Smart Building Controls Technician - Commissioning

The Building People Career Center; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

The Building People Career Center is seeking a Building Controls Technician to design, program, test and commission building automation systems for projects in Washington DC and surrounding suburbs. This role may involve supervision of subcontractors and interfacing with customers, with travel up to 25%.

The technician will work on DD C-based control systems, firmware updates, graphics, sequences of operation, and owner training as required by each project.

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

Job description

The Building People Career Center is seeking a Building Controls Technician to design, program, test and commission building automation systems for projects in Washington DC and surrounding suburbs. This role may involve supervision of subcontractors and interfacing with customers, with travel up to 25%.

The technician will work on DD C-based control systems, firmware updates, graphics, sequences of operation, and owner training as required by each project.