Senior Building Controls Technician | DDC & Commissioning

The Building People; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

The Building People, LLC is seeking a Senior Building Controls Technician to design, program, configure, and test Direct Digital Control (DDC) building automation systems for smart buildings.

This full-time role requires independent work with limited supervision, travel up to 25%, and collaboration with engineering teams to meet project requirements and ensure commissioning, startup, and owner training.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of experience programming, startup and commissioning of control systems.
• Niagara N4 certification.
• Experience with multiple manufacturers of controls is a plus.
• Technical knowledge with installation of controls equipment and ancillary devices.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Communication

Microsoft Office

Programming

Analytics

Troubleshooting

Electronics

Electrical circuits

DDC protocols

Team collaboration

Customer service

Education

Niagara N4 certification

3+ years experience in control systems

Tools

BACnet

Modbus

LON

Niagara N4

Job description

The Building People, LLC is seeking a Senior Building Controls Technician to design, program, configure, and test Direct Digital Control (DDC) building automation systems for smart buildings.

This full-time role requires independent work with limited supervision, travel up to 25%, and collaboration with engineering teams to meet project requirements and ensure commissioning, startup, and owner training.