Design Engineer Staff

Job Description

Job Description

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

• Interpret routine project requirements for assigned scope using established tools, templates, guidance, and defined scope boundaries.
• Apply standard discipline knowledge, codes, standards, specifications, and company practices to routine design tasks and design decisions within defined scope.
• Perform routine calculations, studies, and evaluations using established methods and tools; check results for reasonableness, common errors, omissions, and inconsistencies.
• Develop or update routine system diagrams, layouts, interface information, architecture inputs, and coordination details using established processes.
• Produce routine design deliverables with growing independence, including drawings, specifications, narratives, calculations, schedules, bills of material, diagrams, and technical packages.
• Apply standard selection criteria to routine equipment, materials, or technology decisions; develop or update bills of material, equipment schedules, and comparison inputs for review.
• Evaluate routine field conditions and constructability considerations; support RFIs, submittals, survey reports, field questions, and approved design changes within assigned scope.
• Apply standard testing, commissioning, and operational readiness considerations to routine assigned designs, procedures, checklists, and turnover documentation.
• Plan and execute routine engineering work with growing independence; track deliverables, action items, risks, comments, changes, dependencies, and assumptions using established tools.
• Contribute to team quality by checking work, applying feedback consistently, sharing routine lessons learned, and participating in design reviews and knowledge-sharing activities.

 

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical field with 2+ years of relevant design engineering experience.
• Working knowledge of discipline-specific engineering principles, standard design approaches, codes, standards, specifications, and company practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, time management, organization, attention to detail, and ability to balance quality and responsiveness.

 

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.

We offer an excellent benefits package including:

• A competitive salary
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• 401k Retirement Plan
• Military Reserve pay offset
• Paid maternity leave