Automation Engineer Intern Jobs in Charleston, SC

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 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.
Why Join Us?
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.
Transitioning Military Service Members
M.C. Dean offers Transitioning Military Service Members the opportunity to participate in cohorts through the SkillBridge and/or Hiring our Heroes Program.
Responsibilities
This role is within M.C. Dean's Critical Infrastructure Solutions division in Charleston, SC, supporting various contracts. The position provides hands-on exposure to project management in electrical contracting, with experience in both the pre-construction and construction phases of projects.

• During the pre-construction phase, responsibilities include:

o Learning how to read drawings
o Review and manage electrical designs
o Perform takeoffs
o Quote subcontractors and material
o Prepare complete estimates
o Develop proposals

• On the construction side exposure will include:

o Submittals
o RFIs,
o Scheduling,
o Financial analysis (including budgeting and forecasting)
o Resource management.
Qualifications
Requirements:

• MUST BE an active duty service member who is approaching or within his/her 180-day window of separation from the military
• HS Diploma or GED

Why You Should Join M.C. Dean
M.C. Dean delivers multi-disciplinary systems engineering for electrical, electronic security, telecommunications, life-safety, instrumentation and control, and command and control systems; and provides machine-to-machine communications, and physical and cybersecurity services to clients across six continents. We are trusted by Fortune 100 global enterprises, data centers and top defense, civilian, and intelligence agencies, to design, build, operate and maintain their most mission critical systems.
As an employee at M.C. Dean, you will join forces with almost 6,000 professionals who engineer and deploy automated, secure, and resilient power and technology systems; and deliver the management platforms essential for long-term system sustainability.
Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, M.C. Dean performs work throughout the United States and Europe, including integrated regional offices in Baltimore, MD; Charleston, SC; Atlanta, GA; Tampa, FL; Houston & Dallas, TX; Santa Clara, CA; Portland, OR; and Stuttgart, Germany.
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.