Building Automation Systems Manager
for each section heading. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Must not omit details like percentages? The essential functions have percentages in parentheses; we should keep them. Also we need to keep the capital budget mention, etc.
We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual salary range, so Pay section is fine.
We must not include duplicated lines. Ensure we don't repeat same content.
Let's extract content.
From posting:
- Salary range: between $60,906 and $77,047, depending on qualifications, experience, department budgets, and industry data.
- Benefits: Employees receive more than just a paycheck. University employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits package that includes excellent healthcare, retirement plans, tuition assistance, paid time off, and a winter recess.
- Position Objective: Under the general direction of the Assistant Director of Facilities Services, the Building Automation Systems Manager provides university-wide leadership for the selection, installation, quality assurance, performance optimization, commissioning support, troubleshooting strategy, and technical governance of building automation systems across the campus portfolio. The position has a $1 million capital budget for developing, implementing, and maintaining a comprehensive controls and systems performance program that ensures building systems function safely, reliably, efficiently, and in alignment with design intent, operational requirements, occupant needs, and institutional sustainability goals. This role leads the corrective maintenance and controls support function for new and existing building automation systems; establishes standards for performance validation, documentation, and acceptance; oversees technical staff and external service providers; and serves as the department's subject matter expert for controls-related system performance, optimization, and lifecycle planning. Utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, the position supports the university's commitment to operational excellence, reduced energy consumption, deferred maintenance reduction, and progress toward carbon neutrality.
- Essential Functions (list with percentages):
1. Lead, direct, and evaluate the work of senior staff and vendors responsible for the troubleshooting, repair, optimization, and performance verification of campus building automation systems. Identify areas of weakness and develop strategies for internal resources to gain experience or seek training. Determine the need for external resources when necessary and balance limited operational funding, with system requirements for repair or replacement. Establish work priorities, staffing plans, technical expectations, service standards, training requirements, and safety practices for corrective maintenance and controls support operations. Lead hiring, onboarding, performance management, employee development, scheduling, and corrective action as needed to ensure efficient, accountable, and responsive team performance. (20%)
2. Provide technical leadership for the prioritization of building automation systems capital projects. Understand market conditions which impact vendor selection and drive costs for system maintenance and replacement. Oversee the creation of system specifications and operating sequences. Direct the review, validation, and acceptance of new and modified controls installations, system upgrades, and renewal projects. Develop strategies to confirm that systems and sequences operate in accordance with design intent, project specifications, operational needs, and sustainability objectives. Identify deficiencies, coordinate corrective actions with internal stakeholders and contractors, and support successful system turnover and long-term maintainability. (20%)
3. Direct the evaluation, analysis, and optimization of existing campus building automation systems relative to original design intent, current operational use, occupant comfort, equipment reliability, maintainability, and energy performance goals. Identify systemic deficiencies, recurring failures, and optimization opportunities, and develop corrective action strategies that improve performance while reducing operational risk and unnecessary energy use. Develop and maintain an integrated priority list for building automation systems upgrades bases on system age, condition, reliability, maintainability, operations impact, and institutional priorities. (15%)
4. Develop, implement, and maintain university standards and procedures for controls-related troubleshooting, sequence verification, testing, and acceptance. Establish consistent processes for evaluating new and existing building automation systems to ensure installations, modifications, and repairs comply with university standards, applicable codes, and operational requirements. (10%)
5. Lead technical coordination for controls-related projects, including development of scopes of work, bid documents, technical specifications, testing requirements, progress documentation, and performance criteria. Review contractor proposals for technical conformance, participate in vendor selection and contract evaluation, oversee contractor performance, and support negotiation and execution of service and project agreements to ensure quality, compliance, and value. (10%)
6. Serve as a technical advisor in the planning, prioritization, and implementation of major renewal and replacement projects related to building automation systems. Analyze system condition, failure patterns, operational risk, maintainability, and efficiency opportunities to prioritize capital investments that are well past lifecycle needs. (10%)
7. Collaborate with utilities, maintenance, engineering, customer service, project management, sustainability, and risk management to mitigate building automation systems failure exposure and maximize operational continuity. Serve as a technical resource in the interpretation of controls-related issues, project requirements, and system performance concerns affecting research, academic, residential, and administrative spaces. (10%)
8. Oversee the development and maintenance of comprehensive technical documentation related to controls and system performance, including equipment inventories, nameplate data, control sequences, deficiency logs, and testing results. Ensure documentation supports operational decision-making, troubleshooting, audit readiness, capital planning, and asset management. (4%)
9. Nonessential Functions Perform other duties as assigned. (1%) (maybe we can include as part of responsibilities but it's nonessential; we could include but it's minor. Probably we can include as part of responsibilities but it's okay.)
