Building Management Systems & Life Safety Engineer

Responsibilities

• Develop a 5-to-10-year master plan and strategic roadmap for modernization and control migration including cost-benefit analyses
• Drive the modernization of legacy proprietary controls to open-protocol frameworks and oversee comprehensive fire alarm lifecycle management
• Ensure that facility automation systems strictly adhere to federal energy conservation goals, IT/OT cybersecurity mandates, and rigorous life-safety standards (NFPA 72 and NFPA 101)
• Oversee comprehensive testing, maintenance, and certification
• Manage the long-term reliability and lifecycle of the site’s control and life safety architectures
• Review engineering designs for system upgrades
• Ensure compliance with NFPA 72 and NFPA 101, federal cybersecurity requirements
• Leverage BMS data for energy savings and evaluate engineering submittals for compatibility
• Provide technical direction to field crews for sequences of operation, alarm thresholds, and graphics
• Collaborate with IT security for IoT and controller patching
• Quality assurance checks on code and logic changes
• Provide Compliance reports for NFPA 72 inspections
• Lead root-cause analyses for failures and implement mitigation strategies
• Support technical reviews of any equipment replacement RFI’s/quotes to ensure compliance with the technical requirements
• Identify, communicate, and deconflict tasks, deliverables and project impacts
• Interface with Government, contractors, and project partner staff for tasks, updates, and status
• Responsible for monthly, annual, and project milestone review assessments and reports

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience with integrated control networks and life-safety systems
• Flexible in adapting to deadlines, changing schedules, competing priorities, and unpredictable events
• Thorough, detail oriented, and organized, with excellent time management skills and ability to prioritize tasks
• Familiar with and able to present data and recommendations to a diverse audience of project managers, engineers, technical staff, and contractors
• Superb verbal and written communication skills
• Self-motivated problem solver and independent thinker