Physical & Electronic Security Engineer
Date: May 13, 2025
Location:
US
Company: Black & Veatch Family of Companies
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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 modificat
