Compliance Specialist - Tyson's, VA
Tysons, VAJob$94–118K/yrSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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Job overview
M.C. Dean seeks a Compliance Specialist to manage day-to-day compliance with FAR, DFARS, and contract-specific requirements for a defense contractor. The role maintains the contractor purchasing system, supports cybersecurity compliance and CPSR readiness, reviews purchasing files and contract clauses, tracks regulatory changes, and coordinates audits and Government reviews.
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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 9,000 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
Own day-to-day compliance with FAR, DFARS, and contract-specific requirements for a defense contractor. You will maintain the purchasing system, support cybersecurity compliance (DFARS 252.204-7012, NIST SP 800-171, CMMC), and keep the evidence ready for Government reviews and audits.
Responsibilities
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Maintain the contractor purchasing system against DFARS 252.244-7001 criteria, including the system description, flowdown matrix, and procedures.
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Support CPSR readiness: assemble submission packages, run internal reviews, and track corrective action plans against the 30-day and 45-day response windows.
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Test purchasing files (price analysis, sole-source justifications, negotiation memoranda, consent and notification requirements) and report exceptions.
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Track NIST SP 800-171 implementation, the SSP and POA&M, SPRS score updates, and CMMC assessment readiness.
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Support the cyber incident reporting procedure (72-hour DIBNet reporting) and annual tabletop exercises.
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Review solicitations and contracts for FAR/DFARS clauses, deviations, and flowdown obligations; brief program and procurement teams.
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Monitor regulatory changes, class deviations, and clause revisions; update policies and training.
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Coordinate internal audits, DCMA/DCAA interactions, and responses
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
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Bachelor’s degree in business, contracts, law, cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
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5+ years in government contracts compliance, procurement, or contracts administration.
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Working knowledge of FAR and DFARS, including Part 44 subcontracting and Part 204 safeguarding requirements.
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Experience writing policies and procedures and assembling audit evidence.
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Strong written communication and the ability to explain requirements to non-specialists.
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 $94,000.00 - USD $117,500.00 /Yr.
How this job compares
Set against the 5,208 open Procurement jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$94–118K/yr
- Virginia median$85–139K/yr153 salary ranges
- US median$94–145K/yr2,931 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $106K, is 7% below the Virginia median midpoint ($114K) — in the middle half of Procurement salary ranges in Virginia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 247 open Procurement jobs in Virginia and 5,208 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
- Serco32 open
- Amazon24 open
- M. C. Dean (this employer)19 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Procurement postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (4,039 postings).
- Education
- 2,218 of the 5,208 open Procurement jobs (43%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 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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