Position Overview:

M.C. Dean is looking for a Design Manager to lead the group through the next phase of its evolution and growth located in Tysons, VA. The Critical Infrastructure Solutionsteam is responsible for providing turnkey multidiscipline solutions for our Critical Mission and Mission Critical customers with an emphasis on Modular Delivery of those solutions.

Position Expectations:

The 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.

·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.

·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.

·Act as the authority and escalation resource for issues and problem resolution in the above and related areas.

Education & Qualifications Required:

·Minimum 7 Years of experience within Building architecture & architectural engineering design management is required.

·Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Architecture, Architectural Engineering or other technical area(s).

·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).

Desired Qualifications:

• DBIA and PMP Certification 

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.