System Specialist, Associate

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 9,000 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 innovative engineering that improves lives and drives impactful change. Guided by our core values—agility, expertise, and trust— we foster a collaborative, forward-thinking work environment. At M.C. Dean, we are committed to developing the next generation of technical leaders across our electrical, engineering, and technology disciplines. This role offers a direct path into project operations, giving you hands‑on experience with the systems, data, and workflows that power large‑scale data center construction.

The Systems Specialist is an embedded project support role that sits at the intersection of data management, construction operations, and technology. You will work directly within our data center project teams to configure and maintain Infra Link – M.C. Dean’s project execution platform – to ensure work breakdown structures, standard work, and schedules are accurately maintained, and serve as the embedded liaison between project teams and the Infra Link group.

This is a role for someone who is analytically inclined, process driven, and eager to grow in the construction delivery environment. Prior experience in the construction or contracting industry is a plus.

• Apply established Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to represent the Level 4-5 WBS across Engineering, Physical Design, Manufacturing, Construction, and Commissioning phases.
• Partner with project teams to develop the project-specific Level 4-5 WBS by:
• Evaluating project scope and mapping it to the catalog of standard work, including standardized workflows and schedule alignment.
• Identifying non-standard scope and coordinating with Operations and Infra Link leadership to document and develop a management approach.
• Identify and sequence system boundaries for each feature of work in accordance with established guidelines.
• Review and QC incremental physical and logical design uploads; ensure alignment with the WBS, naming conventions, and data attribute assignment.

• Configure the Infra Link System Hierarchy to represent Level 1-3 of the project WBS using established standards.
• Provide day‑to‑day application support to project teams, including data uploads, workflow execution, report generation, and general system usage and adoption.
• Configure project workflows and generate work packages in accordance with established standards.
• Monitor Earned Value metrics and enable near real‑time scheduled activity percent completion tracking.
• Synchronize schedule attributes between Infra Link and the project master P6 schedule; support near real‑time bi‑directional updates.
• Analyze project schedules against published project WBS.
• Prepare and present updates at weekly and monthly project meetings.

• Document and develop recommendations for improving configuration standards across projects.
• Serve as the project-embedded liaison to the Infra Link software group: author technical requirements, participate in solution testing, and support deployment of software improvements to your projects.

• Bachelors Degree in Science – Preferably in an Engineering related discipline
• 0+ years experience in the field of construction operations and/or design roles
• Experience with enterprise systems including CMMS (e.g., Maximo), Work Order management, or ERP platforms (e.g., SAP, Oracle); understanding of how these systems support operational workflows.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Excel, including large-scale data validation, cleanup, and transformation…