- Contacts: Not needed as heading not allowed.
- Supervisory Responsibilities: Directly supervise two Skilled Trades Worker 2 positions and two Skilled Trades Worker 3 positions, engaged in controls troubleshooting, maintenance, repair, system optimization, and performance validation. Provide leadership in evaluating work, setting priorities, ensuring safety and quality standards, supporting training and development, and maintaining accountability for service delivery. Provide functional oversight to contractors, vendors, and project resources engaged in controls-related work.
This could be part of Responsibilities or maybe Qualifications? It's supervisory responsibility; could be part of Responsibilities.
- Qualifications:
Experience: 7 to 10 years of progressively responsible experience in facilities operations, building automation controls, systems troubleshooting, commissioning, utilities, or related technical infrastructure environments required. Demonstrated experience coordinating contractors and managing complex controls and building automation systems initiatives strongly preferred. Experience in higher education, healthcare, research, or other complex institutional settings preferred.
Education: High school education required. Combination of advanced technical training, industry certifications, or directly related experience required. Formal training and demonstrated proficiency in one or more major controls platforms such as Barber Coleman, Square D Power Logic, Johnson Controls, Trane, Seimens, or comparable systems required. Must be willing to pursue additional education, certification, and technical training as needed.
- Required Skills: list of many bullet points (starting with "Demonstrated advanced knowledge...").
We need to put Skills section with
- for each skill.
- Working Conditions: not allowed heading, so we may omit or incorporate into something else? The instructions say only use those headings; we should not create extra headings. So we should drop Working Conditions unless we can fit into another allowed heading like Responsibilities? Probably better to omit as it's not in allowed list. However we must preserve ALL substantive information. The instruction says "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." But also "Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It doesn't forbid other headings, but says "Use for section headings (e.g ...)". It seems we should only use those headings for sections; but we could still include other content under those headings. The Working Conditions could be placed under Responsibilities or About the role? It's not exactly a duty but maybe we can put under Responsibilities as part of role description. However it's more about working conditions; but we could incorporate into a paragraph under About the role. The instruction says "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could merge Working Conditions into About the role or Responsibilities. I'd put it under About the role as a paragraph after position objective.
But we must not invent or summarize away detail; we can keep the details as a paragraph.
Thus About the role will contain position objective, capital budget, AI usage, and working conditions paragraph.
Responsibilities will contain essential functions list (including supervisory responsibilities maybe). We'll also include supervisory responsibilities as part of responsibilities.
Qualifications will contain experience and education.
Skills will contain required skills list.
Benefits will contain benefits paragraph.
Pay will contain salary range.
We must not include Schedule.
Now produce HTML.
We need to ensure we use for each section heading.
We'll produce something like:
About the role
Under the general direction of the Assistant Director of Facilities Services, the Building Automation Systems Manager provides university-wide leadership for the selection, installation, quality assurance, performance optimization, commissioning support, troubleshooting strategy, and technical governance of building automation systems across the campus portfolio. The position has a $1 million capital budget for developing, implementing, and maintaining a comprehensive controls and systems performance program that ensures building systems function safely, reliably, efficiently, and in alignment with design intent, operational requirements, occupant needs, and institutional sustainability goals. This role leads the corrective maintenance and controls support function for new and existing building automation systems; establishes standards for performance validation, documentation, and acceptance; oversees technical staff and external service providers; and serves as the department's subject matter expert for controls-related system performance, optimization, and lifecycle planning. Utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, the position supports the university's commitment to operational excellence, reduced energy consumption, deferred maintenance reduction, and progress toward carbon neutrality. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and talk or hear. The employee must be able to lift and/or occasionally move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The employee can frequently be exposed to moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; and risk of radiation and the potential for electrical shock. The employee will occasionally be exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, extreme heat, and/or extreme cold. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. The employee must be willing to be on-call in case of emergency.
