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.
Deputy Quality Engineer Leader Overview
The Deputy Quality Engineer Leader is responsible for following the M.C. Dean Quality Control (QC) Program to achieve and verify quality expectations for a durable and reliable installation. This role is responsible for performing field inspections to ensure work is in compliance with all safety policies and procedures. The role involves documenting, implementing and managing a quality control plan on the project.
Responsibilities
- Contract document review for compliance: RFP, specs, drawings, submittals, etc.
- Review design documents for constructability and contract compliance.
- Implement 3‑Phase Quality Control approach: preparatory meetings, initial inspections, and follow‑up inspections for all applicable definable features of work.
- Create detailed project‑specific installation checklists for field workers.
- Perform inspections on all work performed in detail, efficiently, and in conjunction with Owner/QC.
- Collect data, analyze for continuous improvement, and share with the project team weekly.
- Participate in daily safety meetings to discuss quality issues and concerns.
- Attend all required project meetings to provide resolution to any quality issues from Owner/QC.
- Manage and assist in resolving all quality or commissioning punch‑lists.
- Directly interface with GC/Owner to ensure requirements are understood and communicated to the project team.
Qualifications
- The candidate must have 5+ years of construction experience on projects similar to the relevant contract and a bachelor’s degree in engineering.
- Extensive knowledge of USACE/NAVFAC 3‑Phase Quality Control System, experience on military bases, government contracts.
- Journeyman's electrical license, preferred, and graduate from a certified apprenticeship program, preferred.
- Must pass a basic background check.
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.