Principal Controls SME

Skills

About the Role

You will review control-system designs, oversee vendors and quality assurance, verify installations, and witness commissioning. You will validate turnover documentation, provide controls training to facility operations staff, and apply operational lessons to controls standards and future designs.

Requirements

• 7+ years of controls experience in programming, start-up, and commissioning of complex systems
• Experience in critical environments and critical-facility operations
• Knowledge of controls-system design, maintenance, troubleshooting, testing, and construction
• Knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and life-safety systems in critical facilities
• Ability to interpret sequences of operation, blueprints, CAD drawings, and controls diagrams
• Experience managing programming backups, configuration files, and version control
• Data center experience preferred
• PLC programming experience preferred
• IT or networking certification preferred
• Equipment field-service engineering or manufacturer representative experience preferred
• Use of AI tools to improve workflows with measurable results preferred

Responsibilities

• Review controls designs, sequences of operation, alarms, instrumentation, and network architecture
• Oversee controls quality assurance, vendor programming, system configuration, upgrades, and factory tests
• Verify controls installations and identify operability and quality issues
• Witness Level 3–5 controls and automation commissioning
• Review programming, document operational findings, and verify corrective-action closure
• Verify turnover documentation, backups, licenses, credentials, spare modules, and maintenance inputs
• Provide controls training and support to facility operations staff
• Incorporate operational lessons into controls standards and future project designs