BAS and Energy System Administrator

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Overview



Required Skills and Abilities



Preferred Skills and Abilities

Principal Responsibilities

1. Define requirements & standards for design, operation, and maintenance of building automation systems and network on three campuses, and including JCI, Siemens, ALC, and Tridium systems. 2. Serve as primary point of contact for ITS in supporting network development, health, & security, as well as server requirements for the building automation system.  Provide appropriate training & technical specification information to ITS to facilitate ongoing collaboration and planning. 3. Coordinate with necessary personnel in Facilities Operations to establish and enforce a process to ensure long-term building automation system integrity, including hard-copy and electronic documentation of installed systems, software library, programming logic archives, graphical interface, user access, and overall change management needs. 4. Convene regularly-scheduled meetings with building automation vendors on campus to review campus-wide building automation administrative issues, including active projects, staffing, planned upgrades, training, integration challenges, network health, and technical developments. 5. Administer annual software service agreements with each building automation vendor that includes planned upgrades, system enhancements, software updates, network and security scans. 6. Evaluate and manage initiatives, in partnership with Operations, associated with campus-level building automation system and performance, which may include automatic fault diagnostics and detection, seasonal system scheduling, metering, load shed activities, and other activities that utilize and impact the building automation system as a whole. 7. Manage additional building automation system projects as necessary by retaining qualified outside engineering consultants and contractors.  Prepare work scopes and/or requests for proposal to support project execution.  Oversee engineering consultants and contractors to ensure high quality project delivery as well as conformance to established schedule and budget.  Maintain involvement in and/or directly oversee project execution and represent findings in oral and/or written format as needed. 8. Perform analysis of building-level system performance and investigation of system issues within priority campus buildings to direct, support, or complete formulation & implementation of energy projects as well as maintaining continued efficient system operation. 9. Coordinate with necessary personnel across Facilities Operations, as well as outside consultants and contractors, to communicate and address building performance & energy issues. 10. Communicate with university customers, (i.e. heads of colleges, deans, department heads, business managers, students, outside contractors) to provide data, information about energy performance processes & methodology, and address system performance issues. 11. Participate in the formulation, design, construction, & commissioning of projects overseen by the capital projects group.  Review the work as needed of design professionals with respect to University objectives & design standards, integration, operability and maintainability and cost-effectiveness.  Provide feedback & assistance to project managers & design professionals regarding all aspects of anticipated building performance & controls system design. 12. Support the project turnover processes with regard to building automation system, including verifying appropriateness of graphical interface, trending, alarming, system documentation, and ongoing performance. 13. Manage building performance & energy projects as needed by retaining qualified engineering consultants and contractors.  Prepare work scopes/requests for proposal to support project execution.  Oversee engineering consultants & contractors to ensure high quality project delivery as well as conformance to established schedule and budget. Maintain involvement in or directly oversee project execution and present findings. Required Education and Experience Bachelor’s degree in engineering, electrical, environmental, energy, automation engineering or related technical field and 8 years related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Job Posting Date

09/11/2026

Job Category

Professional

Bargaining Unit

NON

Compensation Grade

Administration & Operations

Compensation Grade Profile

Manager; Program Leader (26)

Salary Range

$92,000.00 - $146,750.00

Time Type

Part time

Duration Type

Temporary / Casual (Fixed Term)

Work Model

On-site

Background Check Requirements

All candidates for employment will be subject to pre-employment background screening for this position, which may include motor vehicle, DOT certification, drug testing and credit checks based on the position description and job requirements. All offers are contingent upon the successful completion of the background check. For additional information on the background check requirements and process visit "Learn about background checks" under the Applicant Support Resources section of Careers on the It's Your Yale website.

Health Requirements

Certain positions have associated health requirements based on specific job responsibilities. These may include vaccinations, tests, or examinations, as required by law, regulation, or university policy.

Posting Disclaimer

Salary offers are determined by a candidate’s qualifications, experience, skills, and education in relation to the position requirements, along with the role’s grade profile and current internal and external market conditions.

The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the essential functions that will be required of the position and should not be construed as a declaration of specific duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees will be assigned specific job-related duties through  their hiring department.

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