Cost Engineer, Senior
M.C. Dean, Inc.
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Job summary
M.C. Dean, Inc. is looking for a Senior Cost Engineer to lead budgeting, cost codes, and bid/proposal efforts across electrical construction projects. You will help develop scopes, manage schedules, and price change orders, ensuring cost control and compliance with project requirements.
Ideal candidates have extensive experience with estimating, scheduling, blueprints interpretation, and contract documents, and demonstrate strong technical writing and team coordination abilities.
Qualifications
- Proficient with MS Office Suite and Autocad; experience with estimating, project management and scheduling software.
- Experience reading and interpreting blueprints.
- Knowledge of design principles, relevant codes, and safety standards.
- Familiarity with electrical equipment, materials and specifications.
- Experience with contract documents such as drawings, subcontracts and change orders.
- Exposure to technical writing and formal documentation.
- Ability to plan and organize own activities or team work.
- 2+ years in the communications field with electrical exposure preferred.
Responsibilities
- Develop budgets and cost codes for projects and assist in proposals.
- Gather data and assist in bid proposal estimates and design/build proposals.
- Develop and present project scopes to customers and meet potential clients.
- Run day-to-day operations of a project or sub-section.
- Create project schedules using Critical Path Method; assign costs and manpower.
- Identify change orders and ensure effective resolution.
- Price, track and manage change orders; maintain price data from suppliers.
- Coordinate with teams for logs, schedules, and criteria compliance.
- Assist in field inspections and productivity tracking.
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Job description
M.C. Dean is Building Intelligence. We design, build, operate, and maintain cyber-physical solutions for the nation’s most mission-critical facilities, secure environments, complex infrastructure, and global enterprises. With over 7,000 employees, our capabilities span electrical, electronic security, telecommunications, life safety, automation and controls, audiovisual, and IT systems. Headquarters in Tysons, Virginia, M.C. Dean delivers resilient, secure, and innovative power and technology solutions through engineering expertise and smart systems integration.
M.C. Dean is Building Intelligence. We design, build, operate, and maintain cyber-physical solutions for the nation’s most mission-critical facilities, secure environments, complex infrastructure, and global enterprises. With over 7,000 employees, our capabilities span electrical, electronic security, telecommunications, life safety, automation and controls, audiovisual, and IT systems. Headquarters in Tysons, Virginia, M.C. Dean delivers resilient, secure, and innovative power and technology solutions through engineering expertise and smart systems integration.
Our people are passionate about engineering innovation that improves lives and drives impactful change. Guided by our core values—agility, expertise, and trust, we foster a collaborative and forward-thinking work environment. At M.C. Dean, we are committed to building the next generation of technical leaders in electrical, engineering, and cybersecurity industries. The Cost Engineer, Senior, works on electrical construction projects from bid and proposals through construction phase to completion, ensuring the work complies with all standards, specifications and budgets.
- Develop budgets and cost codes for projects; assist in the preparation of technical proposals, to include assisting in the design and writing the scope of work, management plans, work sequence, safety, quality control and commissioning.
- Gather data and assist in preparing bid proposal estimates and design/build proposals.
- Develop and present clear and detailed project scopes to the customer and meeting with potential customers to present proposals.
- Run day-to-day operations of a project or sub-section of a project.
- Develop project schedules utilizing the Critical Path Method; assign cost and manpower to the schedule to provide cash and manpower forecasting.
- Understand plans and specifications to identify the types and grades of materials and equipment needed and to ensure compliance with project requirements.
- Gather data and assist in preparing bid proposal estimates and design/build proposals.
- Perform take-offs from drawings; price change orders.
- Understand and apply cost fundamentals; maintaining current, accurate information on prices from suppliers and contractors.
- Identify value added solutions and cost saving methods.
- Establish labor and productivity rates.
- Identify change orders and ensuring effective resolution.
- Price, track and manage change orders.
- Managing coordination, detailing logs, schedule, design development logs and criteria compliance matrix.
- Assisting in Field Inspections / productivity tracking.
- Three (3)+years of experience with a Master's degree.
- Five (5)+ years of experience with a B.S. in Electrical, Civil, Architectural Engineering, Construction Management
- Eight (8)+ years of experience with a related associates degree
- Ten (10)+ years of experience with a High School diploma or GED.
- Proficient with MS Office Suite and Autocad; experience using sophisticated Estimating, Project Mgmt and Scheduling software
- Experience reading and interpreting blueprints
- Knowledge of design principles, relevant codes, and safety standards
- Familiarity with electrical equipment, materials and specifications
- Experience with contract documents such as contract drawings, subcontracts, contract addendum, specifications, and change orders
- Experience or exposure to Technical writing
- Proven ability to effectively plan and organize one's own activities or the activities of others
- 2+ years experience working in the communications field with added experience in the electrical field preferred
- Familiarity with electrical equipment, materials and specifications
- Experience reading and interpreting blueprints
- Experience with contract documents such as contract drawings, subcontracts, contract addendum,
- Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in the production of electrical plans, blueprints and drawings.
- Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize and accomplish work
- Generating high quality work
- Working well with others in order to reach a common goal.
- Must successfully pass a background check.
- Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite is required.
- Local candidates or current MC Dean employees preferred MS Project, P6 and Accubid are preferred software
- LEED certification (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)
- Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA)
- Journeyman Electrician License FE License, EIT License
- Exposure to computer screens for an extended period of time.
- Sitting for extended periods of time.
- Reach by extending hands or arms in any direction.
- Have finger dexterity in order to manipulate objects with fingers rather than whole hands or arms, for example, using a keyboard.
- Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Identify and understand the speech of another person.
USD $104,240.00 - USD $130,300.00 /Yr.
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