M.C. Dean

Designs and deploys secure mission-critical infrastructure

Electrical Foreman

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Full-timeRichmond, VA, USA$37.50 - $41.50 /hrIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

At least 6 years of experience in the electrical industry with a high school diploma or GED, or at least 4 years of experience with an associate degree.
Ability to lift, carry, and move objects weighing up to 50 pounds regularly, following proper lifting techniques and safety protocols.
Ability to relocate a 12-foot stepladder without assistance.
Ability to work at heights up to 60 feet and climb and maintain balance on scaffolds, aerial lifts, catwalks, and ladders.
Ability to walk, climb, lift, squat, crawl, kneel, push, pull, and reach overhead routinely and repetitively.
Possess good vision, including color vision, and the ability to hear and communicate in English.
Ability to use a standard ladder within its weight limit while carrying tools.
Ability to recognize when something is wrong or likely to go wrong.
Ability to apply general rules to specific problems and produce sensible answers.
Ability to combine information to form general rules or conclusions, including identifying relationships among seemingly unrelated events.
Ability to see details at close range.
Ability to listen to and understand spoken information and ideas.

Responsibilities

Plan, organize, and schedule crews to complete assigned work orders, including assigning tasks, ensuring high-quality installation, conducting quality inspections, monitoring task completion and compliance, and preventing safety issues.
Plan productivity for assigned work scope.
Organize materials by specific areas or floors and track material inventories.
Identify tools and equipment required for each crew, assign gang boxes, inspect tools, and track tools using sign-in and sign-out sheets.
Ensure each crew activity has information packages, including contract drawings, shop drawings, panel schedules, and cut sheets.
Monitor crew breaks and time spent on personal breaks, smoking, and conversation.
Submit daily hour and unit reports for each assigned crew member using the established standard time sheet.
Conduct quality-control inspections of completed work in accordance with the established quality-control plan and checklists.
Ensure work is installed professionally and to a high-quality standard.
Maintain accurate as-built drawings, updating and logging them on master record contract drawings at least weekly.
Inventory and secure assigned tools and equipment at the end of each day, and submit inventory and inspection sheets every Monday.
Report lost, stolen, or damaged tools.
Review all Activity Hazard Analyses related to the foreman's scope, obtain each crew member's signature, and store them at the gang box in the field.
Submit inspection sheets for all assigned support equipment weekly.
Follow established procedures for responding to and reporting accidents and incidents, submitting reports within 24 hours.
Ensure the foreman and crew leader clean up their scope of work and leave work areas broom-swept at the end of each day.
Ensure installations meet or exceed applicable codes, contractual obligations, best practices, and Corporate Quality Policy requirements.
Review and implement all facets of the Project Quality Plan; document deviations and communicate them to the site quality-control representative for approval before proceeding.
Participate in and assist the site quality-control representative with three-phase quality control—Preparatory, Initial, and Follow-up—for each Definable Feature of Work under the crew leader's responsibility.
Document and return construction quality-control checklists to the site quality-control representative, ensuring timely installation inspections and adherence to the quality-assurance and quality-control schedule.
Initiate applicable discrepancy notices to document construction issues and communicate them for resolution.
Review and provide feedback on weekly installation quality scorecards to ensure systemic issues are addressed through formal root-cause, corrective, and preventive action.
Review ongoing quality issues from daily quality-control reports with the crew to mitigate or eliminate nonconformities.
Ensure nonconformity tags identified by the site quality-control representative on discrepant installations are resolved promptly.
Participate in quality-assurance and quality-control design reviews of engineering and coordination drawings to identify constructability issues.
Participate in and provide feedback on the quality portion of the daily Operational Risk Management work briefing.

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 Electrical Foreman is responsible for planning, organizing and scheduling crews to complete assigned work orders, including assigning tasks, assuring the work is being installed in a high-quality manner and performing quality inspections. Monitors task completion, compliance and prevents safety issues.

Responsibilities

Productivity Planning for assigned scope of work
Material Phasing – Organize Material by specific areas/floors. (keep track of materials inventories).
Tools & Equipment - Identify all tools and equipment required to support each crew (Gang box Assignments, tool inspection and keep track of tools by signing sheet in-out).
Information Packages – Each crew activity must have information packages (contract drawings, shop drawings, panel schedules, cut sheets, etc…).
Keep control of breaks (loss time of personal breaks smoking time, conversation time).
Daily hour/unit reports for their crews – Submit hours/units daily for each employee assigned to Foreman on established from (Standard Time Sheet).
Quality control inspections of work completed – Must follow established QC plan & check lists.
Responsible for installing the work in a professional manner and high-quality standard.
Maintaining accurate as built drawings – As-built drawings are to be updated and logged onto master record contract drawings a minimum of once a week.
Inventory of all tools & equipment at the day’s end for assigned tools & equipment. (Everything must be accountable & secure) inventory/inspection sheets to be turned in every Monday.
Lost/Stolen/Damage tool report.
AHA’s – All AHA’s related to Foreman’s scope of work must be reviewed, signed by each crew member and stored at their gang box in the field.
Support Equipment Inspection – Foreman must submit daily equipment inspection sheets for all equipment assigned to Foreman once a week.
Accident/Incident Reporting & Investigation – Must follow the established procedures for responding and reporting accident and incidents. All reports must be submitted within 24 hours of accident/incident.
Clean Up – Foreman and Crew leader are responsible for all clean up related to their scope of work. All work areas are to be left in a broom swept condition at the end of the day.

Quality of work completed must follow:

Ensure installation meets/exceeds codes, contractual obligations, best practices and other requirements as mandated by the Corporate Quality Policy.
Ensure all facets of Project Quality Plan are reviewed and implemented. Any deviations are properly documented and communicated to site Q.C. representative for approval prior to proceeding any further.
Participate and assist the Site Q.C. representative in the implementation of 3-Phase Quality Control, which includes Preparatory, Initial & Follow-up for each Definable Feature of Work (DFOW) under the crew leader’s responsibility.
Properly document and return the CQC checklists to Site Q.C. representative ensuring installation inspections are done timely and facilitate the adherence to QAQC schedule.
Initiate Various Discrepancy Notices (EDN, DDN, PDN, FDN, ADN, PITDN, CDN) in order to ensure issues arising during construction are properly documented and communicated for resolution.
Review and provide feedback on weekly installation quality scorecards as generated by QAQC service center to ensure systemic issues are addressed through formal root cause, corrective and preventive action.
Review ongoing quality issues identified in the daily Q.C. report with the crew to ensure mitigation/elimination of the nonconformities.
Ensure nonconformity tags identified on discrepant installation by site Q.C. representative is timely resolved.
Participate in QAQC Design Review of Engineering & Coordination drawings to identify constructability issues.
Participate and provide feedback on Quality portion of the daily ORM work briefing.

Qualifications

6+ years of experience in the electrical industry with a High School diploma or GED
4+ years of experience with an Associate degree

Abilities

The position requires the ability to lift, carry, and move objects weighing up to [50 pounds] on a regular basis. Candidates must demonstrate physical strength and stamina to perform various tasks, including but not limited to, loading, and unloading, operating equipment, and assisting in the transportation of various materials. Proper lifting techniques and safety protocols must be followed to ensure personal and team safety.
Relocates a 12-foot stepladder without assistance.
Works at various heights up to 60 feet and can climb and maintain balance on scaffolds, aerial lifts, catwalks and all types of ladders.
Walks, climbs, lifts, squats, crawls, kneels, pushes, pulls and reaches overhead on a routine and repetitive basis.
Possess good vision (may be corrected vision), the ability to see in color, and the ability to hear and communicate in English.
May use a standard ladder without exceeding the weight limit while carrying tools.
Tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
Combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (including finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
See details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

We offer an excellent benefits package including:

A competitive salary
Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
Paid time off
Tuition reimbursement
401k Retirement Plan
Military Reserve pay offset
Paid maternity leave

Pay Range

USD $37.50 - USD $41.50 /Hr.

About the Company

M.C. Dean

Designs and deploys secure mission-critical infrastructure

M.C. Dean designs, builds, operates, and maintains integrated cyber-physical systems for mission-critical facilities, secure environments, and large enterprises. Its work spans electrical power, security, telecommunications, life safety, automation and controls, audio-visual, and IT systems, all coordinated through management platforms that support long-term operation and sustainability. The company works end-to-end: it engineers solutions, installs them, and then runs and maintains them to ensure continuous, secure, and resilient performance. What sets it apart is its ability to provide comprehensive, turnkey technology and infrastructure services for critical environments—combining physical systems with digital management to create secure, automated facilities. The goal is to deliver automated, secure, and resilient power and technology systems and the platforms needed to manage them over the long term.

Company size: 1,001-5,000
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: Tysons, VA
Founded: 1949

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