Critical Facility Technician 1

**Disclaimer: To be considered for this position, candidates must attend the hiring event in person at the location listed below. **

Location: DoubleTree by Hilton San Antonio Downtown

502 West César E. Chávez Boulevard, San Antonio, TX 78207

Date & Time: Thursday, 11/13/25 from 9:00am -3:00pm

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. The company's capabilities include electrical, electronic security, telecommunications, life safety, automation and controls, audio visual, and IT systems. M.C. Dean is headquartered in Tyson's, Virginia, and employs more than 5,800 professionals who engineer and deploy automated, secure, and resilient power and technology systems; and deliver the management platforms essential for long-term system sustainability.

Why join M.C. Dean? Our people are inspired by the way engineering and innovation enhance customer outcomes, improve lives, and change the world for the better. We are driven by our core values of agility, expertise, and trust.

Clearance Requirement: Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and may meet eligibility requirements, including U.S. Citizenship, for access to classified information; Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance. 

License/Certification Requirement: 

• Journeyman or Master License in Electrical or Mechanical
• Mechanical applicants must possess an EPA Certification
• VMET (Verification of Military Experience and Training) is accepted if it reflects relevant electrical or mechanical experience and is approved by customer

Responsible for ensuring that all electrical, mechanical, and fire/life safety equipment within the data center is operating at peak efficiency. This involves both planned preventative maintenance of equipment, daily corrective work, and emergency response to emergent issues. The technician serves as an expert technical resource reporting to a program manager, interacting with Onsite Engineering Operations (OEO) and any third-party vendors. They are expected to be a singular focal point for all facility operations within a given data center and to support operated data centers. Data center equipment that supports mission-critical servers must maintain better than 99.999% uptime. 

• Utilizes safe working practices; can apply lockout/tagout, SDS, applies good housekeeping methods, etc.
• Ability to type and utilize common administrative and office software.
• Reads and reviews blueprints, floor plans, wiring diagrams, mechanical riser drawings, and job specifications.
• Ability to use hand tools and test equipment to install, troubleshoot, and repair new or replacement parts for existing units covered under CET1 classified procedures, according to specifications and established safety guidelines, relying on MOPs, manufacturer's literature, and industry best practices to perform tasks under supervision, and ensures activities are logged in CMMS.
• Capable of assisting a CET2 technician with CET2 classified procedures (MOP/SOP) associated with the site/campus they are based.
• Daily walk-through of facility documenting parameters such as power availability, temperature and humidity, alarm status, etc. to be catalogued and compared for identification of discrepancies and trends.
• Ability to understand site-specific processes and procedures such as how to report an incident or outage, procedure execution, PM standards, CMMS system, as well as the use of SharePoint to access CE procedures and training content.
• Ability to learn how to access the site primary and secondary EOP's and understand the purpose of each of the EOP's and the critical nature of being an operator and first responder in the datacenter.
• Navigate and verify the nominal status of the electrical and mechanical infrastructure via the BMS and EPMS systems, following site MOP & SOP procedures.

• Applicants must have a high school diploma or GED or greater
• Applicant must have a 4+ years of experience in a data center environment or other critical facility environment in the electrical or mechanical field
• Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements, including U.S. Citizenship, for access to classified information; Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance.
• Applicants identified as Mechanical shall have experience with centrifugal chillers greater than 300 tons, boilers, or significant other mechanical experiences
• Applicants identified as Electrical shall have experience with switchgear, generators, UPS or significant other electrical experiences
• Journeyman or Master License in Electrical or Mechanical 
• Mechanical applicants must possess an EPA Certification
• VMET (Verification of Military Experience and Training) is accepted if it reflects relevant electrical or mechanical experience and is approved by customer

We offer an excellent benefits package including:

• A competitive salary
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• 401k Retirement Plan
• Military Reserve pay offset
• Paid maternity leave

Abilities:

• The position requires the ability to lift, carry, and move objects weighing up to [50 pounds] on a regular basis. Candidates must demonstrate physical strength and stamina to perform various tasks, including but not limited to, loading, and unloading, operating equipment, and assisting in the transportation of various materials. Proper lifting techniques and safety protocols must be followed to ensure personal and team safety.
• Relocates a 12-foot stepladder without assistance.
• Works at various heights up to 60 feet and can climb and maintain balance on scaffolds, aerial lifts, catwalks and all types of ladders.
• Walks, climbs, lifts, squats, crawls, kneels, pushes, pulls and reaches overhead on a routine and repetitive basis.
• Possess good vision (may be corrected vision), the ability to see in color, and the ability to hear and communicate in English.
• May use a standard ladder without exceeding the weight limit while carrying tools.
• Tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong.  It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
• Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (including finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
• See details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
• Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.