Controls SME

ABOUT THE ROLE
The Controls SME is Managed Services' controls and automation expert, embedded in a data center build. The role supports design review, vendor oversight, and commissioning to make sure the control systems are operable, maintainable, and trustworthy at turnover. Controls are the facility's nervous system: when they fail or mislead, operators lose sight of everything else.

Some of the key responsibilities you should expect are the following:

Operability Design Review
Review controls designs, including BMS/BAS, EPMS, SCADA, PLC-based plant controls, CDU and cooling plant controls, and generator, UPS, and switchgear controller integration, through an operations lens. Sequences of operations, failure-mode and fail-safe behavior, loss-of-network and loss-of-controller response, manual and local override, point lists and instrumentation adequacy, alarm philosophy and prioritization, graphics clarity, and OT network architecture and access control. Push back where the design assumes an operator will understand or recover something the system never tells them.

Controls QA/QC and Vendor Oversight
Provide QA/QC oversight of controls scope for new construction and retrofits: review vendor proposals and programming, directly oversee system configuration and component upgrades, and witness factory tests. Hold controls vendors to Hut 8 standards and to the approved sequences, and make sure every modification to a system follows change control.

Construction-Phase Verification
Walk controls installations at key milestones. Flag operability and quality issues to the MEP superintendent early, while they are still cheap to fix.

Commissioning
Witness Level 3-5 commissioning of controls and automation: point-to-point verification, sequence- of-operations testing, controller, server, and network failover, alarm verification, trend validation, and integrated systems testing across mechanical, electrical, and controls, including loss-of- communication and loss-of-BMS scenarios. Review programming through the commissioning process, drive operational findings into the Cx log with clear acceptance criteria, and verify closure personally.

Turnover Readiness
Verify controls turnover packages: as-built sequences of operation, point lists, control and network drawings, programming backups and configuration files under version control, licenses and credentials transferred to Hut 8, alarm setpoint and priority matrices, trend baselines, spare controllers and critical modules, and PM program inputs such as backup routines, firmware updates, and panel power health. Confirm the backups actually restore.