Amazon

Controls Manager, Texas

Amazon$129K — $193K *
Technical Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or equivalent engineering experience and 8+ years in controls.
  • 12+ years of relevant controls experience without a degree.
  • 3+ years managing and developing teams of controls professionals.
  • 4+ years managing complex projects with large mechanical, electrical, and control systems.
  • 3+ years deploying complex electrical and mechanical controls systems.

Responsibilities

  • Manage remote teams across Texas ensuring project delivery.
  • Travel 35-50% across Texas for construction and data center support.
  • Develop and implement team goals, reporting progress to stakeholders.
  • Conduct interviews and develop onboarding plans for new hires.
  • Oversee installation, programming, and troubleshooting of BMS/EPMS systems.
  • Read electrical and control diagrams to ascertain project needs.
  • Coordinate project engineering to align with customer design intent.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including dental and vision.
  • 401(k) matching plan.
  • Paid time off and parental leave.
  • Mental health support and employee assistance program (EAP).
  • Flexible spending accounts and adoption reimbursement coverage.
Full Job Description
The Data Center Capacity Delivery team is looking for exceptional individuals to join our organization as a Controls Manager, responsible for the building management systems and electrical power monitoring system (BMS/EPMS) deployment and service within Amazon data centers. If you are passionate about the Customer Experience, think and act globally and have the ability to contribute to major new innovations in the area of building controls and automation this is the challenge you are looking for!

The ideal candidate will have experience managing a team of highly technically skilled individuals. The candidate will possess industrial Controls System experience, project management, mechanical, electrical or technology background that enables him/her to undertake the challenges of sophisticated controls platforms and a demonstrated ability to think broadly and strategically in aligning building controls and automation with the larger objectives of the business.

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we're the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain - and we're looking for talented people who want to help.

You'll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You'll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you'll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Key job responsibilities

- Manage remote teams in Texas

- Travel required between 35 -50% up to 50% across Texas to support construction and data center product delivery.

- Develop, implement and track team goals. Reporting to stakeholders and leadership.

- Experienced interviewer, able to develop launch plans for new hires, and identify team needs.

- Experienced in installation, programming, and troubleshooting of BMS/EPMS systems and/or industrial controls systems.

- Strong writing skills, able to articulate thoughts clearly and concisely

- Understanding of: electrical diagrams, control diagrams, building operations, control circuits, industrial HVAC.

- Ability to ascertain customer needs to help develop project scope and specifications.

- Ability to manage project engineering to determine scope of work relative to the design intent of the customer needs.

- Ability to read and interpret specifications. Implementing specifications as they apply the work environment.

- Experience in development of drawings for control panels, power distribution, junction boxes. Included in the drawings are the general arrangement, internal layout, schematics and interconnection and wire diagrams.

- Experience developing logic diagrams in the International Automation format for complex logic devices such as Programmable Logical Controller and Distributed Control System.

- Experience performing inspections, testing, and commissioning of the facility systems.

- Provide technical assistance as needed to internal customers.

- Coordinate project work internally within the department and externally with other departments to ensure on-time completion of projects within budget.

About the team

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience delivering cross functional projects

- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or an equivalent engineering science plus 8+ years of relevant controls experience, OR 12+ years of relevant controls experience in lieu of a degree.

- 3+ years of experience directly managing, mentoring, leading, and coaching teams of controls professionals.

- 3+ years of experience hiring, promoting, disciplining, and developing teams of controls professionals.

- 4+ years of experience in controls management of large, complex projects involving large-scale mechanical, electrical, and controls systems.

- 3+ years of experience managing deployment of complex electrical and mechanical controls systems, including large scale power distribution or generation, and cooling systems.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Master's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

- 6 Yrs. Directly managing, mentoring, leading, and coaching teams of controls professionals

- 8 Yrs. Exp. Project Management and Vendor Management

- 3 Yrs. Exp. In Data Center system-level architecture and electrical engineering principals

- 3 Yrs. Exp. In Data Center system-level architecture and mechanical engineering principals

- Experience designing data centers or critical MEP infrastructure

- Certified as a Professional Engineer (PE)

- Prior AWS/Amazon experience

- 5+ Yr. Military Service

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, TX, Dallas - 129,200.00 - 193,000.00 USD annually

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