Project Leader 2

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 mission-critical facilities, secure environments, complex infrastructure, and global enterprises. With over 9,000 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.
 

We are seeking a Project Leader 2 – Energy & Utility / Power Plant Construction to lead the delivery of utility-grade integrated power systems for mission-critical, industrial, and utility customers. This role provides full lifecycle engineering and construction leadership across pre-construction planning, proposal development, estimating, engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, startup, and closeout, with accountability for safe, predictable, and scalable execution.

 

The Project Leader 2 will manage behind-the-meter and grid-connected generation and utility infrastructure projects, including gas turbine, reciprocating internal combustion engine, combined cycle, simple cycle, balance-of-plant, and related interconnection scope. The role requires strong multidisciplinary leadership, technical credibility, and commercial judgment, along with the ability to coordinate clients, utilities, ISO/RTO entities, OEMs, subcontractors, internal teams, and field leadership through real-world utility, fuel, and schedule constraints.

 

As part of M.C. Dean’s Engineering and Construction business unit, this position supports a growing portfolio of projects delivering automated, secure, resilient, and sustainable power and technology systems for mission-critical data centers, industrial facilities, and utility-scale energy infrastructure. The role is intended to strengthen repeatable delivery capability across the power business while supporting long-term growth in generation, interconnection, and adjacent energy technologies.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the installation of electronic security systems at multiple facilities throughout the United States.
• Establish and implement procedures and controls to ensure that security installation projects are completed on time and within budget.
• Manage project site managers and supervisors.
• Interface with customer personnel and respond to their issues and concerns. Manage subcontractors and oversee their performance.
• Perform site security surveys and conduct design reviews.
• Prepare installation proposals and schedules.
• Oversee warranty service for completed installations.
• Prepare status reports and briefings.
• Identify change orders and ensuring effective resolution.
• Price, track and manage change orders.
• Plan and monitor cash flow against cash expenses.
• Maintain as-builts as work is completed.
• Document project issues/conditions.
• Plan and execute project completion and punch list.
• Develop specific goals and plans to prioritize organize, and accomplish your work.
• Read and interpret blue prints and project specifications.
• Research and compile submittals; pricing change orders and prepare estimates for partially designed projects by finishing the design and preparing a complete project estimate.
• Confer with supervisory personnel, owners, contractors, and design professionals to discuss and resolve matters such as work procedures, complaints, and construction problems.
• Communicate with people outside the Company, representing the Company to customers, the public, the government, and general contractor representatives.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Construction Management, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math, Physics, or a related technical field required. Engineering degree from an ABET-accredited program preferred.

• 10+ years of experience leading engineering, construction, or project delivery efforts in power generation, utility infrastructure, or heavy industrial markets.

• Demonstrated experience managing large-scale gas turbine, utility power plant, mission-critical power, or heavy industrial construction projects.
• Experience with projects involving natural gas-fired generation, gas turbines, reciprocating internal combustion engines, simple cycle, combined cycle, or distributed energy systems.

• Strong technical understanding of generation and balance-of-plant systems, including substations, switchyards, HRSGs, steam systems, fuel gas systems, cooling systems, piping, and related utility infrastructure.

• Strong knowledge of construction sequencing, project controls, scheduling, cost control, and resource planning.
• Proficiency with project scheduling systems such as Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, or similar tools.
• Ability to develop project schedules, resource-loaded plans, work packages, and project execution plans.

• Ability to estimate project work, support proposal development, and prepare customer-facing project documentation with strong commercial awareness.

• Understanding of critical path analysis and the ability to identify potential project schedule, cost, resource, and execution issues.
• Strong knowledge of procurement processes, including supplier evaluation, purchasing of technical goods and services, long-lead equipment tracking, and subcontractor coordination.
• Experience managing subcontractors, suppliers, OEMs, and multidisciplinary construction teams.
• Familiarity with permitting, inspections, environmental compliance, regulatory requirements, and site safety programs.
• Ability to create and manage technical documentation, including design documents, project artifacts, reference libraries, reports, and closeout documentation.
• Executive-level communication, presentation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong team-building, leadership, decision-making, and accountability skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in power generation, utility infrastructure, mission-critical power, or heavy industrial project delivery.
• Proven experience leading large, complex capital projects with significant stakeholder, commercial, and execution accountability.

• Experience with EPC, design-build, or balance-of-plant delivery models.
• Experience with fast-track, phased, or mission-critical projects, including peaker plants, data center power systems, or behind-the-meter generation.
• Strong knowledge of finance systems as they relate to project budgets, cost codes, forecasting, and project controls.
• Understanding of earned value analysis and its application to project management.
• Proficiency with automated cost and schedule management systems.
• PMP certification or equivalent project management credential.
• OSHA 30 or equivalent safety certification.
• Experience working on both union and non-union construction sites.

• Knowledge of adjacent and emerging power technologies, including battery energy storage integration, hybrid power plants, distributed energy resources, and hydrogen-ready generation systems.

• International project experience is a plus.

