BAS Service Project Manager

Legence • San Jose, CA

3d • $125,000 - $175,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The BAS Service Project Manager leads Building Automation System (BAS) service projects from planning through closeout while maintaining an active field presence. This working project manager role combines project ownership with hands-on technical leadership, including field mentorship, troubleshooting, startup, commissioning, customer coordination, and project closeout.

The position is accountable for project scope, schedule, budget, safety, quality, documentation, customer satisfaction, and profitability. The manager leads technicians in the field, anticipates project risks, and ensures systems are complete, tested, and well documented. The role also supports job walks, scope development, estimate review, technician development, customer demonstrations, turnover, and warranty handoff.

The position is full-time and onsite in San Jose, California. The posted base salary range is $125,000–$175,000 per year, with actual compensation based on skills, experience, and work location.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience delivering BAS service, retrofit, upgrade, integration, repair, or modernization projects.
• Strong working knowledge of BAS field execution, including installation, startup, troubleshooting, networking, graphics, alarms, trends, sequences, commissioning, and functional testing.
• Ability to balance hands-on field leadership with project controls, financial awareness, documentation, and customer communication.
• Ability to read project scope and field documentation, assess existing conditions, identify execution risks, and develop practical work plans.
• Experience coordinating technicians, subcontractors, vendors, customers, site access, outages, and project turnover activities.
• Strong communication, organization, problem-solving, mentoring, and follow-through skills.
• Commitment to safe work practices, quality, accountability, and dependable customer outcomes.
• Current U.S. work authorization; visa sponsorship is not available.

Responsibilities

• Own assigned project scope, schedule, budget, customer communication, change control, risk management, documentation, and closeout.
• Review project handoff information and develop execution plans, field sequences, labor and material plans, testing approaches, and completion criteria.
• Coordinate technicians, subcontractors, vendors, site access, shutdowns, technical support, and commissioning activities.
• Monitor labor, committed costs, billing, forecasts, projected margin, and schedule performance.
• Document, price, and obtain approval for scope changes before work proceeds when required.
• Lead technicians on active BAS service projects and maintain a productive field presence.
• Perform or directly support installation, startup, programming coordination, graphics verification, network integration, troubleshooting, commissioning, and functional testing.
• Validate field conditions, installation quality, point operation, sequences, alarms, trends, graphics, and system performance.
• Complete or direct redlines, field markups, testing records, system backups, and as-built updates.
• Confirm systems are ready for customer demonstration, turnover, and acceptance.
• Coach technicians in planning, installation, startup, troubleshooting, networking, commissioning, documentation, and customer communication.
• Review field work, provide feedback, and correct issues to prevent rework or customer concerns.
• Identify technician skill gaps and recommend training, field exposure, or escalation support.
• Develop technician independence while maintaining expectations for safety, quality, accountability, and documentation.
• Model professional field leadership and customer-facing behavior.
• Serve as the primary customer contact during field execution and communicate progress, access needs, outages, risks, decisions, changes, testing, and upcoming impacts.
• Manage customer expectations and resolve concerns with documented follow-through.
• Coordinate customer demonstrations, operator orientation, acceptance, turnover, and warranty handoff.
• Maintain project files, test evidence, backups, graphics archives, redlines, as-builts, action logs, and customer decisions.
• Deliver closeout packages, including applicable O&M information, warranties, functional test results, training records, and acceptance documentation.
• Complete financial and administrative closeout and communicate warranty items, backlog, risks, and next actions to the appropriate service owner.
• Capture lessons learned and apply them to future work.
• Participate in customer job walks for BAS service projects, retrofits, upgrades, integrations, repairs, and modernization opportunities.
• Document existing conditions, system architecture, equipment, points, interfaces, access limitations, shutdown requirements, customer constraints, and field execution risks.
• Validate labor assumptions, technician skill requirements, material quantities, software and licensing needs, subcontractor requirements, startup and commissioning effort, travel, and schedule impacts.
• Support sales and estimating resources with technically executable scope development.
• Review assigned estimates for technical accuracy, constructability, labor realism, material completeness, margin risk, assumptions, exclusions, and customer dependencies.
• Identify scope gaps, unclear responsibilities, long-lead items, sequence and integration risks, and required clarifications before proposal release.
• Use actual project labor, cost, rework, and lessons learned to improve future estimating accuracy.

Benefits

• 401(k) plan with company match, currently dollar-for-dollar up to 4% of eligible pay, with immediate vesting.
• Employer-provided medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Employee Assistance Program and accident and illness coverage.
• Employer-provided basic life insurance and AD&D coverage valued at $50,000, with voluntary additional coverage available.
• Flexible non-accrual vacation, separate from California sick leave.
• Company holidays per policy.
• Business travel and related expenses reimbursed per company policy.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed