Assistant Design Manager

Your Future at M.C. Dean

We're seeking people driven to excellence and inspired to have a meaningful impact powering, automating, integrating, and securing the world's most critical infrastructure and facilities. This translates into fulfilling opportunities for employees driven to excel in a meaningful career. As an employee at M.C. Dean, you will join forces with more than 5,800 professionals who engineer and deploy automated, secure and resilient power and technology systems; and deliver the management platforms essential for long-term system sustainability. Together, we transform the way complex, large-scale systems are designed, delivered, and sustained-enhancing client outcomes, improving lives, and changing the world for the better.

M.C. Dean is looking for an Assistant Design Manager to lead the group through the next phase of its evolution and growth located in Tysons, VA.

The Critical Infrastructure Solutions team is responsible for providing turnkey multidiscipline solutions for our Critical Mission and Mission Critical (Data Center) customers with an emphasis on Modular Delivery of those solutions.

Position Expectations:

• The Critical Infrastructure Solutions (CIS) team is a rapidly growing, geographically distributed organization with engineers, designers, and specialists creating those solutions and managing our design partners in procuring those solutions.
• An Assistant Design Manager will supports the Design Manager or program manager by assisting with project management, ensuring design quality, and coordinating with the design and construction team.
• Develop and standardize solutions optimized for manufacturing.
• Develop design concept and delivery approach at the program and project level.
• Develop detailed functional and physical designs.
• Produce supporting calculations, reports, and specifications.
• Manage design multidiscipline design teams.

Position Responsibilities:

• Provide organizational leadership for the large and knowledge-intensive engineering and design operation group, including organizational design and alignment with MCD's job architectures.
• Provide process leadership. Refine, maintain, and enable data-driven structured continuous improvement of design development, product management, workload management, and other critical processes.
• Responsible for leading technical Engineering discussions, providing a clear direction for project-teams and ensuring all programs are prioritized as required.
• Lead solution-driven discussions and validate the quality of project outcomes on a consistent basis.
• Produce contract drawings and specifications consistent with contract requirements and regulations, while adhering to industrial Codes and Standards.
• Address any Architectural Design, Construction, and fabrications issues.
• Responsible for identifying, recommending, and implementing work process improvements as it relates to specific project details to ensure success prior to inception.
• Establish / advance M.C. Dean's design development and continuous improvement practice, including measuring performance and total cost of delivery for the solution designs.
• Drive integration of the Design for Modular Delivery capability with M.C. Dean's engineering, project delivery.
• Assist with leading the development and maintenance of project artifacts that are required to ensure project success outcomes.
• Ensure all Safety regulations are adhered to, and any issues are identified and resolved immediately.

Education & Experience Qualifications:

• Minimum 5+ years of Architecture or related Engineering & Design experience with a Bachelor's Degree in an Architecture or engineering discipline.
• 3+ years of technical Architectural or Engineering & specialty experience with a Master's Degree in an Architecture or engineering discipline.
• Required knowledge within Architecture/Engineering Leadership functions including technical design & engineering abilities, proficiency of applied principles, & prioritization of deliverable deadlines tied to each specialty-trade simultaneously.
• Architecture registration (RA) or Professional Engineering (PE) License in at least one state preferred.
• Proven track record leading a large engineering and design organization with responsibilities comparable to the ones described above.
• Strong organizational leadership/management experience required (management strengths may be more important than advanced technical expertise).
• Ability to obtain a security clearance in the future, if required for the project

Desired Certifications & Experience:

• AutoCAD, Revit & BIM
• LEED Accreditation
• PMP Certification a plus

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.