M.C. Dean

Designs and deploys secure mission-critical infrastructure

Deputy Engineering Leader

Electrical EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeCharlotte, NC, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

A Bachelor's Degree in Engineering and at least five years of recent construction-industry experience, or a Master's Degree in Engineering and at least three years of recent construction-industry experience.
Ability to work independently and lead in a team environment.
Exposure to computer screens for extended periods and ability to sit for extended periods.
Ability to reach by extending hands or arms in any direction and finger dexterity to manipulate objects such as a keyboard.
Ability to listen to and understand spoken information and communicate information verbally so others understand.
Ability to read and understand written information.
Ability to apply general rules to specific problems and produce sensible answers.
Ability to identify and understand another person's speech.

Responsibilities

Lead complex technical discussions, projects, and programs.
Validate technical solutions on projects.
Ensure engineering best practices are followed across multiple engineering and solution disciplines.
Manage technical risk on projects.
Provide oversight, direction, and technical expertise to project engineering teams.
Lead an engineering discipline to develop emerging engineers and technical experts.
Prepare client-specific solutions.
Drive development and maintenance of project artifacts needed for project success.
Identify, recommend, and implement work-process improvements.
Review technical project details with project leadership.
Manage integration of data from multiple company systems and analyze it to draw insights on project technical solutions.
Ensure safety regulations are followed and identified issues are resolved.
Maintain a positive, assertive relationship with project engineers to achieve project milestones and overall project success.

Desired Qualifications

Background in design and engineering of mission-critical facilities.
Skill in calculations for electrical construction.
Interest in manufacturing modular builds for electrical construction.
Experience serving as an onsite liaison and overseeing installation, testing, and commissioning of electrical construction.
Willingness to obtain a Professional Engineer license.
Experience with Revit MEP, Navisworks, Bluebeam, Microsoft Office, ETAP/SKM, AGI32, or similar software.

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.

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.

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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