BMS Technician

Position Summary

This position repairs, adjusts, calibrates, and optimizes the building control systems. This position works out of the Facilities Services Remote Operations Center (ROC) to support facility-based plant personnel to maintain optimum performance of plant equipment.

Core Functions

• Trades level position that installs, adjusts, repairs, and troubleshoots controls of large heating ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, utility plant systems, lighting systems, and general building control systems.
• Controls, calibrates, and troubleshoots pressures, flows, temperatures, and speed of chillers, pumps, air handlers, terminal units, heat exchangers, etc.
• Operates, maintains, repairs, and updates the building automation computers.
• Creates and adjusts computer programs, graphics, and parameters in alignment with the ROC energy strategy and recommendations from data analysts and ROC leadership.
• Isolates and corrects building control system failures to restore normal operations.
• Maintains copies and backups of control sequences and computer images.
• Measures, calculates, and adjust supply air flow, exhaust air flows, and water flows for optimum operation to ensure compliance with all appropriate regulations and improve energy efficiency.
• Provides support to facility-based plant personnel to trouble-shoot control problems.
• Instructs plant personnel on operations strategies to enhance energy savings.
• Works with energy analysts to develop control strategies in effort of repairing, adjusting, and optimizing the operation of controlled equipment.

Minimum Qualifications

• Knowledge, skills and abilities as normally obtained through the completion of an Associate's Degree and 2 years’ experience of programming within the building automation industry or equivalent combination of education, technical, business and healthcare experience in a related field.
• Must have advanced skills in troubleshooting, installing, repairing, and servicing industrial building automation systems.
• Requires intermediate to advanced skills using word processing, spreadsheet, database and other standard business applications.
• Requires communication and presentation skills to engage technical and non-technical audiences.
• Requires ability to communicate and interact across facilities and at various levels.

Preferred Qualifications

• LonWorks and/or BACnet protocol fundamentals and Niagara AX and/or Niagara 4 experience or Possess a Niagara AX and/or Niagara 4 certification preferred.
• Additional education and/or experience with electrical/mechanical systems is strongly preferred.