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System Specialist, Associate

M.C. Dean
United States, Virginia, Leesburg
Aug 22, 2025
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 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. Responsibilities Job Responsibilities Work with the project site team to develop the Level 4-5 WBS for the project: Evaluate the project scope and map it to the established catalog of standard features of work (with standardized workflows and planning methods) Proactively identify non-standard work and engage with the Ops and InfraLink leadership to develop an approach to handling such non-standard scope For each feature of work, identify, appropriately size (based on established guidelines), and sequence system boundaries (construction areas) Quantify the scope of work in each of the established system boundaries Using established standards, configure InfraLink system hierarchy to represents the project's Level 1-3 WBS Apply established InfraLink system hierarchy and visual artifacts (SPLNX drawings) standards (system hierarchy structure, naming conventions, data attributes and naming conventions) to represent the Levels 4-5 WBS (features of work per system boundaries) for Engineering, Physical Design, Manufacturing, Construction, and Commissioning Apply established standards to configure the workflow for the projects and generate work packages Apply established standards to synchronize schedule attributes (milestone target dates and work durations) in InfraLink with the projects P6 schedule; ensure near-real time bidirectional updates, including Pushing due dates from P6 to InfraLink Pushing progress / completion information from InfraLink to P6 Review and QC incremental scope uploads (e.g., SPLNX files produced by spooling for each feature of work and system boundary), ensure their alignment with the WBS, composition, level of details, and proper naming, as well as data attribute assignment (e.g., FOW/scope element type, place in the hierarchy, BOM, etc.). Provide application support to project teams, including data uploads, workflow execution, report generation, etc. Identify project setup and progress issues, develop recommendations for improving the configuration standards. Perform performance analysis and use InfraLink data to analyze planning and performance deficiencies, extract typical lead times, estimating data, identify bottlenecks, etc. Review and monitor Earned Value metrics and enable near real-time scheduled activity percent completion. Prepare and present at weekly and monthly project meetings. Apply established "Standard Work" to applicable WBS specific Product Catalog. Qualifications Qualification In-depth understanding of construction workflow, modular delivery value stream, key categories of work performed by MC Dean, their interdependencies and associated processes. 0+ years of progressive experience in the field operations and/or design roles, such as project engineer, deputy project leader, design manager, or comparable with a Bachelor's degree. Exceptional analytical, communication, and collaboration skills; ability to act in the "servant leader" capacity and assist in reinforcing best practices by sharing expertise and influencing planning decisions through knowledge and ability to deliver rapid improvements. Excellent planning and documentation management skills to facilitate collaboration in the fast-paced environment across multiple teams and categories of stakeholders. Advanced proficiency with critical applications including, but not limited to InfraLink, MS Excel, Oracle P6, MS PowerBI; ability to perform large-scale data validation, clean-up, and transformation using automated functions. Working knowledge of drawings standards; ability to read engineering and construction plans, and to perform drawing management functions using Autodesk Revit and AutoCAD tools. 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.