Responsibilities
- Lead, direct, and evaluate the work of senior staff and vendors responsible for the troubleshooting, repair, optimization, and performance verification of campus building automation systems.
for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Must not omit details like percentages? The essential functions have percentages in parentheses; we should keep them. Also we need to keep the capital budget mention, etc. We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual salary range, so Pay section is fine. We must not include duplicated lines. Ensure we don't repeat same content. Let's extract content. From posting: - Salary range: between $60,906 and $77,047, depending on qualifications, experience, department budgets, and industry data. - Benefits: Employees receive more than just a paycheck. University employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits package that includes excellent healthcare, retirement plans, tuition assistance, paid time off, and a winter recess. - Position Objective: Under the general direction of the Assistant Director of Facilities Services, the Building Automation Systems Manager provides university-wide leadership for the selection, installation, quality assurance, performance optimization, commissioning support, troubleshooting strategy, and technical governance of building automation systems across the campus portfolio. The position has a $1 million capital budget for developing, implementing, and maintaining a comprehensive controls and systems performance program that ensures building systems function safely, reliably, efficiently, and in alignment with design intent, operational requirements, occupant needs, and institutional sustainability goals. This role leads the corrective maintenance and controls support function for new and existing building automation systems; establishes standards for performance validation, documentation, and acceptance; oversees technical staff and external service providers; and serves as the department's subject matter expert for controls-related system performance, optimization, and lifecycle planning. Utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, the position supports the university's commitment to operational excellence, reduced energy consumption, deferred maintenance reduction, and progress toward carbon neutrality. - Essential Functions (list with percentages): 1. Lead, direct, and evaluate the work of senior staff and vendors responsible for the troubleshooting, repair, optimization, and performance verification of campus building automation systems. Identify areas of weakness and develop strategies for internal resources to gain experience or seek training. Determine the need for external resources when necessary and balance limited operational funding, with system requirements for repair or replacement. Establish work priorities, staffing plans, technical expectations, service standards, training requirements, and safety practices for corrective maintenance and controls support operations. Lead hiring, onboarding, performance management, employee development, scheduling, and corrective action as needed to ensure efficient, accountable, and responsive team performance. (20%) 2. Provide technical leadership for the prioritization of building automation systems capital projects. Understand market conditions which impact vendor selection and drive costs for system maintenance and replacement. Oversee the creation of system specifications and operating sequences. Direct the review, validation, and acceptance of new and modified controls installations, system upgrades, and renewal projects. Develop strategies to confirm that systems and sequences operate in accordance with design intent, project specifications, operational needs, and sustainability objectives. Identify deficiencies, coordinate corrective actions with internal stakeholders and contractors, and support successful system turnover and long-term maintainability. (20%) 3. Direct the evaluation, analysis, and optimization of existing campus building automation systems relative to original design intent, current operational use, occupant comfort, equipment reliability, maintainability, and energy performance goals. Identify systemic deficiencies, recurring failures, and optimization opportunities, and develop corrective action strategies that improve performance while reducing operational risk and unnecessary energy use. Develop and maintain an integrated priority list for building automation systems upgrades bases on system age, condition, reliability, maintainability, operations impact, and institutional priorities. (15%) 4. Develop, implement, and maintain university standards and procedures for controls-related troubleshooting, sequence verification, testing, and acceptance. Establish consistent processes for evaluating new and existing building automation systems to ensure installations, modifications, and repairs comply with university standards, applicable codes, and operational requirements. (10%) 5. Lead technical coordination for controls-related projects, including development of scopes of work, bid documents, technical specifications, testing requirements, progress documentation, and performance criteria. Review contractor proposals for technical conformance, participate in vendor selection and contract evaluation, oversee contractor performance, and support negotiation and execution of service and project agreements to ensure quality, compliance, and value. (10%) 6. Serve as a technical advisor in the planning, prioritization, and implementation of major renewal and replacement projects related to building automation systems. Analyze system condition, failure patterns, operational risk, maintainability, and efficiency opportunities to prioritize capital investments that are well past lifecycle needs. (10%) 7. Collaborate with utilities, maintenance, engineering, customer service, project management, sustainability, and risk management to mitigate building automation systems failure exposure and maximize operational continuity. Serve as a technical resource in the interpretation of controls-related issues, project requirements, and system performance concerns affecting research, academic, residential, and administrative spaces. (10%) 8. Oversee the development and maintenance of comprehensive technical