Senior Level Building Automation Technician Jobs
Senior level building automation technician jobs put experienced professionals in charge of complex system design, project ownership, and the technical direction of automation programs across commercial and industrial facilities. Openings concentrate in Consulting & Professional Services, with 0% of roles offering remote or hybrid arrangements and employers like Cenergistic, ENFRA, and Moxtek hiring at this level now.
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This is a field-based service technician role focused on onsite BAS troubleshooting, repair, and maintenance. Ecosave designs, delivers, and supports energy and smart-building solutions that improve comfort, reliability, efficiency, and operating cost. Our Service team works alongside a 24/7 National Operations Center (NOC) to support commercial, healthcare, education, senior living, and industrial customers across a growing national portfolio. This senior individual-contributor role is trusted with Ecosave's most complex BAS events, customer escalations, technical review, and field coaching. You will lead diagnosis across controls, HVAC equipment, networks, servers, and integrations; protect live systems through disciplined change control; and raise Service and NOC capability. Senior status reflects technical authority and judgment, not automatic people-management authority.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
Technical Service Delivery
- Lead complex, high-impact, recurring, or multi-system BAS events remotely and onsite; establish the diagnostic strategy, coordinate contributors, and maintain customer ownership through resolution
- Diagnose advanced interactions among BAS controllers, networks, servers, databases, workstations, HVAC equipment, electrical interfaces, and third-party systems
- Review sequences, program logic, graphics, databases, alarms, trends, network architecture, and live operating data; implement authorized changes with backups, testing, rollback planning, and post-change verification
- Produce defensible root-cause analyses and corrective plans for repeat failures, unstable sequences, communication problems, nuisance alarms, and reliability risks
- Lead controls health reviews, advanced preventive maintenance, calibration strategy, database and backup reviews, limited commissioning, and service-turnover validation
Customer Ownership, Documentation & Administration
- Serve as a technical escalation point for the NOC and field team, including after-hours and mission-sensitive conditions.
- Coach Level I and II technicians through paired troubleshooting, field demonstrations, ticket review, and knowledge transfer without replacing their ownership.
- Act as the senior technical contact during customer escalations; translate complex findings into clear risk, operational impact, options, and next steps.
- Complete service records, time entries, and expense reports on time; provide field-verified scope, labor, materials, risk, and exclusions for repairs, retrofits, and small projects.
- Improve troubleshooting guides, approved methods, checklists, documentation examples, and lessons learned; coordinate with engineering, contractors, IT, vendors, projects, and customer stakeholders.
Safety, Security & Stewardship
- Protect credentials, data, backups, tools, test equipment, parts, and the assigned vehicle; escalate cyber risk, stop unsafe work, and support rotating on-call escalation coverage.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Six or more years of progressive hands-on experience servicing, programming, commissioning, or troubleshooting commercial HVAC controls and building automation systems, or equivalent demonstrated mastery through manufacturer training and complex field experience.
- At least three years independently owning BAS service calls, including control-program changes, network troubleshooting, customer communication, and verified closeout.
- Advanced knowledge of commercial HVAC systems, DDC control theory, electrical fundamentals, field devices, sequences of operation, and controls-to-equipment interaction.
- Advanced ability to use trends, alarms, live data, program logic, field measurements, drawings, and operational history to isolate root cause across multiple systems.
- Proficiency on at least one major commercial BAS platform and the ability to diagnose unfamiliar platforms methodically.
- Strong practical knowledge of BACnet/IP, BACnet MS/TP, Ethernet and IP networking, third-party integration, server connectivity, and customer IT/cybersecurity boundaries.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical incidents, communicate with demanding customers, coach technicians, and produce clear written findings and scopes.
- Valid driver's license and ability to meet company vehicle-insurability requirements.
- Ability to participate in rotating on-call escalation coverage and work occasional evenings, weekends, overtime, or overnight travel when customer conditions require it.
- Ability to satisfy customer-site screening, badging, safety, and access requirements.
