Facilities Systems Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Assess current CCTV, BMS, access control, intrusion, and fire/life-safety systems and supporting infrastructure.
• Develop reference architectures, technical standards, product recommendations, lifecycle roadmaps, and modernization priorities.
• Translate operational, security, safety, privacy, and regulatory requirements into designs, specifications, and acceptance criteria.
• Review construction drawings, risers, schematics, points lists, device schedules, coverage studies, network diagrams, and vendor submittals.
• Design for availability, scalability, maintainability, cybersecurity, interoperability, and safe failure modes.
• Identify obsolete, unsupported, or high-risk systems and recommend remediation or replacement.
• Develop device inventories, logical and physical network diagrams, connectivity requirements, port and protocol matrices, and data-flow documentation.
• Diagnose issues across field devices, controllers, gateways, applications, servers, and network paths before escalating IT-owned components.
• Partner with IT on segmentation, firewall policy, remote access, identity, certificates, logging, vulnerability management, backups, cloud connectivity, and incident response.
• Require vendors to follow approved network, cybersecurity, credential, patching, and remote-support standards.

Vendor and Technical Delivery

• Serve as Facilities' technical authority for vendors, contractors, consultants, system integrators, and service providers.
• Prepare and review scopes, technical specifications, bills of material, proposals, licensing models, warranties, and support requirements.
• Provide design review, installation oversight, commissioning support, functional testing, technical acceptance, and documentation review.
• Lead root-cause analysis for recurring or complex faults and hold vendors accountable for corrective action.
• Maintain approved-product standards, system configurations, asset inventories, diagrams, test records, and operational documentation.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, architecture, building systems, facilities management, construction technology, information technology, or a related discipline; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Five or more years of experience designing, implementing, or supporting building automation, physical-security, life-safety, or connected facilities systems.
• Demonstrated experience across several of the following: CCTV/VMS, BMS/BAS, access control, door hardware, fire alarm, low-voltage systems, structured cabling, or operational technology.
• Working knowledge of enterprise networking and cybersecurity as applied to IP-connected building systems.
• Experience reviewing technical drawings and vendor designs and supporting commissioning and acceptance testing.
• Strong technical troubleshooting, documentation, vendor-management, and stakeholder-communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional Engineer, Registered Architect, Certified Facility Manager, or relevant security, controls, fire-protection, or networking certification.
• Experience with BACnet, Modbus, APIs, building gateways, enterprise access-control platforms, and video-management systems.
• Experience supporting multi-site, campus, laboratory, manufacturing, warehouse, or other complex environments.
• Familiarity with operational-technology security frameworks and secure remote vendor access.