Controls Project Manager
Overview
Responsibilities
- Manage large building automation and HVAC controls projects from kickoff through completion
- Develop project schedules, resource plans, budgets, and delivery milestones
- Coordinate controls engineering, programming, panel production, installation, startup, and commissioning
- Manage subcontractors, field technicians, controls specialists, and project engineers
- Act as the primary point of contact for customers, general contractors, mechanical contractors, and consulting engineers
- Review project specifications, controls drawings, submittals, sequences of operation, and contract scope
- Track project costs, labor, equipment, change orders, billing, and overall financial performance
- Identify scope gaps, technical risks, schedule delays, and potential cost impacts
- Manage project documentation, RFIs, submittals, change orders, progress reports, and closeout packages
- Coordinate BAS integration with HVAC equipment and third-party systems
- Support functional testing, commissioning, customer demonstrations, and final handover
- Ensure work is completed safely, accurately, and in line with customer requirements
- Maintain strong relationships with pharmaceutical customers and project partners
Qualifications
Required
- 5+ years of experience in building automation, DDC, HVAC controls, or a related controls environment
- 3+ years of experience managing building automation or HVAC controls projects
- Experience delivering large or technically complex BAS projects
- Strong understanding of HVAC systems, sequences of operation, controls engineering, programming, installation, and commissioning
- Experience managing project budgets, schedules, labor, materials, subcontractors, and change orders
- Ability to review controls drawings, specifications, submittals, and project documentation
- Strong communication and customer-facing skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities across Greater Boston
- Valid driver's license and willingness to travel to local project sites
Preferred
- Experience managing BAS projects in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, laboratory, or validated environments
- Experience with JCI Metasys or Facility Explorer
- Familiarity with Tridium Niagara, Schneider Electric, Siemens, Honeywell, Automated Logic, Distech, or similar BAS platforms
- Knowledge of BACnet, Modbus, and third-party system integration
- Experience working with general contractors, mechanical contractors, commissioning agents, and consulting engineers
- Familiarity with regulated environments, critical HVAC systems, environmental monitoring, and validated spaces
- Relevant project management, controls, electrical, or mechanical qualifications
What We Offer
- Long-term career growth with an established controls contractor
- Exposure to large, technically complex pharmaceutical BAS projects
- The opportunity to manage projects for established customers across Greater Boston
- Support from experienced engineering, programming, and field teams
- Continued technical and project management development
- Leadership opportunities within a growing project delivery team
- A locally focused territory with project travel primarily across Greater Boston
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