Federal contractor for nuclear, environmental, and clean energy missions
Navarro Research & Engineering is a federal contractor operating across nuclear safety, environmental remediation, and clean energy work for DOE/NNSA, NASA, and DoD clients. The tech stack is heavily CAD/simulation-forward (SolidWorks, AutoCAD, ANSYS, Primavera P6) paired with modern containerization (Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, ArgoCD), signaling engineering teams modernizing legacy technical workflows. Hiring is concentrated in engineering roles at senior and mid-level, with accelerating velocity and active projects spanning rotordynamics simulation, propulsion plant training, and radiological containment—revealing a business scaling technical capacity to handle complex, regulated infrastructure missions.
Notable leadership hires: Contracts Director
Navarro Research & Engineering is a privately held federal contractor founded in 1993 and headquartered in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The company serves DOE/NNSA, NASA, and Department of Defense clients on environmental remediation, nuclear safety, waste management, non-proliferation, and facility management programs across the United States. With 201–500 employees, Navarro combines domain expertise in nuclear and environmental compliance with engineering-heavy technical delivery. Active projects include rotordynamics simulation, propulsion plant trainer development, radiological containment design, and construction work at government sites. The organization's pain-point landscape—project scope/schedule/budget management, infrastructure maintenance, incident root-cause analysis, and cost allowability tracking—reflects the regulated, high-accountability nature of federal contracting.
Primavera P6 for project management, SolidWorks and AutoCAD for CAD, ANSYS for simulation, Python for scripting, AWS for cloud, and Kubernetes/Docker/OpenShift for containerization. Also uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Jira, and PostgreSQL.
Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The company was founded in 1993 and operates active programs across the nation for federal clients including DOE/NNSA, NASA, and the Department of Defense.
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