Controls Manager

About the role

The Controls Manager will lead, manage, and develop a team of Controls Engineers responsible for the construction support, commissioning, operation, troubleshooting, maintenance, and continuous improvement of BMS, EPMS, PLC, SCADA, and OT data systems across a large, mission-critical campus. This role will serve as the site technical leader for controls and monitoring systems, ensuring reliable, scalable, and secure performance across mechanical, electrical, and plant control infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and develop a team of Controls Engineers supporting building automation, industrial controls, SCADA, PLCs, EPMS, and OT data systems.
• Establish priorities, workload management, escalation paths, and technical expectations for the Controls Engineering team.
• Serve as the site subject matter expert and technical owner for controls and monitoring systems across mechanical, electrical, and campus-level infrastructure.
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of site mechanical, electrical, controls, and monitoring architectures, including chilled water plant controls, plant operation, electrical distribution monitoring, and campus-level system integration.
• Oversee implementation, commissioning, operation, troubleshooting, and optimization of PLC-based controls systems across mission-critical mechanical and electrical infrastructure.
• Provide leadership for Ignition front-end systems, including screens, tags, alarms, historian functions, user interfaces, integrations, reporting, standards, and long-term maintainability.
• Oversee MQTT-based data movement, edge messaging, enterprise messaging infrastructure, and related controls system integrations.
• Support database-backed controls, monitoring, alarming, reporting, analytics, and operational data workflows.
• Lead controls-related troubleshooting, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and lessons learned for building automation, PLC, SCADA, EPMS, power monitoring, and OT integration issues.
• Ensure integration and validation of power quality meters, including devices configured for continuous waveform monitoring, event capture, power quality analysis, and electrical system diagnostics.
• Partner with commissioning agents, contractors, vendors, and internal engineering teams to verify system performance, sequence execution, alarm behavior, trend collection, data integrity, and turnover documentation.
• Oversee site operations support related to control logic, plant staging, pumping sequences, valve control, temperature control, differential pressure strategies, and system performance.
• Drive operational readiness, site acceptance testing, integrated systems testing, and turnover of controls and monitoring systems from construction to operations.
• Ensure proper metering, trending, and data collection to support operational reporting, energy efficiency, reliability tracking, long-term optimization, and fleet-level reporting requirements.
• 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.
• Establish and maintain controls documentation standards, including sequence documentation, PLC logic records, Ignition standards, tag governance, alarm rationalization, network/interface documentation, and turnover packages.
• Lead training, coaching, and knowledge-sharing for site operations personnel and Controls Engineers on system functionality, alarm response, data interpretation, troubleshooting procedures, and operational best practices.
• Support development and continuous improvement of controls architecture, PLC programming practices, Ignition development, data modeling, alarm management, documentation, and operational procedures.
• Coordinate vendor and contractor support to ensure issues are resolved effectively, deliverables meet STACK standards, and systems remain aligned with long-term operational needs.
• Support off-hours troubleshooting, maintenance windows, emergency response, and critical operational events as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Controls, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience with building automation, industrial controls, SCADA, PLCs, EPMS, or mission-critical facility control systems.
• 3+ years of leadership experience managing engineers, technical specialists, controls technicians, automation teams, vendors, or multi-disciplinary technical resources.
• 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 lead troubleshooting of complex controls issues involving PLCs, SCADA, network connectivity, field devices, sensors, actuators, meters, databases, and operational systems.
• Demonstrated ability to build standards, develop repeatable processes, manage technical documentation, and drive consistency across complex systems.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage engineering, construction, operations, vendors, executives, 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

• Must be eligible to work in the United States.
• Must pass comprehensive background screening.

Skills

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Leadership and team-building abilities.
• Natural curiosity and drive for continual improvement.
• Technical depth in building automation, industrial controls, SCADA, PLCs, EPMS, and mission-critical facility control systems.
• Hands-on experience with Allen-Bradley PLCs, Ignition SCADA, and industrial communication protocols.
• Understanding of mechanical and electrical systems, including chilled water systems, chiller plants, pumping systems, heat rejection, and hydronic loops.
• Experience with power quality meters, MQTT-based data movement, and enterprise messaging infrastructure.
• 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

$182,000.00 - $204,000.00

Schedule

On-site

Why STACK?

• Competitive compensation package with strong benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401K program, flexible spending accounts, and a cell phone subsidy.
• Foster a culture of appreciation through peer-to-peer recognition and rewards programs.
• Fun is part of our DNA, with events, game nights, happy hours, and barbecues.
• We are growing, providing opportunities for career advancement.

Note to external agencies

We are not accepting any blind submissions or resumes/cvs from recruitment agencies. Any candidates sent to STACK Infrastructure, Inc. will not be accepted or considered as a submission without a signed agreement in place. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be deemed the sole property of STACK Infrastructure, Inc.