Staff Controls Engineer
About The Position
Fluidstack is seeking a Staff Controls Engineer to lead the controls design development team. This role involves owning template designs, SOOs, points lists, BOMs, and Division 25 specifications for modular data center builds. The engineer will set the technical direction for controls design, establish standards, platforms, and reference architectures for the entire fleet. They will drive design decisions across mechanical, electrical, commissioning, and construction to ensure controls design does not impede site schedules. Additionally, the role includes growing the team by hiring controls engineers and improving the quality of their design work, ensuring the quality and repeatability of all design packages for faster and cleaner builds.
Requirements
- Led a controls or design engineering team, owning both the technical output and the people producing it.
- Set controls design standards, reference architectures, or specifications that others built from across multiple projects.
- Authored or owned Division 25 integrated automation specifications, and understand what separates a spec that holds up in the field from one that generates change orders.
- Written sequences of operations and seen them through to working code.
- Make design decisions fast and defend them across mechanical, electrical, and construction stakeholders.
- Hired controls engineers and grown people from competent to excellent, and other teams trust the work your team ships.
Nice To Haves
- Modular or productized data center delivery.
- Data center mechanical and electrical systems (chiller plants, CRAH/CRAC, fan wall units, switchgear).
- BMS and SCADA platforms over BACnet and Modbus.
- CSI MasterFormat and Division 25 authorship.
- Building a controls design function up from a small team.
Responsibilities
- Lead the controls design development team, owning the template designs, SOOs, points lists, BOMs, and Division 25 specifications.
- Set the technical direction for controls design, deciding the standards, platforms, and reference architectures for the whole fleet.
- Drive design decisions to resolution across mechanical, electrical, commissioning, and construction.
- Grow the team, hiring controls engineers and raising the bar on the design work they produce.
- Own the quality and repeatability of every design package that leaves the team.
Benefits
- Commitment to pay equity and transparency.
- Equal Employment Opportunity Employer status.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
