Deputy Engineering Leader

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.

M.C. Dean is looking for Deputy Engineering Leader to lead the group through the next phase of its evolution and growth.

The CIS team is a rapidly growing, geographically distributed organization with engineers, designers, and specialists creating those solutions and managing out design partners in procuring those solutions.

• Develop and standardize solutions optimized for manufacturing.
• Develop design concept and delivery approach at the program and project level.
• Develop detailed functional and physical designs.
• Produce supporting calculations, reports and specifications.
• Manage design multidiscipline design teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide organizational leadership for the large and knowledge-intensive engineering and design operation group, including organizational design and alignment with MCD's job architectures.
• Provide process leadership. Refine, maintain, and enable data-driven structured continuous improvement of design development, product management, workload management, and other critical processes.
• Establish / advance M.C. Dean's design development and continuous improvement practice, including measuring performance and total cost of delivery for the solution designs.
• Drive integration of the Design for Modular Delivery capability with M.C. Dean's engineering, project delivery.
• Act as the authority and escalation resource for issues and problem resolution in the above and related areas.

Qualifications

Education/Experience:

• Minimum 5+ year's of experience with a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related discipline, or 3+ year's recent experience with a Master's Degree in Engineering or related discipline.
• Ability to obtain a Secret Clearance.
• Proven track record leading a large engineering and design organization with responsibilities comparable to the ones described above.
• Strong organizational leadership/management experience required (management strengths may be more important than advanced technical expertise).
• Ability to obtain a secret clearance.

Credentials:

• DBIA and PMP desired.

Specialization:

• 7 years Building architecture / architectural engineering design management experience is required

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.