Engineer 2/3
Electrical Engineer 2/3 – Plutonium Rapid Response Team
COMPA Industries is searching for qualified candidates for Electrical Engineer 2 and Electrical Engineer 3 positions supporting Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in Los Alamos, NM.
Salary: $65/hr – $85/hr, depending on experience
Location: 100% Onsite – Los Alamos, NM
Citizenship: U.S. Citizenship Required
Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q Clearance
Work Schedule: 4/10s, day shift; schedules may include Monday–Thursday, Thursday–Sunday, or Friday–Monday
Assignment Duration: 1 year, with possible extension up to 3 years
Extension/Conversion: Yes, conversion is possible
Positions Available: 1 Engineer 2 and 1 Engineer 3
Start Date: ASAP
Travel: No travel expected
Per Diem/Relocation: Per diem available; no relocation
Remote/Hybrid: No – 100% onsite
Mandatory Experience Requirement – Read Before Applying
- Applicants must have a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET-accredited institution and direct electrical design engineering experience supporting facility design, operations, maintenance, construction, or project engineering activities.
- Candidates must be able to produce, review, and interpret electrical design documentation and construction documents in a field-facing engineering environment.
- Candidates without the following experience will not be considered:
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET-accredited institution
- U.S. Citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q Clearance
- Ability to work 100% onsite in Los Alamos, NM
- Electrical design experience related to facility power systems
- Experience producing and interpreting electrical construction documents, drawings, and specifications
- Ability to support field/construction questions, field changes, and design interpretation
Impact
- Electrical Engineers supporting the Plutonium Rapid Response Team provide design engineering support for facility design, operations, maintenance, construction, and field execution activities. This role directly supports TA-55 and related plutonium facility mission areas by ensuring electrical designs, construction documents, and field engineering solutions are safe, technically accurate, constructible, and aligned with LANL and DOE/NNSA requirements.
- The selected engineers will support rapid-response design needs, review LAP-4 and internal designs, evaluate requested field or personnel changes, and help resolve field issues impacting construction, maintenance, and facility operations.
Responsibilities
- Perform electrical engineering design, analysis, calculations, and design reviews.
- Develop, review, interpret, and support electrical engineering design packages.
- Produce and review construction documents, drawings, specifications, calculations, markups, and technical deliverables.
- Support facility design, operations, maintenance, construction, modifications, and project execution.
- Review LAP-4 designs and internal design packages.
- Support field engineering questions, construction documentation, design interpretation, and field issue mitigation.
- Provide engineering input for low-voltage facility power systems, including common 120V, 208V, and below-480V applications.
- Support conductor sizing, conduit sizing, junction box layouts, electrical routing, equipment installation, and construction-ready design documentation.
- Coordinate across engineering, construction, operations, maintenance, work control, project management, and facility organizations.
- Apply applicable electrical engineering codes, standards, procedures, and DOE/NNSA requirements.
- Use engineering technology, drafting tools, and markup software to support design development and review.
- Work independently and collaboratively as part of a multi-discipline engineering team.
- Continuously improve engineering work processes to meet customer and mission needs.
- For Engineer 3 candidates, provide technical direction, support junior personnel, lead assigned activities, and coordinate more complex engineering deliverables.
Minimum Qualifications
Engineer 2:
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET-accredited college or university.
- Minimum 3 years of relevant electrical engineering experience.
- Strong experience producing, reviewing, and interpreting electrical design documents.
- Experience supporting construction documents, specifications, and field-facing design support.
Engineer 3:
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET-accredited college or university.
- Strong electrical engineering experience, ideally 6+ years of relevant experience.
- Advanced ability to produce, review, and interpret electrical construction documents, drawings, specifications, and design packages.
- Ability to support more complex design, field engineering, construction, and interdisciplinary coordination activities.
Minimum Qualifications for Both Levels:
- Working knowledge of industry, regulatory, and DOE/NNSA codes, standards, and criteria relevant to electrical engineering.
- Knowledge of commonly applied codes and standards at DOE and DOD facilities, including NQA-1, IBC, NFPA, and NEC.
- Prior experience facilitating, developing, reviewing, or supporting engineering design packages.
- Familiarity with typical engineering deliverables, including construction documents.
- Experience with computer-aided design/drafting software or markup tools.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively as part of a multi-discipline technical team.
- Ability to access plant/facility areas and walk around field locations as needed.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q Clearance.
- Ability to obtain required LANL access, including green strap and A-Level access.
- U.S. Citizenship required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting DOE, NNSA, DOD, LANL, nuclear, high-hazard, or mission-critical facilities.
- Previous experience supporting TA-55, plutonium facilities, RLUOB, or related nuclear facility environments.
- Experience with facility electrical design, low-voltage power distribution, 120V/208V systems, below-480V applications, panels, feeders, conductors, conduit, junction boxes, grounding, lighting, controls, instrumentation, one-lines, schematics, and equipment installation support.
- Experience creating construction documents and technical specifications.
- Experience reading and interpreting existing facility drawings and internal design packages.
- Experience mitigating field issues and supporting construction or maintenance execution.
- Experience supporting operations, maintenance, facility modifications, or rapid-response engineering requests.
- Experience with AutoCAD, Revit, Bluebeam, BIM, or other design/markup tools.
- Control system experience is useful but not required.
- Familiarity with LANL engineering processes, procedures, standards, and guides.
- Knowledge of DOE Order 426.2 or nuclear facility personnel qualification requirements.
- Current EIT or PE registration is a plus.
Core Skills
- Electrical design engineering
- Low-voltage facility power design
- 120V, 208V, and below-480V electrical systems
- Conductor sizing
- Conduit sizing
- Junction box design/layout
- Construction document development
- Electrical drawing and specification review
- Design package development and interpretation
- Field engineering support
- Construction support and field issue mitigation
- Electrical calculations and analysis
- NFPA and NEC application
- NQA-1 awareness
- DOE/NNSA code and standards compliance
- Multi-discipline coordination