Lead Controls Engineer, Design Development

Jobtailor; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Leader to head the controls design development team for modular data centers. You will own template designs, SOOs, BOMs, and Division 25 specifications that every project inherits.

You will set technical direction, define standards and architectures, and drive decisions across mechanical, electrical, commissioning and construction so schedules stay on track. You will hire and grow engineers, and ensure design packages are high quality and repeatable.

Qualifications

• You’ve led a controls or design engineering team, owning both the technical output and the people producing it.
• You’ve set controls design standards, reference architectures, or specifications that others built from across multiple projects, not just delivered your own designs.
• You’ve authored or owned Division 25 integrated automation specifications, and you know what separates a spec that holds up in the field from one that generates change orders.
• You’ve written sequences of operations and seen them through to working code, so you can tell when a design is genuinely buildable and not just correct on paper.
• You make design decisions fast and defend them across mechanical, electrical, and construction stakeholders who each want something different.
• You’ve hired controls engineers and grown people from competent to excellent, and other teams trust the work your team ships.

Responsibilities

• Lead the controls design development team, owning the template designs, SOOs, points lists, BOMs, and Division 25 specifications that every modular data center build inherits.
• Set the technical direction for controls design, deciding the standards, platforms, and reference architectures the whole fleet builds from.
• Drive design decisions to resolution across mechanical, electrical, commissioning, and construction, so controls design is never the thing holding up a site's schedule.
• Grow the team, hiring controls engineers and raising the bar on the design work they produce.
• Own the quality and repeatability of every design package that leaves the team, so the hundredth site is designed faster and cleaner than the first.

Skills

Controls Design

Sequences of Operations

Reference Architectures

Building Information Modeling (BIM)

Integrated Automation Specifications

Job description

Responsibilities

• Lead the controls design development team, owning the template designs, SOOs, points lists, BOMs, and Division 25 specifications that every modular data center build inherits.
• Set the technical direction for controls design, deciding the standards, platforms, and reference architectures the whole fleet builds from.
• Drive design decisions to resolution across mechanical, electrical, commissioning, and construction, so controls design is never the thing holding up a site's schedule.
• Grow the team, hiring controls engineers and raising the bar on the design work they produce.
• Own the quality and repeatability of every design package that leaves the team, so the hundredth site is designed faster and cleaner than the first.

Qualifications

• You’ve led a controls or design engineering team, owning both the technical output and the people producing it.
• You’ve set controls design standards, reference architectures, or specifications that others built from across multiple projects, not just delivered your own designs.
• You’ve authored or owned Division 25 integrated automation specifications, and you know what separates a spec that holds up in the field from one that generates change orders.
• You’ve written sequences of operations and seen them through to working code, so you can tell when a design is genuinely buildable and not just correct on paper.
• You make design decisions fast and defend them across mechanical, electrical, and construction stakeholders who each want something different.
• You’ve hired controls engineers and grown people from competent to excellent, and other teams trust the work your team ships.

Hard Skills

• Controls Design
• Sequences of Operations
• Reference Architectures
• Building Information Modeling (BIM)
• Integrated Automation Specifications

Soft Skills

• Decision Making
• Stakeholder Communication
• Team Leadership