documentation related to controls and system performance, including equipment inventories, nameplate data, control sequences, deficiency logs, and testing results. Ensure documentation supports operational decision-making, troubleshooting, audit readiness, capital planning, and asset management. (4%) 9. Nonessential Functions Perform other duties as assigned. (1%) (maybe we can include as part of responsibilities but it's nonessential; we could include but it's minor. Probably we can include as part of responsibilities but it's okay.) - Contacts: Not needed as heading not allowed. - Supervisory Responsibilities: Directly supervise two Skilled Trades Worker 2 positions and two Skilled Trades Worker 3 positions, engaged in controls troubleshooting, maintenance, repair, system optimization, and performance validation. Provide leadership in evaluating work, setting priorities, ensuring safety and quality standards, supporting training and development, and maintaining accountability for service delivery. Provide functional oversight to contractors, vendors, and project resources engaged in controls-related work. This could be part of Responsibilities or maybe Qualifications? It's supervisory responsibility; could be part of Responsibilities. - Qualifications: Experience: 7 to 10 years of progressively responsible experience in facilities operations, building automation controls, systems troubleshooting, commissioning, utilities, or related technical infrastructure environments required. Demonstrated experience coordinating contractors and managing complex controls and building automation systems initiatives strongly preferred. Experience in higher education, healthcare, research, or other complex institutional settings preferred. Education: High school education required. Combination of advanced technical training, industry certifications, or directly related experience required. Formal training and demonstrated proficiency in one or more major controls platforms such as Barber Coleman, Square D Power Logic, Johnson Controls, Trane, Seimens, or comparable systems required. Must be willing to pursue additional education, certification, and technical training as needed. - Required Skills: list of many bullet points (starting with "Demonstrated advanced knowledge..."). We need to put Skills section with
- for each skill.
- Working Conditions: not allowed heading, so we may omit or incorporate into something else? The instructions say only use those headings; we should not create extra headings. So we should drop Working Conditions unless we can fit into another allowed heading like Responsibilities? Probably better to omit as it's not in allowed list. However we must preserve ALL substantive information. The instruction says "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." But also "Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It doesn't forbid other headings, but says "Use
for section headings (e.g ...)". It seems we should only use those headings for sections; but we could still include other content under those headings. The Working Conditions could be placed under Responsibilities or About the role? It's not exactly a duty but maybe we can put under Responsibilities as part of role description. However it's more about working conditions; but we could incorporate into a paragraph under About the role. The instruction says "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could merge Working Conditions into About the role or Responsibilities. I'd put it under About the role as a paragraph after position objective. But we must not invent or summarize away detail; we can keep the details as a paragraph. Thus About the role will contain position objective, capital budget, AI usage, and working conditions paragraph. Responsibilities will contain essential functions list (including supervisory responsibilities maybe). We'll also include supervisory responsibilities as part of responsibilities. Qualifications will contain experience and education. Skills will contain required skills list. Benefits will contain benefits paragraph. Pay will contain salary range. We must not include Schedule. Now produce HTML. We need to ensure we use
for each section heading. We'll produce something like:
About the role
Under the general direction of the Assistant Director of Facilities Services, the Building Automation Systems Manager provides university-wide leadership for the selection, installation, quality assurance, performance optimization, commissioning support, troubleshooting strategy, and technical governance of building automation systems across the campus portfolio. The position has a $1 million capital budget for developing, implementing, and maintaining a comprehensive controls and systems performance program that ensures building systems function safely, reliably, efficiently, and in alignment with design intent, operational requirements, occupant needs, and institutional sustainability goals. This role leads the corrective maintenance and controls support function for new and existing building automation systems; establishes standards for performance validation, documentation, and acceptance; oversees technical staff and external service providers; and serves as the department's subject matter expert for controls-related system performance, optimization, and lifecycle planning. Utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, the position supports the university's commitment to operational excellence, reduced energy consumption, deferred maintenance reduction, and progress toward carbon neutrality. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and talk or hear. The employee must be able to lift and/or occasionally move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The employee can frequently be exposed to moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; and risk of radiation and the potential for electrical shock. The employee will occasionally be exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, extreme heat, and/or extreme cold. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. The employee must be willing to be on-call in case of emergency.
Responsibilities
- Lead, direct, and evaluate the work of senior staff and vendors responsible for the troubleshooting, repair, optimization, and performance verification of campus building automation systems.