Deputy Engineering Leader

M.C. Dean, Inc.

Annapolis (MD)

On-site

USD 104,240 - 130,300

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Medical, dental, vision, life, and dis

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

401k Retirement Plan

Military Reserve pay offset

Paid maternity leave

Job summary

M.C. Dean is a leading building intelligence company delivering cyber-physical solutions for mission-critical facilities.

The Deputy Engineering Leader role focuses on technical leadership across electrical, power, and modular design, guiding multiple disciplines and client engagements. The position supports projects ranging from $50M to beyond $200M, with 500,000–800,000 sq ft and teams from 30 to 400 depending on stage.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Engineering; 5+ years in construction.
Master's degree in Engineering; 3+ years in construction.
PE license may be preferred; willingness to obtain

Responsibilities

Lead complex technical discussions, projects, and programs.
Validate world-class technical solutions on projects.
Ensure engineering best practices across multiple disciplines.
Manage technical risk on a project.
Provide oversight and technical expertise to engineering teams.
Lead an engineering discipline to develop engineers and experts.
Prepare client-specific solutions.
Drive development and maintenance of project artifacts.
Identify and implement process improvements.
Review project details with leadership.
Integrate data from multiple company systems to extract insights.
Ensure safety regulations are adhered to and issues resolved.
Maintain positive relationships with project engineers to achieve milestones.

Skills

Leadership

Independent work

Client ownership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Master's Degree in Engineering

Tools

Revit MEP

Navisworks

Bluebeam

MS Office

ETAP/SKM

AGI32

Job description

About M.C. Dean

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.

Overview

About M.C. Dean

Why Join Us?

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.

An ideal candidate will have managed the technical aspects of the engineering, procurement, and construction for the delivery of electrical systems for mission critical facilities. They provide engineering leadership for the functional, physical, commissioning and project engineering disciplines, as well as being responsible for client ownership, engineering finances and engineering meetings.

The Deputy Engineering Leader is responsible for supporting the projects range from $50 to an excess of $200+ million, with square footage of 500,000 to 800,000, and 30-400 people depending on a project’s stage. This is a technical leadership role rather than management of personnel. A deputy engineering leader will be involved with electrical, power, and modular design. Ideally, they are experts in industrialized construction processes.

Responsibilities

Leading complex technical discussions, projects, and/or programs.
Validating world class technical solutions on projects.
Ensuring engineering best practices are followed across multiple engineering and solution disciplines.
Managing technical risk on a project.
Providing oversight, direction, and technical expertise to engineering teams on a project.
Leading an engineering discipline to develop new and upcoming engineers and technical experts.
Preparing client‑specific solutions.
Driving the development and maintenance of project artifacts that are required to ensure success for a project.
Identifying, recommending, and implementing work process improvements.
Reviewing technical project details with project leadership.
Managing the integration of data from multiple company systems and analyzing the data to draw insights on project technical solution.
Ensuring safety regulations are adhered to and issues identified and resolved.
Maintaining a positive, assertive relationship with project engineers to achieve project milestones and overall project success.

Qualifications

Minimum Experience

Minimum 5+ year’s recent experience in the construction industry with a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, 3+ year’s recent experience in the construction industry with a Master's Degree in Engineering.
Detailed, motivated, self-starter; must be able to work independently and lead in a team environment.

Preferred Qualifications

Design: background in design and engineering of mission critical facilities. Skill in calculations for electrical construction
Build: interest in the manufacture of modular builds for electrical construction
Delivery: serving as onsite liaison, overseeing installation, testing, & commission of electrical construction
PE License: willingness to obtain Professional Engineer license highly preferred
Software: Revit MEP, Navisworks, Bluebeam, MS Office, ETAP/SKM, AGI32, etc highly preferred

Abilities

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.

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