Instrumentation & Controls Engineer

About the role

The Staff (I&C) provides campus-level leadership for Building Management Systems (BMS) and Electrical Power Monitoring Systems (EPMS) within mission-critical environments. This role oversees and guides a multi-building campus location and serves as the primary campus contact for technical critical client discussions across both disciplines, while developing the Engineers and Technicians who keep those systems running.

Responsibilities

• Tenant Program Leadership: Lead the controls architecture and execution for specific tenant programs and their associated buildings, ensuring complete alignment with Crusoe's overarching operational goals.
• Standardization & Architectural Development: Draft, develop, and meticulously maintain rigorous enterprise control standards. This encompasses foundational elements like PLC code and SCADA UDT primitives, as well as broader architectural concepts such as lower-level networking approaches, Device Level Ring (DLR) topologies, and protocol methodologies.
• Design Validation: Professionally review design deliverables from internal teams and external partners to ensure strict adherence to established control system architectures, capabilities, and standards.
• Cross-Departmental Support: Provide expert technical support and guidance to tangential departments, ensuring smooth handoffs, strategic alignment on system architecture, and robust lifecycle management of control systems.
• Evaluation: Evaluate complex tenant requirements against established Crusoe standards, driving technical consensus and compliance across global projects.
• Deviation Management: Drive impact evaluations when project deviations are required, analyzing risks and communicating technical findings clearly with the wider project team.
• System Optimization: Weigh the pros and cons of various control system capabilities to drive precise requirements, ensuring optimal facility resiliency and performance.
• Client Relations: Serve as the primary contact for technical critical client discussions within your discipline, using strong customer-facing skills and professional communication to manage relationships.
• Mentorship: Manage and develop Technicians (1 and 2) and Engineers (1, 2, and Senior) through structured On-the-Job Training, covering both BMS and EPMS technical fundamentals.

Requirements

• Extensive Experience: 8+ years of experience in Instrumentation & Controls with a track record across Building Automation/Management Systems and Power Monitoring/SCADA systems in data centers or large-scale industrial facilities.
• Comprehensive understanding of MEP systems technical documentation and building engineering drawings, including Mechanical P&IDs, Sequence of Operations (SOO), Electrical One-Lines (SLD), Points Lists, and MEP asset documentation.
• Mandatory Education: A Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Systems Engineering (or equivalent extensive field experience).
• Platform Mastery: Proven expertise and hands-on experience across several major controls platforms, with a deep understanding of their unique capabilities and networking architectures. Strong working knowledge of Allen-Bradley PLCs and Ignition SCADA (Perspective).
• Decisive Leadership: A demonstrated ability to leverage your extensive background to make sound, independent professional decisions while effectively utilizing the expertise of the team around you.
• Communication Excellence: Strong interpersonal skills necessary to articulate technical deviations, architectural strategies, project impacts, and system requirements to diverse internal and external stakeholders. Strong client-facing communication skills, with experience serving as a primary technical point of contact for customers.
• Bonus Points: Platform Specifics: Deep, hands-on experience utilizing Ignition and Rockwell automation platforms. Experience designing or supporting MQTT-based Unified Namespace architectures.
• Mission-Critical Tenure: Extended career tenure within mission-critical industries, such as high-availability data centers or advanced power generation. Experience supporting commissioning programs (L3 to L5) at a campus or multi-building scale.
• Operations Insight: Tangential experience in maintenance or facility operations, providing a holistic, full-lifecycle view of industrial control systems.