BAS Controls Mission Critical Service Technician

Liberty Personnel Services, Inc.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Liberty Personnel Services, Inc. seeks a technician to perform preventive and corrective maintenance on data center controls and automation systems.

The role focuses on BAS/BMS controllers, EPMS interfaces, DCIM-related monitoring, and associated electrical and control equipment. Responsibilities include executing work per MOPs/SOPs/EOPs, maintaining sensor networks and alarms, and ensuring safety protocols.

Qualifications

• Must perform preventive and corrective maintenance on data center controls and automation systems.
• Strong familiarity with BAS/BMS controllers and field panels.
• Experience with data center monitoring interfaces and alarm points.

Responsibilities

• Perform preventive and corrective maintenance on data center controls and automation systems.
• Maintain and troubleshoot BAS/BMS controllers, field panels, EPMS, and power-monitoring interfaces.
• Handle DCIM-adjacent monitoring, control panels, sensors and communication modules.
• Verify readings, trends, and sequence-of-operation logic; follow MOPs, SOPs, EOPs, and change-management processes.
• Support alarm response, degraded performance investigations, and outage-support activities.
• Document work performed with readings, trends, and system conditions; ensure safety protocols (LOTO, PPE).
• Participate in scheduled maintenance, on-call rotations, and after-hours response.

Skills

Preventive maintenance

Electrical safety

Data center controls

Tools

BAS/BMS controllers

DCIM systems

LOTO & safety

Job description

My client is the largest independent commercial HVAC manufacturers’ rep in North America , with 20 locations in the US and Canada. You would become part of the best team in Commercial HVAC, Refrigeration, and of course, BMS and Industrial Controls.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform preventive and corrective maintenance on data center controls and automation systems, including but not limited to:
• BAS/BMS controllers and field panels.
• EPMS and power-monitoring interface points.
• DCIM-adjacent monitoring and integration points.
• Control panels, relays, terminal blocks, low-voltage wiring, and communication modules.
• Temperature, humidity, differential pressure, static pressure, airflow, leak detection, and equipment status sensors.
• CRAH/CRAC, AHU/RTU, fan wall, chilled water, pump, cooling tower, adiabatic, and liquid-cooling control interfaces.
• UPS, generator, ATS/STS, switchgear, PDU, RPP, and electrical monitoring points where applicable.
• Alarm points, trend logs, graphics, setpoints, schedules, and sequence-of-operation logic.
• Execute work through the approved field management system using approved. MOPs, SOPs, EOPs, and change-management processes.
• Maintain awareness of redundancy, upstream/downstream impacts, stacked risk, and potential consequences of controls changes.
• Support alarm response, degraded performance investigations, sensor failures, communication loss, control-loop instability, and emergency service calls per SLA.
• Perform point-to-point verification, sensor validation, command/feedback checks, trend review, and controls readiness inspections.
• Support startup, functional testing, integrated systems testing, and turnover activities as assigned.
• Document work performed, readings, screenshots, trends, deficiencies, alarms, corrective actions, and system conditions accurately.
• Follow strict safety protocols, including LOTO, PPE, low-voltage electrical safety, site access rules, tool control, and live-site restrictions.
• Participate in scheduled maintenance windows, on-call rotations, after-hours response, and outage-support activities.
• Complete required company, data center, controls, OEM, and mission-critical training.