Deputy Engineering Leader

M.C. Dean, Inc.; Winchester (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Virginia is seeking a Deputy Engineering Leader to manage technical aspects of engineering and construction for electrical systems. The role involves leading discussions, ensuring best practices, and providing oversight to engineering teams. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in the automation industry with a relevant engineering degree. This position offers a chance to shape technical leadership in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years recent experience in the automation industry with a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering.
• 3+ years recent experience in the automation industry with a Master's Degree in Engineering.
• Detail-oriented and self-starter capable of leading teams.

Responsibilities

• Leading complex technical discussions and projects.
• Ensuring engineering best practices across multiple disciplines.
• Providing technical leadership to engineering teams.
• Driving work process improvements and managing project risks.

Skills

Technical leadership

Project management

Client relationship management

Technical risk management

Automation industry knowledge

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Master's Degree in Engineering

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.

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

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.