Lead Field Engineer

About the role

This role demands proficiency of ALC and/or building automation systems and the flexibility to travel as project priorities shift. If you are a proactive leader who thrives on end-to-end accountability and solving high-stakes automation challenges, you’ll fit right in.

Responsibilities

• Turn-Key Delivery: Own the install, commissioning, and troubleshooting of DDC systems. Deliver full software solutions, including sequencing, graphics, and alarms.
• Technical Leadership: Act as the lead resource and mentor for junior techs. Serve as a trusted advisor to customers, ensuring predictable, high-quality outcomes.
• Risk & Coordination: Partner with Project Managers to manage risk and align execution. Coordinate with teams to ensure clear communication and reliable delivery.
• Travel & Flexibility: Travel as needed and stay adaptable to shifting priorities, project demands, and field workloads.
• Proficiency & Growth: Demonstrate deep proficiency with ALC products, system architectures, and ASHRAE guidelines. Apply this expertise to deliver safe, high-performance systems across complex customer environments.
• Project Integrity: Maintain expert-level documentation, including commissioning logs and progress tracking, to ensure safe and compliant system delivery.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED.
• 4+ years of professional experience in Building Automation or HVAC
• Must possess a valid, current Driver’s License and be insurable by the company’s insurance carrier.
• Able to lift items up to 50 lbs and perform physical tasks such as squatting and climbing for extended periods.
• Capable of working over 8 feet above grade and proficient in the use of ladders and motorized lift equipment.

Qualifications

• Leadership & Mentorship: Proven ability to act as a technical authority and mentor junior engineers in a collaborative field environment.
• Complex Project Delivery: Executes turnkey building automation solutions with minimal oversight, focusing on high-quality field execution and resource management.
• Advanced Integration & Networking: High skills-level proficiency in integrating diverse platforms and managing complex TCP/IP and wireless networking.
• System Troubleshooting: Advanced diagnostic skills for resolving high-level technical challenges in controls, sensors, and software, at the equipment and system level.
• Training & Communication: Dedicated to delivering site-specific technical training to building owners and operators while maintaining clear documentation.

Skills

• Proven experience with ALC products and system architectures.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues.
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills.
• Effective communication and training abilities.
• Experience with building automation systems and HVAC.

Benefits

• Health Care Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision; Wellness incentives
• Retirement Benefits
• Time off and Leave: Paid vacation days, up to 15 days; paid sick days, up to 5 days; paid personal leave, up to 5 days; paid holidays, up to 13 days; birth and adoption leave; parental leave; family and medical leave; bereavement leave; jury duty leave; military leave; purchased vacation
• Disability: Short-term and long-term disability
• Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment
• Tax-Advantaged Accounts: Health Savings Account; Health Care Spending Account; Dependent Care Spending Account
• Tuition Assistance