Physical & Electronic Security Engineer

Date: May 13, 2025

Location:

US

Company: Black & Veatch Family of Companies

We believe real value is powered by the unique skills and experiences of our professionals. The interchange of ideas from a diverse group of people gives our teams an expanded perspective and the ability to find better solutions for our clients.

Company : Black & Veatch Corporation

Req Id : 108894

Job Title : Physical & Electronic Security Engineer

Location : USHYBRID

Business Unit Sector : COR-BVOPS-ENGR & DEV SVCS

Department: BVCOR BV OPS EDS INSTR & CONTR

Opportunity Type : Staff

Relocation eligible : No

Full time/Part time : Full-Time

Project Only Hire : No

Visa Sponsorship Available: No

Recruiter: Joe Ruback

Why Black and Veatch

Black & Veatch allows you to lend your talent and perspective to humanity’s biggest challenges in a flexible environment where you are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities. We offer competitive compensation; 401K match and benefits that start day 1.

Our hybrid environment allows you to balance your work and personal life. At Black & Veatch, you own your career with purpose and meaning. You are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities at every step of your career journey. Bring your big ideas knowing you are safe to be who you are and speak up with concerns or questions and put your diverse talents and perspectives to use. #LI-JR4

The Opportunity

The role you will have the opportunity to...

• Analyze impacts and exposures based on emerging security threats, vulnerabilities, and risks.

• Collaborate and work with individuals from various geographies and disciplines within Black & Veatch.

Other opportunities may include:

Matrix Management

• Transferknowledge, capabilities, and skills to improve others’ knowledge and skill levels.

• Contribute to the career development of others through engagement assignments.

• Delegate work duties according to development opportunities and individual needs

Consulting and Planning

• Facilitate client workshops to foster technical understanding and drive decisions.

• Lead physical and electronic security assessments and gap analysis against best practices and standards.

• Recommend physical and electronic security improvements aligned with risk management frameworks.

• Develop security policies, procedures, and controls for critical infrastructure sectors.

• Collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze and validate the information needs and functional requirements.

• Serve as a subject matter expert.

Design

• Lead physical and electronic security system designs.

• Develop and review design documents including drawings and specifications.

• Manage deliverables, quality, and budget.

• Interpretation of building-design drawings to determine the consistency of contractual security requirements.

• Follow engineering and customer standards for design documentation.

• Provide technical leadership for site-survey, deployment, installation and configurationand support engineering teams.

Business Development

• Support proposals and business development activities with Physical and ElectronicSecurity scopes.

• Develop and lead client presentations.

• Collaborate with stakeholders across different business solutions engineering disciplines, and business enablement functions

The Team

Black & Veatch’s Governments & Communities focuses on specific infrastructure needs of municipalities, state and local governments, and specialized physical and digital infrastructure solutions for government and federal agencies. By joining our market sector, you will be able to provide Physical and/or Electronic Security consulting, planning, and design services with a focus on critical infrastructure sectors (Power, Federal/DoD, Water, Oil & Gas, Chemical, etc.).

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Standards:

• Proactively provides guidance and direction on department design guides, standards, systems, applicable engineering codes and Black and Veatch policies

• Assists in developing, maintaining and updating engineering standards

• Provides technical guidance to others regarding projects and disciplines

Quality/Continuous Improvement:

• Independently applies knowledge and ensures compliance with Black and Veatch quality program

• Establishes related processes, and promotes a culture that is conducive to quality

• Provides guidance and direction to others

• Supports continuous improvement and change management efforts

Engineering Production:

• Prepares a variety of complex engineering deliverables for multiple or mega projects

• Performs complex research and develops recommendations for equipment and/or materials selection

• Oversees collection, assimilation, and management of data for engineering work

• Prepares complex engineering calculations following standard methods and principles

• Manages assigned budget, schedule, and quality requirements

• Develops and applies advanced engineering solutions to complex problems

• Reviews lower level engineering work or assignments Is responsible for one or more of the following: leading production teams; coordinating multiple discipline activity; and serving as the responsible charge for projects

