Engineer, Electrical Engineering

Overview

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.

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.

• Manages all engineering aspects of fire detection and alarm and suppression projects, and oversees aspects of the work from others.
• Includes requirements design and shop drawing design, commissioning, and construction project close-out activities for life safety projects across educational, federal, transit, healthcare, and information technology (data center) sectors.
• Develops engineering plans and designs for life safety projects (detection, suppression, containment).
• Develops and implements commissioning and testing plans.
• Provides cost estimating for multiple projects and input regarding schedule and timing for engineering tasks related to design, manufacturing, and commissioning.
• Conducts surveys to define scope and conceptual design from existing buildings.
• Provides ongoing site support to the system installation teams.
• Mentors junior engineers.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering in Fire Protection, Industrial, Mechanical, Electrical or related discipline is required with 5+ years of experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity.
• Licensed Professional Engineer

• Use of Pyrosim software a plus.
• Use of EVAC software a plus.
• NICET III or NICET IV in fire detection and alarm a strong preference.
• NICET in sprinkler or suppression a plus.
• Strong oral, written and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work with multidisciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated time management and organization skills to meet deadlines and quality objectives.
• Strong MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint skills are a plus.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 25% of the time.

• Exposure to computer screens for extended periods.
• Sitting for extended periods.
• Reach by extending hands or arms in any direction; finger dexterity for keyboard use.
• Listen to and understand information presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Communicate information and ideas clearly in speaking and writing.
• Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• Apply general rules to specific problems to produce sensible results.
• Identify and understand the speech of others.

• Seniority level:
  Not Applicable

• Full-time

• Engineering and Information Technology

• Design Services

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