Systems Engineer 2

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.

Responsibilities

As a Systems Integration Engineer 2 , you will be working with a dynamic team of systems and controls engineers responsible for design and implementation of multiple projects across multiple programs, in all areas of our technology delivery value stream. Responsibilities include assisting in designing the systems architectural framework for large complex resilient systems and formulating high-level architectural solutions to ensure implemented solutions meet stakeholder needs, standards, and performance requirements. You will work closely with stakeholders to gather technical requirements, architect solutions, and execute on deliverables.

Responsibilities

Assist with the analysis, evaluation, engineering, implementation, testing and commissioning of both greenfield and brownfield industrial control, power control, energy management control, and transit control systems.

• Create, review, and/or approve system engineering documentation to ensure that processes and specifications meet system needs and are accurate, comprehensive, and complete.

• Assist with the identification, elicitation, development, and management of project (operational, functional, and technical) requirements in a commonly accessible repository.

• Analyze user requirements and concept of operations documents to develop system requirements specifications.

• Support and proactively control and manage changes to requirements, consider impacts prior to commitment to change, gain stakeholder buy-in, eliminate ambiguity, ensure traceability to source requirements, and track and settle open actions.

• Guide the design engineering team on technical solutioning, including the control and management of technical system interfaces through a common interface control format, and storing interface data in a commonly accessible repository.

• Guide the project team through the Pre-Installation Test and Checkout process, including coordination and logistics, test planning, test procedure development, execution of testing, and recording and submittal of test results.

• Guide the project team through the implementation phase of the project, ensuring that transition plans and failover plans are adequate to minimize down-time for our clients.

• Guide the project team through the commissioning phase of the project, ensuring that test cases satisfactorily verify requirements and validate that stakeholder needs have been satisfied.

• Support engineering management and ensure the integrity of the system baseline throughout the project lifecycle from development through deployment and into operations & maintenance.

• Review technical submittals to ensure that they are clear, concise, and compliant with project requirements.

• Review customer and other stakeholder comments. Analyze comments for potential impact to design, configuration, or otherwise affecting project requirements (changes to requirements or imposition of new requirements), and provide responses and recommendations to project management.

Qualifications

Education/Experience:

• Systems Engineering or a Related Engineering Discipline.

• Bachelor's Degree REQUIRED with 2+ Years of progressive experience.

• Experience developing and implementing integrated hardware and software solutions.

• Experience developing and managing requirements at all levels of the system hierarchy.

• Experience integrating systems and subsystems in multidisciplinary project.

• Strong Oral, Written and Presentation Skills with the ability and experience communicating directly with executive leadership.

• Demonstrated experience with developing cost estimates and work breakdown structures for the design and implementation of complex projects.

• Demonstrated experience performing technical cross-training/coaching of junior colleagues.

• Demonstrated background working with multidisciplinary teams.

• Demonstrated time management and organization skills to meet deadlines and quality objectives.

• Strong MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio Skills is a plus.

• Ability to travel, both domestically and internationally, up to 10% of the time.

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.