Preferred
- Advanced Automated Logic WebCTRL capability, including controller programming, EIKON logic, graphics, alarming, trending, databases, commissioning tools, and ARCNET or BACnet field-bus troubleshooting.
- Niagara N4 certification or advanced experience with Carrier, Johnson Controls, Siemens, Schneider Electric, Trane, Delta Controls, or other commercial BAS platforms.
- Experience leading complex BACnet, Modbus, network, server, database, cloud-hosting, or third-party integration troubleshooting.
- Technical certificate, associate degree, or bachelor's degree in HVAC, controls, electronics, electrical engineering technology, networking, or a related discipline.
- Relevant manufacturer certifications, OSHA 30, NFPA 70E training, or recognized controls, networking, and safety credentials.
- Experience supporting healthcare, laboratories, education, senior living, industrial, data-center, or other occupied and mission-sensitive environments.
- Experience scoping service repairs and retrofits, reviewing technical work, delivering customer training, or leading system-to-service turnover.
PERFORMANCE & DEVELOPMENT
What Success Looks Like
- Resolves or materially advances the Service team's hardest technical incidents with controlled risk and clear customer ownership.
- Reduces recurring issues through root-cause correction, durable standards, and useful lessons learned.
- Raises technician and NOC capability through coaching that creates independence rather than dependency.
- Produces technically accurate scopes, reviews, documentation, and customer explanations that leadership can rely on.
- Models prepared execution, durable technical work, complete documentation, and disciplined closeout during normal work and escalations.
Career Path
Level III is a senior individual-contributor destination, not a temporary stop on the way to management. The role does not inherently carry direct reports, hiring authority, performance-management duties, or departmental ownership. A future Lead, Supervisor, or Manager role should be separately defined and selected for leadership capability, business accountability, and organizational need.
WORKING AT ECOSAVE
Why Join
- Work across service, optimization, energy performance, and smart-building technology rather than one narrow product lane.
- Operate with practical support from Service leadership, coordination, engineering, experienced technicians, and the 24/7 NOC.
- Build deeper platform expertise through role-based manufacturer training, certification, and hands-on development.
- Help shape a growing national Service organization while building a long-term technical career path.
ROLE OVERVIEW
This is a field-based service technician role focused on onsite BAS troubleshooting, repair, and maintenance. Ecosave designs, delivers, and supports energy and smart-building solutions that improve comfort, reliability, efficiency, and operating cost. Our Service team works alongside a 24/7 National Operations Center (NOC) to support commercial, healthcare, education, senior living, and industrial customers across a growing national portfolio. This senior individual-contributor role is trusted with Ecosave's most complex BAS events, customer escalations, technical review, and field coaching. You will lead diagnosis across controls, HVAC equipment, networks, servers, and integrations; protect live systems through disciplined change control; and raise Service and NOC capability. Senior status reflects technical authority and judgment, not automatic people-management authority.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
Technical Service Delivery
- Lead complex, high-impact, recurring, or multi-system BAS events remotely and onsite; establish the diagnostic strategy, coordinate contributors, and maintain customer ownership through resolution
- Diagnose advanced interactions among BAS controllers, networks, servers, databases, workstations, HVAC equipment, electrical interfaces, and third-party systems
- Review sequences, program logic, graphics, databases, alarms, trends, network architecture, and live operating data; implement authorized changes with backups, testing, rollback planning, and post-change verification
- Produce defensible root-cause analyses and corrective plans for repeat failures, unstable sequences, communication problems, nuisance alarms, and reliability risks
- Lead controls health reviews, advanced preventive maintenance, calibration strategy, database and backup reviews, limited commissioning, and service-turnover validation
Customer Ownership, Documentation & Administration
- Serve as a technical escalation point for the NOC and field team, including after-hours and mission-sensitive conditions.
- Coach Level I and II technicians through paired troubleshooting, field demonstrations, ticket review, and knowledge transfer without replacing their ownership.
