Data Center Building Automation Engineer, Associate Consultant
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About the role
Accelerate possibilities. The WSP Data Center CoE (Center of Excellence) is growing, and we’re looking for smart, responsive, collaborative people to join us. Our CoE is 100% focused on data centers—supporting the world’s leading AI and cloud infrastructure companies. You’ll work to help tackle our clients’ biggest challenges: Where to build? How to secure power and water? How to develop responsibly and become a valued part of the community? AI is transforming life from scientific discoveries to smarter transportation and more sustainable communities. Data centers make it possible.
With us, you can build impact, deliver remarkable projects, and grow your career while shaping the future of the data center industry.
This Opportunity
WSP is currently initiating a search for a Data Center Building Automation and Controls Engineer, Associate Consultant for our New York City office.
As a Building Automation Controls Engineer with us, you will work with senior engineers to design automation control and monitoring systems serving data centers. Applications include heat rejection systems such as industrial air handling units and chilled water plants as well as integration to intelligent HVAC and electrical power monitoring systems (EPMS). Design activities include drawing and specification development for control products, points lists and Sequence of Operations.
Your Impact
- Work in a team or independently, planning and executing engineering tasks within projects
- Demonstrate significant understanding of the range of services provided by the WSP engineering teams & related practices
- Independently, under general supervision, support the team during proposal design, and construction stages of projects
- Execute controls design of complex projects
- Work within multi-discipline project teams to develop drawing and specification documents for issuance to architects, contractors and building owners.
- Attend client meetings and contribute to discussions
- Collaborate and coordinate with internal project discipline team members and external equipment vendors and manufacturers
- Communicate complex control and monitoring concepts and decisions to clients and stakeholders
- Integrate complex mechanical & electrical engineering requirements into larger facility controls and monitoring designs
- Interact regularly with clients, which includes maintaining current relationships and developing new relationships
- Perform all aspects of controls designs, review systems, and drawings prior to issuance
- Survey and evaluate existing conditions
- Perform construction administration tasks
Who You Are
The ideal candidate will possess experience with HVAC or process control applications from a controls systems vendor, commissioning agent, or design consultant. Candidates should have strong communication skills, and an interest in liaising with internal and external design, client and construction team members.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
- 2+ years of experience in designing control systems for the high performing, commercial, industrial or mission critical/data center buildings
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with applicable software packages including AutoCAD, Revit
- Knowledge of building, mechanical, electrical and energy codes
- Ability to organize and present design information to project staff
- Attention to detail, highly organized, self-starter
- Ability to travel to project sites
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical or Computer Engineering
- EIT or Registered Professional Engineer (PE), if applicable
- Mission Critical/Data Center experience highly preferred
- Experience with international projects
WSP Benefits
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation
Expected Salary (all locations): $95,000 - $116,000
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
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WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
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