Electrical Maintenance Technician - Charlottesville, VA

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. The company’s capabilities include electrical, electronic security, telecommunications, life safety, automation and controls, audio visual, and IT systems. M.C. Dean is headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, and employs more than 5,800 professionals who engineer and deploy automated, secure, and resilient power and technology systems;

and deliver the management platforms essential for long‑term system sustainability.

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.

Clearance Requirement:
Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements, including U.S. Citizenship, for access to classified information; minimum secret clearance required with ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Poly Security Clearance required.

License/Certification Requirement:
Applicants selected must hold a state issued Journeyman License.

Responsible for ensuring that all electrical, mechanical, and fire/life safety equipment within the project site are operating at peak efficiency. This involves both planned preventative maintenance of equipment, daily corrective work, and emergency response to emergent issues. The technician serves as an expert technical resource reporting to a program manager, interacting with Onsite Engineering Operations (OEO) and any third‑party vendors. Project site equipment supports mission‑critical systems that must maintain better than 99.999% uptime.

• Render assistance in administration and regulation of the duties of junior technicians and provide oversight of contractors’ roles for electrical duties.
• Analyze systems requirements, conducts research on equipment and procedures and recommends modifications to new and existing systems. Installs new units or replacement parts for existing units according to specifications and established safety guidelines, relies on MOPs, manufacturer's literature, and industry best practices to perform tasks.
• Utilizes safe working practices; can apply lockout/tagout, MSDS, applies good housekeeping methods, etc. Ability to type and utilize common administrative and office software.
• Troubleshoot, repair and make modifications to malfunctioning electronic units like the printed circuit boards, set-up sensing mechanisms, and advanced electrical circuits.
• Performs maintenance, installations, and service repairs on critical data center systems, as well as all industrial electrical equipment and systems that include power distribution components/wiring, electronic components and lighting systems throughout the data center campus, to ensure efficient operation. Capable of utilizing appropriate test equipment, including infrared scanning and vibration analyzing meter, to perform system and equipment diagnostics. Ensures activities are logged in CMMS.
• When necessary, perform daily walk‑through of facility documenting parameters such as power availability, temperature and humidity, alarm status, etc. to be catalogued and compared for identification of discrepancies and trends. Monitor and make necessary changes to site BAS, following site MOP's & SOP's.
• Manages mechanical and electrical systems in emergency situations including HVAC components, power distribution equipment, generator systems, load transfer and control systems, UPS systems, DC power systems, fire and life safety.
• Identify required materials and parts for maintenance and repair; prepares and presents cost estimates for parts, equipment, and supplies for proposed installation or repairs to facilitate procurement.
• Maintain relationship with all major vendor accounts.
• Schedule, coordinate, and oversee all critical environment vendors during maintenance, emergency, and break/fix events to ensure personnel safety and maintain…