Company 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.

As an employee at M.C. Dean, you will join forces with more than 3,600 professionals who engineer and deploy automated, secure, and resilient power and technology systems; and deliver the management platforms essential for long-term system sustainability.

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.

Engineers who join M.C. Dean's technical team can actively innovate and apply their technical skills in a multitude of ways. You can work on client sites and in our engineering solutioning labs, which serve as an extensive testing environment for our customers with virtual servers, hardware, software, and equipment for remote testing of access control, intrusion detection, facial recognition, and environmental data analysis. M.C. Dean is also an innovator in the design and delivery of large-scale modular systems led out of the company's manufacturing center in Virginia. Engineers can develop their career paths as desired to develop a broad and highly advanced set of technical skills across the company's integrated business units.

Position Overview:

The Procurement Agent reports directly to the Procurement Supervisor and utilizes knowledge of design build electrical industry materials to perform logistics tasks such as receiving, storing, and issuing materials, equipment, and other items from the M.C. Dean warehouse and from suppliers.

The Procurement Agent has a solid understanding of the Logistics Service Center processes and procedures and works on a wide variety of tasks and may assist with solving problems.

Position Description:

• Receiving, verifying, and counting stock items and keeping record of the corresponding data as appropriate.
• Verifying specific inventory computations by comparing them to physical counts of stock.
• Investigating inventory discrepancies and reconciling errors accordingly.
• Packing and unpacking items to be stocked on shelves in material storage areas.
• Marking stock items using identification tags, stamps, electronic marking tools, and other labeling equipment.
• Cleaning and maintaining supplies, tools, equipment, and storage areas in order to ensure compliance with safety regulations.
• Determining proper storage methods based on stock location, turnover, environmental factors, and physical capabilities of the facility.
• Storing stock items in an orderly, safe, and accessible manner within the warehouses, supply rooms, material storage and lay down areas.
• Examining and inspecting stock items for wear or defects, and subsequently reporting any damage to supervisors.
• Maintaining documented records, which outline the usage of stock and stock handling equipment.
• Maintaining documented records, which outline the damage of stock and stock handling equipment.
• Developing a working knowledge of and using internal software systems including the Material Requisition System, Equipment Transfer System, and Procurement Mobile.
• Demonstrating understanding of the design build electrical industry as it relates to M.C. Dean processes and procedures within the Logistics Service Center, and utilizing such knowledge to respond effectively to inquiries, questions, and concerns.
• Demonstrating understanding of materials and equipment within the M.C. Dean environment and assisting with the training and mentoring of less experienced staff when appropriate.
• Consistently maintaining a high level of productivity as made evident by completing all assigned projects and tasks within the appropriate time frame and in accordance with any scheduled deadlines.
• Utilizing advanced reporting and tracking functions within Microsoft (MS) Excel.
• Consistently demonstrating verbal and written communication (its use of (MS) Outlook) skills that are professional and appropriate at all levels.
• Aiding other project staff as needed.

Education & Qualifications Required:

• Currently enrolled or recent graduate of a Bachelor of Science Degree or Master's program in engineering or a related discipline with 0-2 years of experience.
• US Citizenship required.
• Strong reporting and tracking skills, along with a consistent record of accomplishment of accuracy, high productivity, professional level work ethic, and strict compliance with safety policies and procedures.
• Must demonstrate competency in managing critical tasks individually such as controlling the consignment programs, tool management, managing the lay down area, and/or loading and unloading zones and various other individual responsibilities as assigned.

Abilities:

• Exposure to computer screens for an extended period
• Sitting for extended periods of time.
• Reach by extending hands or arms in any direction.
• Have finger dexterity 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.