Automation Project Manager Jobs in Virginia

Altura's Mission

Altura, LLC is a professional services firm focused on improving energy, environmental, and financial performance across all levels of our clients’ organizations. Altura has deep expertise in deriving value from building control systems, scaling from individual buildings to real estate portfolios. We leverage core skills in control system design and programming, engineering, project implementation, data analytics, commissioning, and financial analysis to identify and implement control project optimization at scale in order to achieve meaningful results for our clients.

Altura is actively seeking a Senior Building Automation Project Manager to support our Master Systems Integration (MSI) practice in order to help us grow and scale our impact. We are seeking someone who is excited to help us continue to pioneer best in class approaches to secure, scaled and centralized building automation system architectures that unlock the industry from proprietary and vertically managed hardware solutions.

We believe that achieving the potential of Smart Buildings requires deep expertise in the realities of the field combined with strategic vision and ambition to get the job done. Working at Altura will offer the stability of a professional services firm working strategically at the enterprise level with the excitement of delivering real solutions in the field without being tied to a single project for months dealing with basic construction issues that often dominate systems integration projects.

Scope & Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of clients and projects, including client relationships, team leadership, technical oversight and schedule & budget management.
• Lead MSI strategy and implementation projects, leveraging an in-house team of MSI implementation specialists and analytics tools to deliver superior client outcomes and building performance.
• Maintain and grow a presence for Altura in the Mid-Atlantic through active engagement with clients, in local industry associations, speaking engagements, and through thought leadership.
• Lead business development efforts to grow Altura’s client base and expand services with existing clients. Client outreach, business development, and proposals are expected to average 10% of your time.

• Manage the design, implementation, and optimization of scalable Niagara programming and graphics supervisors to deliver centralized project optimization and analytics integration across existing and new building control systems. Execute project work and manage internal teams to deliver:

• Niagara migration projects: Project management, design strategy, vendor and client coordination, deep IT coordination, scheduling, proactive client communications, QAQC, training

• New Construction MSI Projects: Project management, design reviews, controls procurement support, vendor and client coordination, deep IT coordination, scheduling, proactive client communications, QAQC, training
• Enterprise Systems Administration: Project management, client coordination, stakeholder engagement, guidelines and specifications development, strategic network management oversight, systems and application strategy, training
• Travel within the U.S. engage with clients and manage projects as needed. Travel is expected to average 10-20% over the course of a year, and is expected to be largely confined to the East Coast.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of direct experience in the building automation system industry, including engineering, programming, graphics, and project management.
• Solid understanding of information technology (IT) as it relates to building automation including experience collaborating and communicating with IT personnel, experience and know-how prescribing reliable, secure communication pathways and network subnetting configurations, familiarity and comprehension of common IT tools such as routers, switches, firewalls, and media converters, understanding of the different tools and techniques for managing BAS data across different layers of network architecture, and deep experience troubleshooting BAS communication and networking issues.
• 5+ years of experience as a project and client manager, including proposal development, budget and schedule management, and conflict resolution.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and proven track record of building collaboration within teams to solve complex problems.
• Proven track record of developing client relationships and selling new work, including significant experience with proposal strategy, pricing, and authoring.
• Ambitious, positive, self-starting, problem-solving.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience procuring, implementing and managing scaled deployments of Niagara networks, including licensing and version control, compatibility requirements, vulnerability patching, resource monitoring and troubleshooting, architecture additions and expansion best practices.
• Direct experience and skills using Tridium Niagara 4, including Niagara 4 certification, integration of a wide variety of 3rd party devices including proprietary and non-proprietary protocols, complex wire sheet programming skills, comprehensive understanding and skills managing Niagara databases, including platform management and services, station configuration and management, and efficient station to station importing of schedules, histories, alarms, and point data, and graphics and visualization.
• Design and implementation of end to end building automation hardware and software solutions, including controller selection and layout, sensor selection and layout, network architecture layout, detailed articulation of sequences of operations, BAS scope of work documentation.

Key Attributes of Successful Candidate

We anticipate a candidate will be successful in this role if they have strengths in Altura’s Core Tenets:

• Tenacity: Drive resolution of technical, schedule and coordination challenges without significant support to deliver impact.
• Personal Responsibility: Natural tendency to take ownership of tasks, projects and teams and find intrinsic pride in their success, and will work to fix their failures.
• Collaborative Mindset: Ability to facilitate teamwork-based solutions with field, design, and owner stakeholders; proactive, clear and transparent communication.
• Innovation Always: Ability to see how systems and processes are resulting in issues and draw inspiration from all sources to find unique and tangible solutions to improve how we do our work and drive meaningful impact.

Location:

Greater DC Metro Area (remote)

About Altura:

Altura is proud to offer a generous total compensation package that includes base salary, bonus potential, and a comprehensive benefit package that includes health benefits (medical and dental plans), paid time off (vacation, sick and holiday), financial benefits (retirement plan with both match and annual company contribution, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, and commuter benefits).

Additional benefits for regular full-time employees include fitness reimbursement, healthcare and dependent care pre-tax spending plans, tuition reimbursement, back-up daycare and family support benefits, EAP, work life assistance and a holiday contribution program. Base salaries will be determined by factors such as geographic location, education, skills, experience, and market considerations. For this role the annual base salary range is $150,000-$170,000 plus a performance bonus.

We pride ourselves on our company’s unique entrepreneurial, high-energy culture and flat organizational structure which empowers employees to take action and achieve results for our clients.