Principal Controls Operations Lead — Data Center Operations

About the role

Serve as the most senior technical authority for BMS, EPMS, PLC, and equipment-level controls across the fleet. Own every material BMS change across the fleet and serve as final technical approver for high-consequence changes. Standardize where it matters, enforce change control everywhere it matters.

• Lead technical and operational site audits on sequences, alarming, trending, integration health, and cybersecurity, and own the remediation roadmap through closure.
• Personally sign off on controls operational readiness and the handover from commissioning to steady-state operations for every new site.
• Feed operational learnings back into design and manufacturing as we shift to repeatable, productized builds, including standing up a full BMS in two days.
• Author and approve high-risk MOPs, EOPs, and AOPs, and lead root cause analysis on significant controls events through to closure.
• Travel 50 to 75% across the fleet. The work is in the field, not at a desk.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and execution of 10s to 100s of GWs of data centers this decade.
• Build real-time load control systems, pushing the limits of MEP infrastructure and behind-the-meter systems.
• Automate L4/L5 commissioning and functional tests for fully modular data center builds.
• Develop autonomous robotic solutions for data center deployment.

Requirements

The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.

• You've spent a career programming, commissioning, and operating controls on complex central plants and critical environments. You can walk into any site and own the front-end within a day.
• You have platform-agnostic command of modern BMS/BAS (Ignition, Niagara, Metasys, EcoStruxure) earned in the field, plus PLC programming on at least one major platform.
• You're fluent across BACnet, Modbus, SNMP, and the other major controls protocols, and you know the mechanical, electrical, and fire/life safety systems they coordinate.
• You've authored and executed high-risk controls MOPs in live critical environments, and led root cause analysis on significant events through to closure.
• You hold integrators, OEMs, and vendors to a programming and documentation standard without burning the relationship.
• You teach. Operational health assessments, RCAs, sequences, and design feedback are second nature, and you build the people around you up.

Qualifications

• Bonus: Hyperscale or large colocation at hundreds of MW+.
• Bonus: EPMS platforms and DCIM.
• Bonus: Historians and scripting in Python or SQL.
• Bonus: OT network segmentation and cybersecurity.

Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity).
• Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.

Pay

Compensation Range: $220K - $260K