Telecommunications Engineer 1 - New College Grad (South HIll, VA)

Overview --------

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. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, M.C. Dean performs work throughout the United States and Europe, including integrated regional offices in Baltimore, MD; Charleston, SC; Atlanta, GA; Tampa, FL; Houston & Dallas, TX; Santa Clara, CA; Portland, OR; and Stuttgart, Germany.

M.C. Dean delivers multi-disciplinary systems engineering for electrical, electronic security, telecommunications, life-safety, instrumentation and control, and command and control systems; and provides machine-to-machine communications, and physical and cybersecurity services to clients across six continents. We are trusted by Fortune 100 global enterprises, data centers and top defense, civilian, and intelligence agencies, to design, build, operate and maintain their most mission critical systems.

Engineers who join M.C. Deans technical team have the opportunity to actively innovate and apply their technical skills in a multitude of ways. You have the opportunity to work on client sites and in our engineering solutioning labs, which serve as an extensive testing environment for our customers with virtual servers, hardware, software and equipment for remote testing of access control, intrusion detection, facial recognition, and environmental data analysis. M.C. Dean is also an innovator in the design and delivery of large-scale modular systems led out of the companys manufacturing center in Virginia. Engineers have the opportunity to develop their career paths as desired to develop a broad and highly advanced set of technical skills across the companys integrated business units.

This job posting is focused on the identification of engineering graduates interested in a fast-paced, team-oriented and collaborative workplace environment with specific applications in Power, Mechanical, Security, Systems, and Software. The work that shapes you, also shapes the world. We are seeking new candidates driven to excellence and inspired to build a smarter, more sustainable, and connected future.

Responsibilities ----------------

### Project Engineer Responsibilities

The project engineer shall perform the requirements of the physical engineering role while also supporting the project engineer performing in the functional engineering role.

#### Functional Engineering

• Support project leadership by ensuring operational needs are met in design documentation (ex. Interpretting device layouts in Shop Drawings to ensure the project scope is clear, confirming test requirements in commissioning plans are clearly identified to ensure the correct tests will be performed, identifying the products needed to ensure the correct products are being purchased, etc.)
• Support field installation teams by ensuring operational needs are met in design documentation (ex. Interpretting details in Shop Drawings to ensure the field installers can mount and assemble the devices, confirming test procedures are clearly defined in commissioning plans to ensure the field installers can perform the tests accurately, identifying the products on site match the product data submittal for the field to build with, etc.)
• Communicate effectively with the project's Functional Engineer and other stakeholders to facilitate project progress and address technical challenges.

#### Physical Engineering

• Assist the project leader with risk management, change management, tracking subcontractor deliverables, scheduling, ordering and receiving project materials, etc.
• Assist the superintendent with troubleshooting commissioning process issues, tracking manpower, tracking 3rd party installation predecessors/successors/dependencies that affect the telecom work, ordering and receiving labels.
• Write Request for Information questions to the customer or designer.
• Create and update the project installation plan in InfraLink to manage the installation. Update and status installation & commissioning progress, initiate and track trouble tickets, etc.
• Conduct quality control inspections of 3rd party predecessors/successors/dependencies that affect the telecommunications installation to ensure compliance with standards.
• Conduct quality control inspections of the telecommunications installation to ensure compliance with standards.
• Coordinate commissioning work to include, but not limited to, setting up Test IDs, tracking testing progress, reviewing test results, and submitting data for warranty.
• Produce engineering closeout documentation as part of project completion.
• Support the Project Leader and Superintendent in the commissioning and documentation process.

Qualifications --------------

### Job Requirements

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