• Establishes work plan to be applied to a given project

Project Coordination:

• Actively coordinates with all other internal/external team members on complex projects

• Typically responsible for defining project schedules for single discipline or may have responsibility for multiple disciplines

Client Focus:

• Responsible for determining identification of key client interests and drivers on projects

• Communicates client interests and drivers to project team members and develops approaches to accommodate these concerns in the performance of the work on moderately complex projects

• Focuses on client's current needs and situations

• May offer other services to the client

• Typically provides support to business development or pursuit activities

Knowledge Sharing, Innovation and Technology:

• Serves as a technical specialist and has knowledge and skill set to provide consultation and guidance to project teams in a particular practice area

• Typically supports multiple projects on the very complex technical challenges

• Actively advances knowledge management of the enterprise and provides mentoring

• As a subject matter expert, has additional expertise in a technical area, participates in professional societies by presenting papers, participates on technical committees, and assists with code/standard authoring

• Is externally recognized in industry as an expert which enhances the Company brand

People Management - (supervision, career development, training, mentoring):

• Typically oversees performance management, career planning, recognition, learning and development, and corrective actions

Resource Management - (budgets, tools, processes, project support):

• Implements resource management strategy

• Manages engineering resources for small groups of a single discipline

• Resolves resource conflicts and identifies training needs

Administrative:

• Administrative responsibilities may include office administration

• Ensures policies, procedures, and processes are effectively implemented and communicated for workgroup

• Ensures adherence to corporate and division programs

• May approve timesheets and expense reports

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of physical and electronic security standards and others as required by our clients.

• Experiencein physical security design of cameras, access control systems, video surveillance/CCTV, threat detection and motion detectors in various facility applications.

• Experience performing facility walk downs in support of design requirements definition and detailed engineering of design modifications.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience working critical infrastructure sectors (Water, Power, Federal/DoD, Oil & Gas, Chemical, etc.)

• Familiarity with Unified Facilities Guide Specifications (UFGS) and Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC) a plus.

• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field such as Engineering,Computer Science, Computer/Electrical/Communications, or other related field.

• Professional Engineering (PE) License or the ability to obtain.

• Experience in MS Word / Excel / Bluebeam for project documentation.

This position supports Black & Veatch project work with the U.S. Federal Government. As a result, U.S. citizenship is a requirement.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering from either a recognized accredited program in their home country or the country in which the professional is practicing

• Minimum of 11 years related work experience

• All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.

Certifications

• Professional Certification such as Certified Protection Professional (CPP), Physical Security Professional (PSP), or similar certifications.

• Professional Engineering license in electrical, control systems or related field or ability to obtain PE Licensure within six months.

Work Environment/Physical Demands

This position would require working in a typical office environment. The position may entail prolonged periods of sitting and computer use, and the professional would ideally be able to maintain focus and attention to detail throughout the workday. The position may also require physical tasks during site visits, including crouching, grasping, and standing/walking for extended periods of time.

Black & Veatch prides itself on the support of our employees and providing flexibility to make the things that are most important to you, a priority.This is why we offer our professionals, located near an office, the option of a Hybrid work environment. Our hybrid work approach allows our employees to work two days a week from other locations outside of the office. Additionally, this opportunity has the possibility of being located in any of our offices located across the U.S; click the link to see a full list of.

This role may require up to 20% travel

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Salary Plan

ENG: Engineering

Job Grade

132

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A variety of additional benefits are available to our professionals, including a company matched 401k plan, adoption reimbursement, vendor discounts, an employment referral program, AD&D insurance, pre-taxed accounts, voluntary legal plan and the B&V Credit Union. Professionals may also be eligible for a performance-based bonus program.

By valuing diverse voices and perspectives, we cultivate an authentically inclusive environment for professionals and are able to provide innovative and effective solutions for clients.

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