Project Design Controls Engineer

As a Controls Engineer within the Fleet Remediation Engineering (FRE) team, you will lead the design, specification, and implementation of Building Management System (BMS) controls solutions for data center retrofit projects. You will bridge the gap between mechanical/electrical retrofit design and controls integration, ensuring that upgraded systems are properly monitored, controlled, and optimized across our existing fleet. This role combines deep controls engineering expertise with the fleet remediation mission of evolving our data centers to meet ever-changing customer needs at hyper-scale. You will use your Controls expertise to:

• Lead controls design and integration for mechanical retrofit projects across the existing data center fleet, ensuring BMS systems are properly specified, programmed, and commissioned.
• Develop and maintain controls design standards, specifications, and scope of work (SOW) documents specific to fleet remediation retrofit projects, aligning with global design standards.
• Collaborate with FRE mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, construction teams, commissioning, and operations stakeholders to deliver integrated controls solutions that support retrofit objectives.
• Serve as the central technical authority for BMS controls within FRE, managing and prioritizing controls scope across retrofit projects, legacy site enhancements, and capacity recovery initiatives.
• Perform controls design reviews on retrofit packages, identifying risks, gaps, and opportunities for optimization in monitoring and automation strategies.
• Coordinate with controls vendors and programmers on bid reviews, RFI support, controller drawings, MOPs, and code reviews, ensuring deliverables meet FRE standards.
• Develop and review control sequences of operation, control diagrams, point lists, and network architecture for retrofit applications including HVAC upgrades, power distribution modifications, and liquid cooling integrations.
• Interact with AWS cloud services and data analytics platforms to support data reporting, energy optimization, and operational intelligence initiatives.
• Anticipate roadblocks and risks in controls integration, providing escalation management and proactive solutions to maintain project timelines.
• Travel domestically and internationally as needed to support retrofit project initiatives, site surveys, and commissioning activities.
• Provide engineering judgment and design recommendations for controls scope despite uncertainty, particularly on legacy systems with limited documentation.

Basic qualifications

• 6+ years of industrial or commercial engineering in mission critical facilities including but not limited to: data centers, power generation or oil and gas facilities experience
• 2+ years of relevant discipline work, or 2+ years of data center or mission critical facilities (example: hospital, military facility, public safety facility, etc.) experience
• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, or Electrical Engineering, or related fields
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 25% of the role.

Preferred qualifications

• Professional Engineer License
• Experience with SCADA/BMS Controls system software or hardware
• 7+ years of industrial controls and automation experience
• Knowledge of Modbus, BACnet, and other industrial communication protocols.
• Experience with data center redundancy concepts, mechanical failure strategies, and failure mode analysis