Controls Engineer

About the role

The Controls Engineer will play a pivotal role in supporting the construction, operation, and maintenance of BMS and EPMS systems at our new data center facilities in New Mexico. The position requires a comprehensive understanding of mechanical, electrical, controls, and monitoring architectures, as well as hands-on experience with various systems and protocols.

Responsibilities

• Develop a comprehensive understanding of mechanical, electrical, controls, and monitoring architectures, including chilled water plant controls, plant operation, electrical distribution monitoring, and campus-level system integration.
• Support the implementation, commissioning, operation, and optimization of PLC-based controls systems across mission-critical mechanical and electrical infrastructure.
• Maintain and troubleshoot Ignition front-end systems, including screens, tags, alarms, historian functions, user interfaces, integrations, and reporting.
• Work with databases supporting controls, monitoring, alarming, reporting, analytics, and operational data workflows.
• Partner with site operations teams to troubleshoot controls-related events, perform root cause analysis, and support corrective actions for building automation, PLC, SCADA, and EPMS-related systems.
• Support integration and validation of power quality meters, including devices configured for continuous waveform monitoring, event capture, power quality analysis, and electrical system diagnostics.
• Collaborate with commissioning agents, contractors, vendors, and internal engineering teams to verify system performance, sequence execution, alarm behavior, trend collection, data integrity, and turnover documentation.
• Ensure proper metering, trending, and data collection to support operational reporting, energy efficiency, reliability tracking, and long-term optimization.
• Partner with IT, cybersecurity, network, and monitoring teams to support secure and reliable connectivity for OT systems, PLCs, SCADA servers, MQTT brokers, databases, and field devices.
• Provide technical support and training to site personnel on controls system functionality, alarm response, data interpretation, and troubleshooting procedures.
• Support standards development and continuous improvement efforts for controls architecture, PLC programming practices, Ignition development, data modeling, alarm management, and documentation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Controls, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience with building automation, industrial controls, SCADA, PLCs, EPMS, or mission-critical facility control systems.
• Hands-on experience with Allen-Bradley PLCs, including PLC logic review, troubleshooting, field validation, and integration with supervisory systems.
• Experience with Ignition SCADA, including tag structures, alarm configuration, graphics, historian functions, scripting, reporting, and system integration.
• Strong understanding of mechanical systems, especially chilled water systems, chiller plants, pumping systems, heat rejection, and hydronic loops.
• Familiarity with electrical monitoring systems, power quality meters, and EPMS concepts in mission-critical environments.
• Experience with industrial communication protocols and integration methods, including some combination of EtherNet/IP, Modbus TCP, BACnet, SNMP, MQTT, and OPC UA.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex controls issues involving PLCs, SCADA, network connectivity, field devices, sensors, actuators, meters, and databases.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical issues to engineering, construction, operations, vendors, and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable working in a high-stress, fast-paced mission-critical environment with shifting priorities.
• Willingness to support off-hours troubleshooting, maintenance windows, emergency response, and critical operational events as needed.

Qualifications

• Eligible to work in the United States.
• Pass comprehensive background screening.

Skills

• Strong communication skills.
• Team building abilities.
• Natural curiosity and drive towards continual improvement.
• Experience supporting hyperscale, semiconductor, industrial, utility, or other large-scale mission-critical campuses.
• Ignition certification or advanced Ignition development experience.
• Experience with enterprise MQTT broker platforms.
• Experience with SEL power quality meters and relays.
• Working knowledge of SQL databases, preferably PostgreSQL, for data collection, reporting, analytics, and controls system integration.
• Understanding of OT cybersecurity concepts, network segmentation, authentication, certificate management, and secure access practices.

Benefits

• Healthcare, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Paid Leave Programs.
• Up to 15% domestic travel.

Pay

$160,000 - $195,000 annually with 10% bonus potential.

Schedule

On-site.