Fire Alarm Engineer - Safety Group; Tysons, VA

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.

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.

Engineer 3 manages all engineering aspects of fire detection and alarm and suppression projects, and oversaw aspects of the work from others. Engineering activities include requirements design and shop drawing design, commissioning, and construction project close‑out activities for life safety projects, which include educational, federal, transit, healthcare and information technology equipment (data center) verticals, among others.

• Develop engineering plan and implement design of life safety projects (detection, suppression and containment).
• Develop and implement commissioning and testing plans.
• Provide cost estimating for multiple projects, including schedule inputs for engineering tasks related to design, manufacturing and commissioning.
• Conduct surveys to define scope and conceptual design from existing buildings.
• Provide ongoing site support to the system installation teams.
• Mentor junior engineers.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering in Fire Protection, Industrial, Mechanical, Electrical or related discipline; 5+ years of experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity.
• Licensed Professional Engineer.

• Use of Pyrosim software.
• Use of EVAC software.
• NICET III or NICET IV in fire detection and alarm.
• NICET in sprinkler or suppression.
• Strong oral, written and presentation skills.
• Background working with multidisciplinary teams.
• Time management and organization skills to meet deadlines and quality objectives.
• Strong MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint skills.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 25% of the time.

• 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.
• Finger dexterity to manipulate objects such as 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.