Deputy Project Leader - Ruther Glen, VA
Caroline County, VAJob$94–117K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Deputy Project Manager is a training position focused on learning to supervise project employees, prepare strategic plans and budgets, develop project plans, and analyze statistical data. The role runs day-to-day project operations, manages change orders and cash flow, maintains project documentation, and coordinates with supervisors, customers, contractors, and design professionals to resolve construction matters.
Skills & qualifications
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Full job description
Overview
About Modular Mission Critical
ModularMission Critical™ is the manufacturing campus for M.C. Dean’s complex, modular product line for datacenters and critical infrastructure. Located just north of Richmond, VA, this site is growing fast serving customers worldwide. Important openings include assemblers for our production lines and engineers and designers for products and continuous improvement. Join M.C. Dean’s more than 9,000 employees around the world making an impact through innovations in power and technology.
Why Join Us?
Our people are passionate about 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 for employees to build long-term careers.
The Deputy Project Manager is a training position that consists of learning how to supervise and direct the employees on a particular project, prepare strategic plans and budgets, develop a comprehensive project plan, and analyze statistical data.
Responsibilities
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Run day-to-day operations of a project or sub-section of a project.
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Identify change orders and ensuring effective resolution.
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Price, track and manage change orders.
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Plan and monitor cash flow against cash expenses.
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Maintain as-builts as work is completed. Document project issues/conditions.
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Plan and execute project completion and punch list.
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Develop specific goals and plans to prioritize organize, and accomplish your work.
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Read and interpret blue prints and project specifications.
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Research and compile submittals; pricing change orders and prepare estimates for partially designed projects by finishing the design and preparing a complete project estimate.
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Confer with supervisory personnel, owners, contractors, and design professionals to discuss and resolve matters such as work procedures, complaints, and construction problems.
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Communicate with people outside the Company, representing the Company to customers, the public, the government, and general contractor representatives.
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Clearly understand the timeliness required for decision making, submission of RFIs, and documentation of all verbal conversations or agreements.
Qualifications
Education:
- BS in Engineering (Preferred EE or Industry related degree) with 5+ years of experience.
Experience:
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Related Construction experience with five years' working for an electrical or construction contractor.
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Experience working on construction projects ranging from $500,000 to $10M.
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Experience working with contract drawings, subcontracts, contract addendums, specifications, change orders, RFIs, submittals.
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Experience with CPM Scheduling
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Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principals involved in the production of precision technical plans, blueprints and drawings on projects.
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Must have strong interpersonal and writing skills and be a problem owner/solver.
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Proven ability to effectively plan and organize one's own activities or the activities of others.
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Proficiency with Computers including MS Office, Blue Beam, and PDF.
Preferred Skill set:
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Accubid Estimating (Or equivalent) directly related to Electrical Installations.
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Primavera P6 CPM Scheduling Experience and proficiency (or equivalent).
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Ability and Willingness to Travel to project locations as needed.
Abilities:
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Exposure to computer screens for an extended period of time.
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Sitting for extended periods of time.
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Reach by extending hands or arms in any direction.
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Have finger dexterity in order to manipulate objects with fingers rather than whole hands or arms, for example, using a keyboard.
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Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
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Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
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Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
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Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
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Identify and understand the speech of another person.
Pay Range
USD $93,840.00 - USD $117,300.00 /Yr.
How this job compares
Set against the 15,594 open Project Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$94–117K/yr
- Virginia median$118–171K/yr494 salary ranges
- US median$106–175K/yr10,037 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $106K, is 28% below the Virginia median midpoint ($147K) — in the lowest quarter of Project Management salary ranges in Virginia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 717 open Project Management jobs in Virginia and 15,594 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
- Capital One74 open
- M. C. Dean (this employer)60 open
- Amazon40 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Project Management postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (12,514 postings).
- Education
- 6,565 of the 15,594 open Project Management jobs (42%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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