Senior Building Controls Technician

The Building People Career Center; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

The Building People, LLC has a position open for a full-time Senior Building Controls Technician to provide services related to the expansion, upgrade or replacement of building automation hardware and software for smart building infrastructure. The position will work independently to meet project requirements with limited supervision.

The programmer will be responsible for programming, configuring, and testing of Direct Digital Control (DDC) building automation and control systems.

Qualifications

• Experience with building automation and DDC programming.
• Ability to design control system hardware and software per specs.
• Strong documentation and project coordination skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and engineer control system hardware and software programming based on project plans, specifications, and other contract documents
• Program projects with varying complexity
• Troubleshoot networks, databases and perform repair programming
• Collaborate with engineering on configuration, graphics and sequences
• Configure sequences, graphics, databases, networks, and third-party integrations
• Maintain project documentation and redlines
• Provide owner training as required
• Execute system commissioning and functional testing
• Assist in installation of control hardware
• Startup and commission new hardware installations
• Provide project management assistance and interface with customers
• Supervise subcontractors and suppliers
• Educate junior technicians on the job

Skills

DDC programming

Electrical knowledge

System design

Documentation

Training others

Tools

BACnet

Niagara/Tridium

HMI/SCADA

Job description

* Please note that this is for an upcoming position. We are, however, accepting applications for this anticipated need. If you are interested in joining The Building People, we encourage you to

The Building People, LLC, has a position open for a full-timeSenior Building Controls Techniciantoprovide services related to the expansion, upgrade or replacement of building automation hardware and software for smart building infrastructure. The position will work independently to meet project requirements with limited supervision. The programmer will be responsible for programming, configuring, and testing of Direct Digital Control (DDC) building automation and control systems.

Responsibilities/Duties

• Design and engineer control system hardware and software programming based on project plans, specifications, and other contract documents

• Ability to program projects with various levels of complexity

• Capable of performing network troubleshooting, database troubleshooting and repair programming

• Collaborates with the engineering team on the system configuration, network and software requirements, graphics, programming, and sequences of operations

• Develop and configure the sequence of operations, programming, graphics, database, network, and integrations into third party systems

• Maintains accurate and thorough project documentation and redlines

• Provides owner training as required by the project

• Executes system commissioning and functional testing

• Assist in installation of control hardware

• Startup and commission new hardware installations

• Provide project management assistance on projects as required, interfacing directly to customers

• Supervise sub-contractors and suppliers as needed

• Help educate lower-level technicians through on the job training as needed

This position will require a minimum of 25% travel