Company 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. 

As an employee at M.C. Dean, you will join forces with more than 3,600 professionals who engineer and deploy automated, secure, and resilient power and technology systems; and deliver the management platforms essential for long-term system sustainability.

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. Dean's technical team can actively innovate and apply their technical skills in a multitude of ways. You can 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 company's manufacturing center in Virginia. Engineers can develop their career paths as desired to develop a broad and highly advanced set of technical skills across the company's integrated business units. 

Position Description:

The Project Controls Associate designates work to be done and specified deadlines for completing tasks and deliverables. Full use and application of standard theories, concepts, and techniques in a specialized field. Responsible for aiding, tracking, monitoring status, controlling and issue resolution throughout the project’s life cycle. Provides solutions to a variety of problems. What to do is defined but hot to do it is left up to the individual.

Position Responsibilities:

·Providing project planning and scheduling documentation to support project and customer requirements.

·Providing planning and scheduling support for in-house or on-site work as required.

·Assisting Team Leads, Superintendents and the Project and Program Managers in tracking the projects against baseline schedules and budgets.

·Preparing periodic management and/or customer reports and presentations as required.

·Assisting on project proposal teams.

·Prior to project start, creating and revising preliminary master schedules, detailing the sequence of all work to be performed.

·Assisting Project Manager in maintaining Master schedule for each project, identifying, and recording the impact of work performed and not performed as scheduled.

·Evaluating actual progress and providing regular schedule updates.

·Interfacing with Operations to discuss impact of work and resolution of problems.

·Contributing to the development of working schedules for Estimating, prior to proposal date, which sufficiently illustrate the sequence of work activities and contract time.

·Assist in preparing and issuing proposals and preliminary schedule.

·Incorporating Resource and/or Cost Loading data into schedules as required.

·Consulting appropriate project team members and estimating procedures as a means of ensuring that proper planning is completed prior to the commencement of work.

·Assisting Project Managers in creating short-term schedules, monitoring such schedules to determine impact on master schedule, and helping in formulating actions to correct scheduling problems.

·Providing information as needed on the content, modification, or presentation of project schedule.

·Remaining current on the advancements in scheduling software.

·Continuously expanding and updating professional knowledge and honing training skills to enhance individual and team innovation and productivity.

·Aiding Project Managers and others as required with incorporation of fragments in Project Schedule.

·Schedules and tracks equipment maintenance using CMMS software.

Education & Experience Qualifications:

·0-2 years of experience with a Bachelor's Degree or Master’s Degree in a related field.

·US Citizenship required.

Preferred Experience (Not Required):

·Project Management Software (PM Online) – In-house Software.

·eCMS (internal)

·CMMS software

·Primavera P6 software

Abilities:

·Exposure to computer screens for an extended period.

·Sitting for extended periods of time.

·Reach by extending hands or arms in any direction.

·Have finger dexterity 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.