Operator, Control Systems

Position Summary

The Controls Systems Operator position is part of the Vanderbilt University Maintenance and Operations (VU) and is a key individual contributor responsible for analyzing systems alarms and failures; determine if corrective actions are needed; monitor fire alarms, security alarms, and HVAC systems in place throughout campus; provide off-hour plant operations coverage on a rotational shift basis within Vanderbilt University’s buildings. Reporting directly to the Building Systems Control Manager, the Controls Systems Operator will work as a partner and in collaboration with all departments throughout the VU camps on a daily basis.

Building Systems Control provides the Vanderbilt community with many unique services that enhance the University’s quality of work-life and better utilize the University’s resources in order to provide an effective and secure living/learning environment for our students and faculty.

About the Work Unit:

Building Systems Control provides the Vanderbilt community with many unique services that enhance the University’s quality of work life and better utilize the University’s resources in order to provide an effective and secure living/learning environment for our students and faculty.

Key Functions and Expectations

With rising electrical, coal, water/sewer and natural gas costs it is of the utmost importance to attempt to control these costs. This role will control utility utilization to the greatest possible savings without disruption of the living/learning/ environment.

Utility monitoring and energy conservation

• Thorough understanding of the capabilities of the systems and components that are in place.
• Develop control strategies that consider the interactions of all systems and components in order to achieve the desired results.
• Maintain knowledge of the capabilities of our systems and components and implement new advances being made and other improvement alternatives through ongoing training.
• Equipment or asset protection and useful life utilization.

Equipment or asset protection and useful life utilization

• Protect the University’s investment in buildings and capital equipment through continuous monitoring.
• Implement operating and shut down strategies that do not negatively impact the building and systems.

Daily log of alarms, calls, and campus maintenance activities

• Maintain accurate and detailed daily log of activities of important events to allow us to quickly identify problems, verify resolutions, and verify the proper execution of our system control strategies.