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Building Controls Solutions Architect
The Building Controls Solutions role involves leading edge design of integrated solutions (Building Systems Integration / Smart Building Solutions) for large, commercial projects across multiple vendors and technology sets.
The candidate will take responsibility for current and new technology from existing partners as well as technology evaluation and product introduction for new technologies to complement existing solutions within the company portfolio.
This role will have responsibility for the technical design and implementation of solutions and will be a technical point of contact liaising with the customer, vendors, project managers and implementation engineers.
The key day-to-day tasks are as follows;
- Integration of systems using various protocols (BACnet, Modbus, Dali, OPC, etc) & providing guidance to systems owners.
- Tridium Niagara - This covers anything from MQTT device configuration, JSON payload structuring and topic structuring
- Building Modelling (BRICK, Haystack & DBO are main standards), defining characteristics and relationships between different devices/assets in a building.
- Implementation of Asset & Point naming standards and ensuring that system owners are complying with this.
- Validating data being provided by system owners on a building network level and data being published to cloud platforms.
- Providing translation from native system protocols to Cloud IoT protocols, where other systems do not have the capabilities to do so.
- Liaising and working with our software department around requirements for our in house dashboard, which is used across multiple projects. This is anything from build-up of system pages, as well as the creation of FDD rules and energy/efficiency calculations.
Essential experience/requirements:
• BMS Commissioning Experience (multiple projects/3+ years)
• BMS Project/Design Engineering Experience (multiple projects/3+ years)
• Good understanding of HVAC & Building Controls
• Experience with multiple controller types - Tridium Niagara essential
• Basic understanding of BACnet, Modbus, IP
• Familiarity with MQTT/IoT Solutions
Preferred but not essential requirements/experience
• Experience with Building Modelling (BRICK, Haystack, DBO, etc)
• Familiarity with GCP, AWS or Azure Cloud Platforms
• Understanding of other building systems (lighting, fire, lifts, etc)
• Understanding/experience with Fault Detection Diagnosis (FDD)
• Energy/Efficiency calculations experience
• Experience with any other network protocols (OPC, KNX, M-bus, etc)
• Software engineering
