Staff Instrumentation & Controls Engineer, Deployment

System Deployment & Execution

• Lead the field deployment, integration, and startup of automation solutions for BMS/EPMS systems, ensuring seamless integration and monitoring with electrical and cooling infrastructure.

Standardization & Implementation

• Enforce system standards, frameworks, and deployment patterns for controls, BMS, and EPMS rollouts across multiple projects and sites.

SCADA & Graphics Configuration

• Deploy and configure dashboards, HMIs, and operator workstations, ensuring site personnel have clear, functional visibility and control over complex building and power systems.

Startup Governance & Escalation Resolution

• Oversee system integrators during standard deployments and point-to-point checkouts to ensure strict compliance with design standards.
• Operate as the controls escalation point to troubleshoot complex automation integration, system inconsistencies, and network integration issues.

Protocol Integration & Troubleshooting

• Collaborate with design engineers, contractors, and OEM partners in the field to configure, integrate, and troubleshoot networks utilizing BACnet, Modbus, OPC-UA, and MQTT protocols.

Site Validation & Handover

• Conduct system testing, simulation, Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), and Site Acceptance Testing (SAT) to validate functionality, sequencing, and data accuracy prior to operational handover.

System Optimization & Turnover

• Ensure controls platforms correctly collect and push real-time and historical data, enabling performance insight and analysis.

Site Support & Training

• Mentor and train other controls engineers on control system operation, troubleshooting best practices, and execution methodology.

What You’ll Bring

• Extensive professional experience in the physical deployment, integration, and startup of PLC, SCADA, BMS, and EPMS platforms.
• Proven ability to successfully execute, deploy, and startup automation systems in data center or other high-availability environments.
• Deep hands-on familiarity with configuring and troubleshooting control protocols such as BACnet, Modbus, OPC-UA, and MQTT.
• Strong practical knowledge of HVAC, electrical systems, PLC/DDC logic, and industrial automation equipment operations.
• Demonstrated ability to translate engineering designs into physical installations and drive deployment timelines.
• A track record of solving complex automation challenges and diagnosing integration issues.

Bonus Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a relevant engineering or technical field.
• Relevant professional certifications in specific PLC or SCADA platforms (Ignition and Rockwell preferred).
• Experience ensuring controls implementations comply with industrial cybersecurity best practices.
• Passion for leveraging automation to meet energy efficiency and sustainability goals.