New

Principal Engineer

M.C. Dean

Mar 13, 2026
Overview About Modular Mission Critical ModularMission Critical is the manufacturing campus for M.C. Dean's complex, modular product line for datacenters and critical infrastructure. Located just north of Richmond, VA, this site is growing fast serving customers worldwide. Important openings include assemblers for our production lines and engineers and designers for products and continuous improvement. Join M.C. Dean's more than 9,000 employees around the world making an impact through innovations in power and technology. Why Join Us? Our people are passionate about 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 for employees to build long-term careers. An ideal candidate will have managed the technical aspects of the engineering, procurement, and construction for the delivery of electrical systems for mission critical facilities. They provide engineering leadership for the functional, physical, commissioning and project engineering disciplines, as well as being responsible for client ownership, engineering finances and engineering meetings. The Principal Engineer is responsible for supporting the projects range from $50 to an excess of $200+ million, with square footage of 500,000 to 800,000, and 30-400 people depending on a project's stage. Responsibilities Responsibilities: Leading complex technical discussions, projects, and/or programs. Validating world class technical solutions on projects. Ensuring engineering best practices are followed across multiple engineering and solution disciplines. Managing technical risk on a project. Support manufacturing lines to keep production on schedule which includes but not limited to resolving design or part defects and using standard processes to implement changes. Providing oversight, direction, and technical expertise to engineering teams on a project. Leading an engineering discipline to develop new and upcoming engineers and technical experts. Preparing client-specific solutions. Driving the development and maintenance of project artifacts that are required to ensure success for a project. Identifying, recommending, and implementing work process improvements. Reviewing technical project details with project leadership. Managing the integration of data from multiple company systems and analyzing the data to draw insights on project technical solution. Ensuring safety regulations are adhered to and issues identified and resolved. Maintaining a positive, assertive relationship with project engineers to achieve project milestones and overall project success. Must be available and willing to work 1st or 2nd shit one weekend per month. Must be available and willing to work 1st or 2nd shift one weekend per month. Qualifications Minimum Experience: Minimum 7+ year's recent experience in the Minimum Experience: Minimum 7+ year's recent experience in the manufacturing industry with a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, 5+ year's recent experience in the manufacturing industry with a Master's Degree in Engineering. Detailed, motivated, self-starter; must be able to work independently and lead in a team environment. industry with a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, 5+ year's recent experience in the manufacturing industry with a Master's Degree in Engineering. Detailed, motivated, self-starter; must be able to work independently and lead in a team environment. Preferred Qualifications: Design: background in design and engineering of mission critical facilities. Skill in calculations for electrical construction Build: interest in the manufacture of modular builds for electrical construction Delivery: serving as onsite liaison, overseeing installation, testing, & commission of electrical construction PELicense: willingness to obtain Professional Engineer license highly preferred Software: Revit MEP, Navisworks, Bluebeam, MS Office, ETAP/SKM, AGI32, etc highly preferred 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.