Design Engineer Staff

M.C. Dean, Inc•Caroline County , MD

About The Position

The Staff Design Engineer performs routine design engineering work for an assigned scope, using established tools, templates, methods, guidance, and defined scope boundaries. The role applies discipline knowledge, engineering codes and standards, specifications, and company practices to design tasks and decisions. It produces design deliverables with growing independence and contributes to design quality, coordination, field support, testing, commissioning, and operational readiness.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical field.
At least 2 years of relevant design engineering experience.
Working knowledge of discipline-specific engineering principles, standard design approaches, codes, standards, specifications, and company practices.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, time management, organization, attention to detail, and ability to balance quality and responsiveness.
Ability to work with computer screens for extended periods and sit for extended periods.
Ability to reach by extending hands or arms in any direction and use finger dexterity to manipulate objects, such as using a keyboard.
Ability to listen to and understand spoken information and ideas, communicate information and ideas clearly in speech, and read and understand written information.
Ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce sensible answers and identify and understand another person's speech.

Responsibilities

Interpret routine project requirements for assigned scope using established tools, templates, guidance, and defined scope boundaries.
Apply standard discipline knowledge, codes, standards, specifications, and company practices to routine design tasks and design decisions within defined scope.
Perform routine calculations, studies, and evaluations using established methods and tools; check results for reasonableness, common errors, omissions, and inconsistencies.
Develop or update routine system diagrams, layouts, interface information, architecture inputs, and coordination details using established processes.
Produce routine design deliverables with growing independence, including drawings, specifications, narratives, calculations, schedules, bills of material, diagrams, and technical packages.
Apply standard selection criteria to routine equipment, materials, or technology decisions; develop or update bills of material, equipment schedules, and comparison inputs for review.
Evaluate routine field conditions and constructability considerations; support RFIs, submittals, survey reports, field questions, and approved design changes within assigned scope.
Apply standard testing, commissioning, and operational readiness considerations to routine assigned designs, procedures, checklists, and turnover documentation.
Plan and execute routine engineering work with growing independence; track deliverables, action items, risks, comments, changes, dependencies, and assumptions using established tools.
Contribute to team quality by checking work, applying feedback consistently, sharing routine lessons learned, and participating in design reviews and knowledge-sharing activities.