Onsite Data Center Controls Technician — Critical Facility

GCS Recruitment; Fredericksburg (VA); On-site; USD 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

GCS Recruitment is seeking Data Center Controls Technicians for hands-on work in Virginia and North Carolina. These roles focus on building automation, electrical monitoring, and mechanical systems in critical facilities.

You'll work with BMS/BAS, EPMS, and multiple protocols across data center environments, ensuring safe, powered, and monitored operations. Strong emphasis on troubleshooting, commissioning, and hands-on sensor/controller work in onsite, high-availability settings.

Qualifications

• Experience with building automation and HTS/EPMS platforms.
• Familiarity with commissioning and sensor calibration.
• Ability to troubleshoot controls and communications in data-center environments.

Responsibilities

• Support BMS/BAS systems for chillers, pumps, cooling towers, and sensors.
• Monitor EPMS environments for generators, UPS, switchgear, VFDs, and PDUs.
• Handle controllers, HMIs, IPCs, sensors, relays, and field devices.
• Perform point-to-point checkout and commissioning activities.
• Load software and configurations onto controllers and HMIs.
• Install, replace, calibrate, and validate sensors.
• Troubleshoot controls and communication issues across networks.
• Work with BACnet, Modbus, MQTT protocols and related standards.
• Collaborate with commissioning teams, contractors, and change control.

Skills

BMS/BAS knowledge

HVAC controls

Instrumentation & Controls

Electrical & Instrumentation

Troubleshooting hands-on

Networking basics

BACnet/Modbus/MQTT

Critical facilities awareness

Tools

Niagara

Tridium

Schneider Electric

Siemens

Honeywell

Johnson Controls

Automated Logic

Ignition

Job description

GCS Recruitment is seeking Data Center Controls Technicians for hands-on work in Virginia and North Carolina. These roles focus on building automation, electrical monitoring, and mechanical systems in critical facilities.

You'll work with BMS/BAS, EPMS, and multiple protocols across data center environments, ensuring safe, powered, and monitored operations. Strong emphasis on troubleshooting, commissioning, and hands-on sensor/controller work in onsite, high-availability settings.