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M.C. Dean

Designs and deploys secure mission-critical infrastructure

Project Leader 2 - Energy & Utility

Project ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeTysons, VA, USA$150.1k - $187.6k /yrIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics, preferably from an ABET-accredited program.
  • At least 10 years of experience leading construction projects in the energy and utility sector.
  • Strong technical understanding of distributed energy systems, including natural gas reciprocating internal combustion engines, combustion turbines, and combined-cycle generation.
  • Strong technical understanding of balance-of-plant systems, including electrical substations, heat recovery steam generators, steam, fuel gas, cooling, and piping systems.
  • Strong knowledge of a project management or project scheduling system such as Microsoft Project or Primavera P6.
  • Ability to create project schedules and schedule resources by work items, tasks, and hours.
  • Ability to estimate project work and prepare customer proposals.
  • Understanding of critical path analysis of project and resource data to identify potential project issues.
  • Ability to discuss project and resource schedules, costs, and budgets with project leadership.
  • Strong knowledge of procurement processes, including evaluating suppliers and purchasing technical goods and services.
  • Ability to create technical documentation, including design documents and reference libraries.
  • Ability to build and lead teams.
  • Ability to work with computer screens for extended periods and sit for extended periods.
  • Ability to reach by extending hands or arms in any direction and manipulate objects with finger dexterity, such as using a keyboard.
  • Ability to listen to and understand spoken information and ideas, communicate information and ideas verbally so others understand, and read and understand written information and ideas.
  • Ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce sensible answers and identify and understand another person's speech.

Responsibilities

  • Administer, organize, and implement large-scale energy and utility construction projects for mission-critical data centers and industrial facilities.
  • Manage the full project lifecycle, including proposal, estimating, design, solutioning, installation, commissioning, and close-out.
  • Manage project documentation, including project requirements, manpower requirements, project layouts, project schedules, detailed equipment plans, and field office support.
  • Deliver projects aligned with hyperscale data center requirements, including aggressive schedules, phased energization, and high-availability architectures such as N+1 and 2N.
  • Manage procurement and delivery of major generation equipment, coordinate with original equipment manufacturers, track long-lead equipment, and oversee factory and site acceptance testing.
  • Manage utility and ISO/RTO interconnection processes, including application timelines, study milestones, and utility coordination to align with project schedules and commercial operation targets.
  • Lead coordination of natural gas utility scope, including pipeline interconnections, metering, and pressure regulation, to align fuel availability with project schedules and commissioning milestones.
  • Lead commissioning and startup execution, including system turnover, functional testing, grid synchronization, and performance validation to achieve commercial operation.
  • Identify and manage energy infrastructure risks, including interconnection delays, fuel supply constraints, long-lead equipment, and commissioning performance.
  • Coordinate and lead the project kickoff meeting.
  • Develop a work breakdown structure with named work packages and assigned, resource-loaded tasks to establish a baseline resource plan.
  • Schedule project resources to maintain the baseline project schedule and create baseline-versus-actual resource reporting as required.
  • Conduct site surveys and site cost studies, and prepare projected costs, forecasts, cost codes, and progress reports as required.
  • Assist in collecting progress data for self-performed and contractor-performed work.
  • Measure project scope and performance against the project plan to ensure costs, budget, schedule, and scope remain within acceptable variances.
  • Develop and maintain project artifacts, including engineering and design documents needed for effective short- and long-term project staffing.
  • Coordinate the acquisition of major equipment and materials.
  • Acquire required project permits and licenses and ensure inspections are handled correctly and promptly.
  • Estimate, schedule, or confer with estimators, schedulers, and other assigned resources to identify work procedures, complaints, and related issues.
  • Review the project schedule with the general contractor and/or customer and work directly with the customer on a schedule.
  • Integrate data from multiple company systems and analyze it to derive insights on project progress.
  • Ensure timely completion of project punch-list items, accurate as-built drawings, operation and maintenance manuals, and training materials.
  • Identify opportunities for cost savings, quality improvements, and best practices.
  • Maintain working relationships with project leadership, supervisors, superintendents, foremen, crew leaders, and other project personnel to achieve milestones and project success.

Desired Qualifications

  • Strong knowledge of finance systems as they relate to project budgets and cost codes.
  • Understanding of earned value analysis as it relates to project management.
  • Proficiency in automated cost and schedule management systems.

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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