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Project Engineer, Senior

M. C. Dean

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Location
Atlanta, GA
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Job overview

The Senior Project Engineer provides technical and administrative information to project teams, ensures work complies with engineering standards, codes, specifications, and design instructions, and troubleshoots installation problems. The role develops practical solutions to difficult problems and manages project operations, budgets, schedules, labor, costs, documentation, procurement, and completion activities.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Project BudgetingProject SchedulingManpower ForecastingCash Flow MonitoringLabor ProductivityCost SavingsChange Order ManagementAs-Built DocumentationProject RecordkeepingProject CompletionMaterial ProcurementInvoice PreparationCost EstimationSafety PlanningDesign CoordinationField InspectionMaterials RequisitionWritten CommunicationVerbal CommunicationReading ComprehensionProblem SolvingListening Comprehension

Qualifications

BS in Engineering or MS in Engineering5+ Years With BS or 3+ Years With MSProfessional Engineer License

Full 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 recognizable mission critical facilities, secure environments, complex infrastructure, and global enterprises. The company’s capabilities include electrical power systems, electronic security, telecommunications, life safety, automation and controls, audio visual, and IT systems. M.C. Dean is headquartered in Tysons, Virginia and employs more than 9,000 professionals who engineer and deploy automated, secure, and resilient power and technology systems; and deliver the management platforms essential for long-term system sustainability.

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.

Provides technical & administrative information to others working on a project to ensure that the work complies with all engineering standards, codes, specifications, and design instruction; trouble-shoots engineering related installation problems. Provides solutions to a wide range of difficult problems. Solutions are imaginative, thorough and practical.

Responsibilities

  • Planning and maintaining project budget and schedule.

  • Planning and maintaining Manpower forecasts in relation to budget and schedule.

  • Planning and monitoring cash flow against cash expenses.

  • Establishing labor and productivity rates.

  • Identifying value added solutions and cost saving methods.

  • Pricing, tracking and managing change orders.

  • Identifying change orders and ensuring effective resolution.

  • Maintaining as-builts as work is completed.

  • Documenting project issues/conditions.

  • Maintaining organized and detailed project records.

  • Submitting hours and cost codes.

  • Planning and executing project completion and punch list.

  • Preparing specifications for purchase of materials and equipment.

  • Preparing invoices.

  • Submitting O&M manuals.

  • Completing a comprehensive estimate.

  • Running a KPR (Key Project Review).

  • Developing a Safety Plan.

  • Running day-to-day operations of a project or sub-section of a project.

  • Managing design development logs and criteria compliance matrix.

  • Managing coordination & detailing logs & schedule.

  • Managing schedule updates.

  • Managing productivity reports.

  • Identifying value added solutions & cost savings methods.

  • Being a major participant in Project Kick Off Meeting (PKOM) process.

  • Assisting in Field Inspections / productivity tracking.

  • Gaining knowledge and assisting with the Materials Requisition System.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience with a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering (preferably from an ABET accredited program)

  • 3+ years of experience with a Master of Science degree in Engineering

  • Professional Engineer License, preferred

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.

How this job compares

Set against the 5,170 open Project Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Georgia median$103–161K/yr56 salary ranges
  • US median$36–47/hr274 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 126 open Project Engineer jobs in Georgia and 5,170 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Georgia
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Project Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (3,992 postings).
Education
3,179 of the 5,170 open Project Engineer jobs (61%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 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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