Building Automation Specialist - Utilities - Operations **Galveston, Texas, United States** **New** Engineering, Crafts, Trades & Labor UTMB Health Requisition # 2406342 **Minimum Qualifications:** Associate degree in electronics, instrumentation, or a related field or equivalent, and four years of related experience. **Job Summary:** Provides highly skilled technical work involving electronic, electrical, mechanical, and pneumatic control of typical state-of-the-art hospital facilities systems and equipment. **Preferred Qualifications:** + Five years' experience in design, installation, and implementation of building automation control systems + Working operational knowledge of emergency power, automatic transfer switches, and main switchgear + Working knowledge of instrumentation and automation sensor calibrations + Proficient with Microsoft Office Excel, Word, and Outlook **Job Duties:** + Performs detailed inspections of operating equipment, personnel activities, and plant facilities as necessary. Works on HVAC problems in patients’ rooms research facilities and animal rooms. + Troubleshoot system problems, which could require following detailed operational and maintenance procedures and reading system blueprints. + Supervises compliance with standards of workmanship and safety. + Interfaces with maintenance staff regarding system issues and maintains appropriate documentation. + Installs, troubleshoots, and repairs controls and equipment. + Reads, draws, and interprets electrical, pneumatic, mechanical, and HVAC schematics, one-line diagrams, and control sequence of operations. + Reads, writes, and interprets programming in order to diagnose sequence problems. Diagnoses complex control problems. + Programs microprocessors for initial commissioning, tuning control loops, and calibration of analog inputs. + Must perform functions on live circuits and in operating control enclosures. + Provides expertise to Instrumentation Technicians with knowledge of Siemens, Johnson, and TAC Control Systems. + Assists in the training of other technicians. + Maintains and repairs Continuous Emissions Monitoring (CEM) equipment for stack emissions testing. Performs the duties of the Utilities Operations Technician (Operator) in an emergency or as needed. + Adheres to internal controls and reporting structure. **Equipment:** Standard office and mechanical/electrical equipment. **Working Environment/Location of Position:** Mechanical, electrical, and/or office environments. May be exposed to occupational hazards such as mechanical and electrical equipment. **Salary Range:** Actual salary commensurate with experience. **Work Schedule:** Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm and as needed on occasion **Equal Employment Opportunity** UTMB Health strives to provide equal opportunity employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state or local laws unless such distinction is required by law. As a VEVRAA Federal Contractor, UTMB Health takes affirmative action to hire and advance women, minorities, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. Compensation