training plans, contingency plans, safety regulators and other factors cited in this SOW.
• Prepare a work breakdown structure (WBS) and schedule describing effort(s) to be accomplished.
• Gather technical requirements and manage impact on schedule, budget, resources and risk factors from changes in scope and objectives. Develop project plans and control changes for requirement traceability and impact analysis. Develop quality assurance and risk management plans to ensure delivery of quality product and to address technical risk areas. Develop configuration management plan to track changes, releases, and find root cause of problems.
• Conduct site surveys to determine current status of all elements affecting a proposed installation. Prepare survey report which highlights possible problem areas and which makes recommendations to minimize or solve identified problems. Gather all pertinent data to prepare engineering plans.
• Perform market research and make recommendations for product selection, environmental control equipment, power and power distribution equipment, water conditioning and water chilling equipment.
• Perform Research, Development, Test and Engineering (RDT&E) efforts into new areas and prepare feasibility studies that provide sufficient depth analysis of suggested approaches to enable informed decision- makers to make best choices from among alternatives presented. Make recommendations based on the relative merit of each approach studied.
• Review projects and programs, proposed and actual, for safety defects and prepare recommendations for eliminating or reducing identified safety hazards. Immediately communicate any identified hazards to life and limb for positive corrective action.
• Review Base Electronic System Engineering Plans (BESEP).
• Perform engineering analyses of alternate designs with respect to system requirements to optimize performance. Areas to consider shall include physical and functional constraints; environmental requirements; operational parameters; power requirements; system life; procurement lead-time; logistic requirements; initial and life cycle cost. Perform tradeoff analyses and present alternatives.
• Provide on-site technical support to operational staffs at various Commands to evaluate system performance and improvements. This involves an end-to-end system approach from signal generation through various transmission media until the final delivery of the information to the user.
• Prepare time and cost estimates for specified phases of a program. Estimates to include items such as site survey, tradeoff studies, engineering, travel, acquisition site preparation, equipment refurbishment, staging, documentation, materials, fabrication, transportation, packing/unpacking, handling, management, coordinating integration, checkout, acceptance demonstrations, as-built plans, certification, reliability and maintainability, configuration management, and systems effectiveness programs.
• Conduct technical reviews of engineering and installation documentation to include IDPs, IRDs, As Builds, System and Platform SOVTs, Site Survey Reports, and BESEPs. Track required changes and make necessary corrections.
• Coordinate as appropriate with cognizant Facilities personnel, for all issues affecting use of space within a facility, utility system connections, power requirements, design plans and specifications and permits and approvals.
• Prepare documentation that is consistent in format, organization, and content, and comply with all applicable governing instructions and policies, including the SIPH and program management plan.

• Must possess a final/active SECRET clearance at the time of award.
• Three (3) years’ experience with US DoD, C4I systems architecture, installation, integration,
  and testing.
• Three (3) years’ experience with Shore Modernization process stakeholders and
  organizational relationships.
• Three (3) years’ experience with reviewing and developing, technical correspondence, reports,
  documents, MILCON drawings, IDP, Base Electronic Systems Engineering Plans (BESEP)
  and/or analyses.
• Three (3) years’ experience to generate, edit, review, proof, and distribute technical
  documentation (IDP, BESEP).
• Three (3) years’ experience with reviewing and developing technical correspondence, reports,
  documents, drawings, and/or analyses.
• Three (3) years’ experience with creating new or modify existing documents, processes,
  workflows, System Operational Verification Test (SOVT) and Standard Operating Procedures
  (SOPs) to meet Program requirements and process improvement initiatives.
• Three (3) years’ experience supporting peer review meetings, collect input from participants,
  and incorporate the changes to program documents such as design documentation, white
  papers, engineering analysis, technical research papers, and performance charts, as required.
• One (1) years’ experience supporting project management teams.
• One (1) years’ experience with MS Office Products and other software such as Excel, Project,
  PowerPoint, Adobe Pro.

This is a Military Friendly job opportunity

Pay Range: VTG’s estimated starting pay range is $90,000-115,000, which is a general guideline for the geographic location. When extending an offer, VTG also considers work experience, education, skill level, market considerations and may possibly include contractual requirements which may cause an offer to fall outside of this range.