Controls Manager, Texas

About the role

The Data Center Capacity Delivery team is seeking a Controls Manager to oversee the building management systems and electrical power monitoring systems (BMS/EPMS) within Amazon data centers. This role requires managing remote teams in Texas, traveling up to 50% of the time, and overseeing the deployment and service of these systems.

Responsibilities

• Manage remote teams in Texas
• Travel required between 35 - 50% up to 50% across Texas to support construction and data center product delivery
• Develop, implement and track team goals. Reporting to stakeholders and leadership
• Experienced interviewer, able to develop launch plans for new hires, and identify team needs
• Experienced in installation, programming, and troubleshooting of BMS/EPMS systems and/or industrial controls systems
• Strong writing skills, able to articulate thoughts clearly and concisely
• Understanding of: electrical diagrams, control diagrams, building operations, control circuits, industrial HVAC
• Ability to ascertain customer needs to help develop project scope and specifications
• Ability to manage project engineering to determine scope of work relative to the design intent of the customer needs
• Ability to read and interpret specifications. Implementing specifications as they apply the work environment
• Experience in development of drawings for control panels, power distribution, junction boxes. Included in the drawings are the general arrangement, internal layout, schematics and interconnection and wire diagrams
• Experience developing logic diagrams in the International Automation format for complex logic devices such as Programmable Logical Controller and Distributed Control System
• Experience performing inspections, testing, and commissioning of the facility systems
• Provide technical assistance as needed to internal customers
• Cookordination project work internally within the department and externally with other departments to ensure on-time completion of projects within budget

Qualifications

• 4+ years of general contractor and vendor management work (request for proposals, bidding, change orders, quality control, RFI/submittal tracking) associated with construction and project execution experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or an equivalent engineering science plus 8+ years of relevant controls experience, OR 12+ years of relevant controls experience in lieu of a degree
• 3+ years of experience directly managing, mentoring, leading, and coaching teams of controls professionals
• 3+ years of experience hiring, promoting, disciplining, and developing teams of controls professionals
• 4+ years of experience in controls management of large, complex projects involving large-scale mechanical, electrical, and controls systems
• 3+ years of experience managing deployment of complex electrical and mechanical controls systems, including large scale power distribution or generation, and cooling systems
• Experience working with cross function teams to deliver complex construction projects