Deputy Engineering Leader
Dulles, VAJob$104–130K/yrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Job overview
M.C. Dean seeks a Deputy Engineering Leader to provide technical leadership for electrical systems on mission-critical facility projects. The role supports projects ranging from $50 million to more than $200 million and involves electrical, power, and modular design. The leader oversees engineering disciplines, technical risk, client-specific solutions, and project delivery; expertise in industrialized construction processes is preferred.
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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 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.
An ideal candidate will have managed the technical aspects of the engineering, procurement, and construction for the delivery of electrical systems for mission critical facilities. They provide engineering leadership for the functional, physical, commissioning and project engineering disciplines, as well as being responsible for client ownership, engineering finances and engineering meetings.
The Deputy Engineering Leader is responsible for supporting the projects range from $50 to an excess of $200+ million, with square footage of 500,000 to 800,000, and 30-400 people depending on a project’s stage. This is a technical leadership role rather than management of personnel. A deputy engineering leader will be involved with electrical, power, and modular design. Ideally, they are experts in industrialized construction processes.
Responsibilities
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Leading complex technical discussions, projects, and/or programs.
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Validating world class technical solutions on projects.
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Ensuring engineering best practices are followed across multiple engineering and solution disciplines.
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Managing technical risk on a project.
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Providing oversight, direction, and technical expertise to engineering teams on a project.
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Leading an engineering discipline to develop new and upcoming engineers and technical experts.
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Preparing client-specific solutions.
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Driving the development and maintenance of project artifacts that are required to ensure success for a project.
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Identifying, recommending, and implementing work process improvements.
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Reviewing technical project details with project leadership.
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Managing the integration of data from multiple company systems and analyzing the data to draw insights on project technical solution.
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Ensuring safety regulations are adhered to and issues identified and resolved.
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Maintaining a positive, assertive relationship with project engineers to achieve project milestones and overall project success.
Qualifications
Minimum Experience:
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Minimum 5+ year’s recent experience in the construction industry with a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, 3+ year’s recent experience in the construction industry with a Master's Degree in Engineering.
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Detailed, motivated, self-starter; must be able to work independently and lead in a team environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
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Design : background in design and engineering of mission critical facilities. Skill in calculations for electrical construction
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Build : interest in the manufacture of modular builds for electrical construction
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Delivery : serving as onsite liaison, overseeing installation, testing, & commission of electrical construction
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PE License : willingness to obtain Professional Engineer license highly preferred
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Software : Revit MEP, Navisworks, Bluebeam, MS Office, ETAP/SKM, AGI32, etc highly preferred
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.
We offer an excellent benefits package including:
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A competitive salary
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Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
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Paid time off
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Tuition reimbursement
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401k Retirement Plan
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Military Reserve pay offset
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Paid maternity leave
Pay Range
USD $104,240.00 - USD $130,300.00 /Yr.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,318 open Engineering Leadership jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 13, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$104–130K/yr
- Virginia median$163–241K/yr72 salary ranges
- US median$182–306K/yr1,933 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $117K, is 43% below the Virginia median midpoint ($206K) — in the lowest quarter of Engineering Leadership salary ranges in Virginia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 79 open Engineering Leadership jobs in Virginia and 2,318 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
- Oracle12 open
- M. C. Dean (this employer)8 open
- Capital One5 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience — less than three in four Engineering Leadership postings that state a minimum ask for (median 10 years, across 1,818 postings).
- Education
- 728 of the 2,318 open Engineering Leadership jobs (31%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 13, 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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