Deputy Engineering Leader

M.C. Dean, Inc.

Maryland

On-site

USD 104,240 - 130,300

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, life, and dis

Disability insurance

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

401k Retirement Plan

Military Reserve pay offset

Paid maternity leave

Job summary

M.C. Dean seeks a Deputy Engineering Leader to provide technical leadership for electrical systems on mission-critical facilities. You will guide design, engineering, procurement, and construction activities, validate world-class solutions, and manage project artifacts and technical risk across disciplines.

You will also mentor junior engineers and coordinate client-facing engineering discussions. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in construction with a Bachelor's in Engineering (Master's

Qualifications

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.

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.

Skills

Design experience

Build experience

Delivery experience

Engineering leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Master's Degree in Engineering

Tools

Revit MEP

Navisworks

Bluebeam

MS Office

ETAP/SKM

AGI32

Job description

Overview

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.

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
PELicense: 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.

We offer an excellent benefits package including: