Mechanical Engineer

Delta Solutions & Strategies is seeking a Mechanical Engineer to join our team at Buckley Space Force Base, CO.

• Performs Operations & Maintenance (O&M) engineering involving maintenance, repair, upgrade, and operation of mechanical equipment and systems (such as HVAC, plumbing, and environmental controls) to infrastructure facilities, including utility systems, at a large and complex military installation utilizing a professional knowledge of mechanical engineering.
• Manages the O&M plans and programs for mission essential mechanical systems throughout the installation. Develops or oversees the preparation of plans, instructions, and specifications for the repair, modification, maintenance, and operational testing of existing and new types of systems with many component pieces of equipment, where the employee must search out and develop new or greatly modified approaches because available technical manuals or specifications are frequently inadequate.
• Recommends where major failure problems or instabilities exist and recommends how to correct them. Investigates and analyzes complex systems, materials, and equipment problems concerning O&M issues. Reviews mechanical designs and specifications for reliability, maintainability, and effectiveness.
• Maintains current mechanical engineering data for O&M projects/programs.
• Provides recommendations for short- and long-range requirements for replacement of existing complex and major mechanical systems, equipment, etc. Performs preliminary mechanical engineering analyses on large and complicated projects.
• Serves as a consultant on all mechanical engineering aspects of O&M projects and provides mechanical engineering support to trades and crafts shops. Provides professional consultation on a wide range of difficult mechanical engineering issues and problems. Provides advice to requesting organizations. Consults with Contractors, Army Corps of Engineers, Architect and Engineer (A&E) firms, and COs to resolve problems on O&M design interfaces, regulatory limitations, and to exchange information and expedite work.
• Coordinates projects with engineers in other disciplines or with architects.
• In conjunction with the primary duty of O&M, secondary to O&M, performs work in the construction management, design, and programming/base development functions. Monitors/manages construction projects for new construction, renovations, and improvements to real property facilities from start to finish, including the performance of preconstruction site surveys all the way to completion of as-built drawings. Prepares/reviews designs for a variety of real property facilities construction projects, determining the design criteria, creating cost estimates and time schedules, preparing A&E statements of work, etc.
• This support is considered mission essential and work hours will be non-standard work hour shifts to support a 24/7/365 function to include nights, weekends, and holidays.