Engineer 2

About the role

The Engineer-2 position has a comprehensive commissioning and energy management role in the UNC's Energy Management unit.

Responsibilities

• Development of commissioning scope of work for capital building projects.
• Qualification-based selection of third‑party commissioning agents.
• Contract negotiation with commissioning agents.
• Oversight of commissioning work.
• Review of plans from designers.
• Review of equipment submittals.
• Assisting with development of basis of design documents.
• Coordination of functional testing and system training.
• General coordination between project team, UNC Facilities, and end users.
• Provide direct commissioning services for smaller capital building projects (customer funded or otherwise), including control schematic development.
• Provide retro‑commissioning services for smaller capital building projects, including BAS functional testing, troubleshooting, and training.
• Interface with complex mechanical and control systems supporting research lab space, including high‑containment (BSL‑3) labs and lab animal vivaria.
• Implementation and management of a continuous commissioning program for various building automation systems across the campus: creation of appropriate rules, identification of control points, integration of control points with software, and review of program effectiveness.
• Identify and analyze new energy and water conservation projects (scoping and life‑cycle cost analysis).
• Conduct building audits and drawing reviews to develop energy conservation projects with fundable cost estimations and savings calculations.
• Partner with engineering services and other units within UNC Facilities during implementation of energy conservation measures.
• Develop new strategies for optimizing HVAC systems to improve operational efficiencies while considering O&M concerns.
• Ensure projects are completed under budget and on schedule.
• Track issues encountered during each project in an Issues Log to ensure discrepancies are addressed properly and timely.
• Share lessons learnt with the team to improve internal processes.
• Provide technical support for building control technicians and EMCS system operators.
• Provide support on technical, process, and other aspects related to the energy management unit’s responsibilities, as needed by the supervisor.

Skills

• Familiarity with building energy modeling software such as Trane Trace and Bin data calculations (a plus).

Benefits

• Sign‑on bonus of $7,500 paid in two installments: $3,750 within 30 days of hire date and $3,750 12 months after hire date.