Building Automation Manager (Nashville, TN on-site)

Responsibilities

• Lead building automation, controls, and OT engineering resources supporting one or more sites, campuses, or regions.
• Manage the day-to-day execution of BMS, controls integration, OT network support, alarm management, and automation-related operational initiatives.
• Ensure building automation systems are designed, implemented, commissioned, and maintained in a way that supports safe, reliable, and efficient facility operations.
• Partner with design, construction, and commissioning teams to review controls architecture, integration requirements, points lists, sequences of operation, alarming, and handoff expectations for new builds and retrofits.
• Oversee troubleshooting and escalation support for complex automation, controls, and OT system issues affecting facility operations.
• Ensure documentation quality and configuration control across BMS graphics, network diagrams, control narratives, sequences, device inventories, and change records.
• Support OT cybersecurity compliance by partnering with security and infrastructure teams on segmentation, patching coordination, device visibility, access control, and applicable standards.
• Drive consistency in alarm philosophy, monitoring expectations, system performance reporting, and change management practices across supported sites.
• Manage vendors, system integrators, and service providers to ensure quality delivery, technical compliance, and sustained supportability.
• Coach and develop automation engineers and technical staff in troubleshooting rigor, documentation discipline, cybersecurity awareness, and operational support practices.
• Contribute to automation roadmaps involving analytics, smarter alarming, remote support capabilities, and improved visibility into facility performance.

Requirements

• 5–8 years of experience in building automation, industrial automation, controls engineering, OT systems, or mission-critical facility automation; data center experience preferred, though adjacent experience in healthcare, pharma, semiconductor, utilities, manufacturing, or other high-availability environments is also relevant.
• 1–3 years of experience leading engineers, integrators, or technical programs in a controls, automation, or OT environment.
• Strong working knowledge of BMS, PLC, SCADA, HMI, and OT network fundamentals in multi-vendor environments.
• Experience supporting commissioning, troubleshooting, operational handoff, and post-occupancy support of automation systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Automation, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field preferred; equivalent technical experience also valued.

Skills And Competencies

• Strong people leadership with the ability to set priorities, drive execution, and develop technical talent.
• Strong technical judgment across controls architecture, operational risk, alarm quality, and system maintainability.
• Ability to align engineering, operations, IT, cybersecurity, and vendors around common standards and delivery expectations.
• Structured problem solving and effective escalation management in time-sensitive environments.
• Ability to communicate technical issues, risk, and program status clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.