Leadership Expectations

• Set the standard for safe, disciplined, and decisive execution in complex, schedule-driven project environments.
• Lead across organizational boundaries by aligning engineering, procurement, construction, utility, and client stakeholders around clear priorities and delivery outcomes.
• Demonstrate executive presence, strong judgment, and accountability in managing scope, risk, schedule, cost, and quality.
• Drive results through a consistent focus on safety, customer confidence, commercial performance, and operational readiness.
• Communicate with authority and clarity across executive leadership, customers, field teams, engineering teams, subcontractors, utilities, OEMs, and regulatory stakeholders.
• Use project data and field insight to anticipate issues, make timely decisions, and improve repeatability across the power portfolio.

Build trust with clients and internal teams by resolving conflicts constructively, maintaining alignment, and delivering on commitments.

 

 

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.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Construction Management, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math, Physics, or a related technical field required. Engineering degree from an ABET-accredited program preferred.

• 10+ years of experience leading engineering, construction, or project delivery efforts in power generation, utility infrastructure, or heavy industrial markets.

• Demonstrated experience managing large-scale gas turbine, utility power plant, mission-critical power, or heavy industrial construction projects.
• Experience with projects involving natural gas-fired generation, gas turbines, reciprocating internal combustion engines, simple cycle, combined cycle, or distributed energy systems.

• Strong technical understanding of generation and balance-of-plant systems, including substations, switchyards, HRSGs, steam systems, fuel gas systems, cooling systems, piping, and related utility infrastructure.

• Strong knowledge of construction sequencing, project controls, scheduling, cost control, and resource planning.
• Proficiency with project scheduling systems such as Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, or similar tools.
• Ability to develop project schedules, resource-loaded plans, work packages, and project execution plans.

• Ability to estimate project work, support proposal development, and prepare customer-facing project documentation with strong commercial awareness.

• Understanding of critical path analysis and the ability to identify potential project schedule, cost, resource, and execution issues.
• Strong knowledge of procurement processes, including supplier evaluation, purchasing of technical goods and services, long-lead equipment tracking, and subcontractor coordination.
• Experience managing subcontractors, suppliers, OEMs, and multidisciplinary construction teams.
• Familiarity with permitting, inspections, environmental compliance, regulatory requirements, and site safety programs.
• Ability to create and manage technical documentation, including design documents, project artifacts, reference libraries, reports, and closeout documentation.
• Executive-level communication, presentation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong team-building, leadership, decision-making, and accountability skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in power generation, utility infrastructure, mission-critical power, or heavy industrial project delivery.
• Proven experience leading large, complex capital projects with significant stakeholder, commercial, and execution accountability.

• Experience with EPC, design-build, or balance-of-plant delivery models.
• Experience with fast-track, phased, or mission-critical projects, including peaker plants, data center power systems, or behind-the-meter generation.
• Strong knowledge of finance systems as they relate to project budgets, cost codes, forecasting, and project controls.
• Understanding of earned value analysis and its application to project management.
• Proficiency with automated cost and schedule management systems.
• PMP certification or equivalent project management credential.
• OSHA 30 or equivalent safety certification.
• Experience working on both union and non-union construction sites.

• Knowledge of adjacent and emerging power technologies, including battery energy storage integration, hybrid power plants, distributed energy resources, and hydrogen-ready generation systems.

• International project experience is a plus.

Leadership Expectations

• Set the standard for safe, disciplined, and decisive execution in complex, schedule-driven project environments.
• Lead across organizational boundaries by aligning engineering, procurement, construction, utility, and client stakeholders around clear priorities and delivery outcomes.
• Demonstrate executive presence, strong judgment, and accountability in managing scope, risk, schedule, cost, and quality.
• Drive results through a consistent focus on safety, customer confidence, commercial performance, and operational readiness.
• Communicate with authority and clarity across executive leadership, customers, field teams, engineering teams, subcontractors, utilities, OEMs, and regulatory stakeholders.
• Use project data and field insight to anticipate issues, make timely decisions, and improve repeatability across the power portfolio.

Build trust with clients and internal teams by resolving conflicts constructively, maintaining alignment, and delivering on commitments.

 

 

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.

• Oversee the installation of electronic security systems at multiple facilities throughout the United States.
• Establish and implement procedures and controls to ensure that security installation projects are completed on time and within budget.
• Manage project site managers and supervisors.
• Interface with customer personnel and respond to their issues and concerns. Manage subcontractors and oversee their performance.
• Perform site security surveys and conduct design reviews.
• Prepare installation proposals and schedules.
• Oversee warranty service for completed installations.
• Prepare status reports and briefings.
• Identify change orders and ensuring effective resolution.
• Price, track and manage change orders.
• Plan and monitor cash flow against cash expenses.
• Maintain as-builts as work is completed.
• Document project issues/conditions.
• Plan and execute project completion and punch list.
• Develop specific goals and plans to prioritize organize, and accomplish your work.
• Read and interpret blue prints and project specifications.
• Research and compile submittals; pricing change orders and prepare estimates for partially designed projects by finishing the design and preparing a complete project estimate.
• Confer with supervisory personnel, owners, contractors, and design professionals to discuss and resolve matters such as work procedures, complaints, and construction problems.
• Communicate with people outside the Company, representing the Company to customers, the public, the government, and general contractor representatives.