Overview

Transitioning Military Service Members

M.C. Dean offers Transitioning Military Service Members the opportunity to participate in cohorts through SkillBridge internships.

About M.C. DeanM.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 M.C. Dean? Our people are inspired by the way engineering and innovation enhance customer outcomes, improve lives, and change the world for the better. We are driven by our core values of agility, expertise, and trust.

Responsibilities

The SFST will demonstrate extensive experience in at least four of the system lifecycle phases such as design, installation, integration, commissioning, configuration, customization, monitoring, repair, patching, upgrading, or maintenance of hardware and software systems associated with facility operations.

• Performs design, modification, preventative and corrective maintenance, and repair of critical electrical, environmental, energy support systems, and associated highly sensitive state-of-the-art computerized controls and air quality monitoring systems located within U.S.-Only areas of Controlled Access Areas (CAA) and Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (SCIFs). These systems may be commercial or unique to the U.S. Military with no commercial equivalent.
• Provides critical advanced technical knowledge in support of unique security requirements inherent in SCIF operations including electrical and acoustic isolation and countermeasures.
• Serves as the Commander’s representative on facility engineering projects requiring technical analysis of facility support system issues, with special emphasis on evaluating the impact of proposed design changes on unique Intelligence and Electronic Warfare (IEW) equipment employing new scientific technologies.
• Produces classified technical documentation, when appropriate, outlining detailed technical findings and recommendations.
• Performs or participates in site surveys to determine critical facility system requirements and impacts on the surrounding community.
• Performs routine and emergency fault isolation for fire detection and suppression systems, smoke removal systems, and life safety systems used exclusively in critical, highly sensitive U.S. military installations.
• Performs system and subsystem diagnostics and scheduling for complex electronic facility and environmental systems.
• Performs and supervises the calibration and testing of unique components and controls that are used to provide and monitor precise environmental conditions within critical facilities housing unique military intelligence equipment, scientific devices, and technologies.
• Provides critical highly skilled technical expertise for emergency fault isolation and resolution of critical IEW electronic environmental control systems and scientific devices.
• Develops engineering and other technical documentation for mission support system layouts.
• Assists with the installation, configuration, testing, and operation of electronic security and monitoring systems as required in CAA and SCIF.
• Assists with the installation, configuration, and testing of IT infrastructure as required to augment other activities.
• Serves as the Construction Surveillance Technician, as required, in accordance with Intelligence Community Standard 705-1 Technical Specifications.
• Familiar with and utilizes U.S. and Host Nation regulations, codes, and standards for facility support systems and infrastructure.
• Develops training programs and conducts user training on appropriate facility support systems.

Qualifications

• MUST BE an active-duty service member who is within his/her 180-day window of separation from the military
• HS Diploma or GED
• 0+ years of commercial Critical Facilities Technician work

Abilities:

• The position requires the ability to lift, carry, and move objects weighing up to [50 pounds] on a regular basis. Candidates must demonstrate physical strength and stamina to perform various tasks, including but not limited to, loading, and unloading, operating equipment, and assisting in the transportation of various materials. Proper lifting techniques and safety protocols must be followed to ensure personal and team safety.
• Relocates a 12-foot stepladder without assistance.
• Works at various heights up to 60 feet and can climb and maintain balance on scaffolds, aerial lifts, catwalks and all types of ladders.
• Walks, climbs, lifts, squats, crawls, kneels, pushes, pulls and reaches overhead on a routine and repetitive basis.
• Possess good vision (may be corrected vision), the ability to see in color, and the ability to hear and communicate in English.
• May use a standard ladder without exceeding the weight limit while carrying tools.
• Tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong.  It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
• Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (including finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
• See details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
• Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.