--- title: Deputy Engineering Leader at M.C. Dean in Richmond, VA description: M.C. Dean is hiring for the Deputy Engineering Leader role in Richmond, VA. Pays $93.8K–$117.3K per year. See the full description and apply. type: job url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/deputy-engineering-leader-at-mc-dean-01a120cc-b8e6-7fbb-ae4e-abf61057f3e0 date: 2026-11-15T01:26:44Z og_description: Join M.C. Dean as Deputy Engineering Leader in Richmond, VA. Pays $93.8K–$117.3K per year. Full-time, on-site role. og_image: https://www.foundrole.com/og/xkxs9n.png breadcrumbs: - label: Home url: https://www.foundrole.com/ - label: Search url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs --- | | | |---|---| | **Company** | [M.C. Dean](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/mc-dean?utm_source=ai_markdown) | | **Location** | Richmond, VA | | **Salary** | $93.8K/yr - $117.3K/yr | | **Type** | Full Time | | **Posted** | Oct 09, 2026 | ## Is this job real? **Ghost job check:** B · Low risk. Probably a real opening. ## Visa sponsorship - **H-1B:** M.C. Dean sponsors H-1B visas. It filed 51 H-1B petitions (FY2026 Q1 – FY2026 Q4). - **E-Verify:** No E-Verify enrollment on record for M.C. Dean. ## Pay for similar jobs Most similar jobs pay $110,000 – $141,000 a year (median $124,000). ## Description Overview **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, 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 8,500 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 M.C. Dean? Our people are inspired by the way engineering and innovation enhance customer outcomes, improve lives, and change the world for the better. We are driven by our core values of agility, expertise, and trust. 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 - Leading complex technical discussions, projects, and/or programs. - Validating world class technical solutions on projects. - Ensuring engineering best practices are followed across multiple engineering and solution disciplines. - Managing technical risk on a project. - Providing oversight, direction, and technical expertise to engineering teams on a project. - Leading an engineering discipline to develop new and upcoming engineers and technical experts. - Preparing client-specific solutions. - Driving the development and maintenance of project artifacts that are required to ensure success for a project. - Identifying, recommending, and implementing work process improvements. - Reviewing technical project details with project leadership. - Managing the integration of data from multiple company systems and analyzing the data to draw insights on project technical solution. - Ensuring safety regulations are adhered to and issues identified and resolved. - Maintaining a positive, assertive relationship with project engineers to achieve project milestones and overall project success. Qualifications **Minimum Experience:** - 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. - Detailed, motivated, self-starter; must be able to work independently and lead in a team environment. **Preferred Qualifications:** - **Design**: background in design and engineering of mission critical facilities. Skill in calculations for electrical construction - **Build**: interest in the manufacture of modular builds for electrical construction - **Delivery**: serving as onsite liaison, overseeing installation, testing, & commission of electrical construction - **PE** **License**: willingness to obtain Professional Engineer license highly preferred - **Software**: Revit MEP, Navisworks, Bluebeam, MS Office, ETAP/SKM, AGI32, etc highly 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. Pay Range USD $93,840.00 - USD $117,300.00 /Yr. ## Skills - Safety Regulations Compliance - Construction - Self-Motivation - Mechanical Electrical And Plumbing (Mep) Systems - ETAP - Professional Engineer - Bluebeam Revu - Revit MEP - Autodesk Navisworks - Critical Facilities - AGi32 - Manual Dexterity - Microsoft Office - Leadership - Maintenance - Writing ## Related - [More jobs at M.C. 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