Building Automation System (BAS) / Controls Engineer

Creating High-Performance Buildings Through Technology - Building Automation System (BAS)/Controls Engineer - Raleigh, NC

Join a collaborative team of engineering professionals where you'll have the opportunity to lead innovative building automation and controls projects while helping grow and develop a high-performing team. In this role, you'll work with commercial, local government, state, and federal clients throughout the Southeast, applying emerging technologies to solve complex building and infrastructure challenges. You'll provide leadership in BAS and control system design, commissioning and system startup, drawing development, and specification writing, while collaborating closely with mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and structural teams. You'll also play a key role in shop drawing and submittal reviews, construction site observations, and field investigations, helping ensure successful project delivery from concept through completion. This position offers the opportunity to expand your technical expertise, mentor others, and make a lasting impact on the performance and efficiency of the facilities we design.

Dewberry’s Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, and Structural (MEPS) team includes a large group focused on design services for nationwide clients in specialized facility types and specialized design services. Our experience includes high-performance buildings, hospitals, net zero/renewable energy technologies, microgrid and energy resilience design, and a broad set of other MEPS services. Our MEPS team contains subject matter experts (SME), many of whom are in leadership roles in international professional organizations such as ASHRAE.  Our repeat clients include universities, healthcare systems, state, local, and federal government agencies, and large global industrial manufacturers, among others. Our MEPS service line is ranked #36 nationally among MEP Giants. 

• Develop project-specific control schematic diagrams, sequences of operation, and specifications.

• Field evaluations of existing control systems to assess opportunities for upgrades

• Some project management including scoping work, scheduling resources, and estimating cost.

• Provide controls-related technical leadership to junior staff.

• Review BAS/control systems designed by others
• Interface with control system contractors and integrators
• Directly interface with clients
• Coordinate work with others within the Dewberry Family of Companies.

• • Four-year degree in engineering-related field preferred. High school diploma required.
  • Professional Registration preferred.
  • 10+ years directly applicable BAS/HVAC/controls design experience
  • Direct experience working with common BAS manufacturer’s systems and components – JCI, Honeywell, Schneider Electric, Siemens, Distech, Niagara platform.
  • Extensive knowledge of MEP systems as they relate to control systems.
  • Experience in commissioning of HVAC/Building Automation systems is preferred
  • Working knowledge of IP network configuration and topology as applicable to Building Automation Systems
  • Proficiency with AutoCAD/Revit is preferred.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills including experience in dealing with other employees and external clients.
  • Ability to investigate and troubleshoot HVAC and control systems through client’s front-end interface and through field investigations of HVAC systems.
  • Ability to providecontrols-related technical leadership to teams of professional and non-professional staff.
  • Familiarity with industrial PLC/SCADA systems
  • Experience recommending changes in cost estimates and scopes of work when necessary.
  • Ability to work under own direction and interface directly with the client.
  • Pursuit of registrations, accreditations, and continuing education related to Dewberry areas of practice and candidates’ level of expertise will be encouraged.

Do not meet every single requirement? At Dewberry we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for our employees. So, if you are excited about this role, but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the position description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may just be the right candidate for this or other opportunities.

*At this time, Dewberry will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.

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