Onsite Lead Data Center Controls Operator

PTR Global; Abernathy (TX); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K / retirement plan

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Generous PTO

Job summary

PTR Global seeks a Staff Controls Operator to manage live data-center controls, including BMS/SCADA/EPMS, across multiple sites in the Abernathy region and beyond. The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership, rapid response, and routine optimization of control sequences to meet reliability and efficiency targets.

Candidates should bring 8+ years in controls within mission-critical facilities, with strong onsite capabilities and proven ability to write runbooks and procedures for fleet-wide use.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years operating controls for live mission-critical facilities.
• Experience onsite across controls, electrical, mechanical, or facility disciplines.
• Strong knowledge of BMS, SCADA, and EPMS platforms.
• Experience writing operating procedures and alarm-response runbooks used by other operators.
• Demonstrated ability to resolve controls faults under pressure in live environments.
• Experience tuning control sequences and setpoints balancing reliability, efficiency, and cost.

Responsibilities

• Operate building management and controls systems across live data centers.
• Own real-time load and thermal control as sites come online.
• Write operating procedures, alarm-response runbooks, and standard control sequences.
• Diagnose and resolve controls faults onsite, including chiller-sequence issues, breaker misoperations, sensor problems, and control-point errors.
• Tune control sequences and setpoints to support PUE, reliability, efficiency, and cost targets.
• Identify drifting sensors, incorrect setpoints, and other issues before incidents.

Skills

Controls systems

BMS

SCADA

EPMS

Onsite fieldwork

Troubleshooting under pressure

Data center operations

Tools

BMS platforms

SCADA systems

EPMS platforms

Job description

PTR Global seeks a Staff Controls Operator to manage live data-center controls, including BMS/SCADA/EPMS, across multiple sites in the Abernathy region and beyond. The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership, rapid response, and routine optimization of control sequences to meet reliability and efficiency targets.

Candidates should bring 8+ years in controls within mission-critical facilities, with strong onsite capabilities and proven ability to write runbooks and procedures for fleet-wide use.