Senior Building Automation Lead - Controls & Estimating

Daikin Comfort; Chesterfield (MO); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits start day one

Training programs

Growth opportunities

Global company backing by Daikin

Job summary

Daikin Comfort is seeking a Building Automation Specialist 4 at our Chesterfield, Missouri facility. This role serves as technical authority for controls and monitoring services, combining deep system knowledge with estimating, quoting, and client program ownership.

Maintains technical accountability from field conditions through long-term system strategy. Responsibilities include technical leadership, on-site assessments, client meetings, and mentoring technicians, with opportunities to advance

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in the related field.
• Project management, estimating and sales experience.
• Servicing and programming (Not configuration) controllers for central plants, stand alone units, and buildings utilizing advanced line code.
• Required HVAC experience.
• Required Building Automation experience
• Required data analysis experience
• Required presentation and training experience
• Required diagnostic troubleshooting experience and Root Cause Analysis
• Experience managing budgets and projects
• Scheduling staff and coordinating teams and subcontractors.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership. Will act as a team lead, account manage, and coordinator that schedules services and builds client relationships.
• Act as final technical escalation for complex or high-risk system issues.
• Define monitoring strategies, alarm philosophies, and system standards.
• Approve significant system changes and corrective strategies.
• Develop technical scopes for controls service, monitoring, and remediation.
• Produce labor and material estimates grounded in real system conditions.
• Review and validate estimates created by others.
• Serve as technical owner for select monitoring programs or key accounts.
• Conduct on-site system assessments to inform strategy and pricing.
• Participate in client meetings to explain findings, risks, and recommendations.
• Mentor lower-tier technicians and help qualify advancement.
• Create technical standards, templates, and playbooks.
• Presence at key facilities for system reviews, client meetings, and critical events.
• Authorized to approve scopes, pricing assumptions, monitoring models, and system-wide changes.

Skills

HVAC knowledge

Low voltage systems

MEP knowledge

IAQ

Project management

Estimating

Sales skills

Client relationships

Presentation skills

Education

High School GED

Job description

Daikin Comfort is seeking a Building Automation Specialist 4 at our Chesterfield, Missouri facility. This role serves as technical authority for controls and monitoring services, combining deep system knowledge with estimating, quoting, and client program ownership.

Maintains technical accountability from field conditions through long-term system strategy. Responsibilities include technical leadership, on-site assessments, client meetings, and mentoring technicians, with opportunities to advance