- Act as the senior technical contact during customer escalations; translate complex findings into clear risk, operational impact, options, and next steps.
- Complete service records, time entries, and expense reports on time; provide field-verified scope, labor, materials, risk, and exclusions for repairs, retrofits, and small projects.
- Improve troubleshooting guides, approved methods, checklists, documentation examples, and lessons learned; coordinate with engineering, contractors, IT, vendors, projects, and customer stakeholders.
Safety, Security & Stewardship
- Protect credentials, data, backups, tools, test equipment, parts, and the assigned vehicle; escalate cyber risk, stop unsafe work, and support rotating on-call escalation coverage.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Six or more years of progressive hands-on experience servicing, programming, commissioning, or troubleshooting commercial HVAC controls and building automation systems, or equivalent demonstrated mastery through manufacturer training and complex field experience.
- At least three years independently owning BAS service calls, including control-program changes, network troubleshooting, customer communication, and verified closeout.
- Advanced knowledge of commercial HVAC systems, DDC control theory, electrical fundamentals, field devices, sequences of operation, and controls-to-equipment interaction.
- Advanced ability to use trends, alarms, live data, program logic, field measurements, drawings, and operational history to isolate root cause across multiple systems.
- Proficiency on at least one major commercial BAS platform and the ability to diagnose unfamiliar platforms methodically.
- Strong practical knowledge of BACnet/IP, BACnet MS/TP, Ethernet and IP networking, third-party integration, server connectivity, and customer IT/cybersecurity boundaries.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical incidents, communicate with demanding customers, coach technicians, and produce clear written findings and scopes.
- Valid driver's license and ability to meet company vehicle-insurability requirements.
- Ability to participate in rotating on-call escalation coverage and work occasional evenings, weekends, overtime, or overnight travel when customer conditions require it.
- Ability to satisfy customer-site screening, badging, safety, and access requirements.
Preferred
- Advanced Automated Logic WebCTRL capability, including controller programming, EIKON logic, graphics, alarming, trending, databases, commissioning tools, and ARCNET or BACnet field-bus troubleshooting.
- Niagara N4 certification or advanced experience with Carrier, Johnson Controls, Siemens, Schneider Electric, Trane, Delta Controls, or other commercial BAS platforms.
- Experience leading complex BACnet, Modbus, network, server, database, cloud-hosting, or third-party integration troubleshooting.
- Technical certificate, associate degree, or bachelor's degree in HVAC, controls, electronics, electrical engineering technology, networking, or a related discipline.
- Relevant manufacturer certifications, OSHA 30, NFPA 70E training, or recognized controls, networking, and safety credentials.
- Experience supporting healthcare, laboratories, education, senior living, industrial, data-center, or other occupied and mission-sensitive environments.
- Experience scoping service repairs and retrofits, reviewing technical work, delivering customer training, or leading system-to-service turnover.
PERFORMANCE & DEVELOPMENT
What Success Looks Like
- Resolves or materially advances the Service team's hardest technical incidents with controlled risk and clear customer ownership.
- Reduces recurring issues through root-cause correction, durable standards, and useful lessons learned.
- Raises technician and NOC capability through coaching that creates independence rather than dependency.
- Produces technically accurate scopes, reviews, documentation, and customer explanations that leadership can rely on.
- Models prepared execution, durable technical work, complete documentation, and disciplined closeout during normal work and escalations.
Career Path
Level III is a senior individual-contributor destination, not a temporary stop on the way to management. The role does not inherently carry direct reports, hiring authority, performance-management duties, or departmental ownership. A future Lead, Supervisor, or Manager role should be separately defined and selected for leadership capability, business accountability, and organizational need.
WORKING AT ECOSAVE
Why Join
- Work across service, optimization, energy performance, and smart-building technology rather than one narrow product lane.
- Operate with practical support from Service leadership, coordination, engineering, experienced technicians, and the 24/7 NOC.
- Build deeper platform expertise through role-based manufacturer training, certification, and hands-on development.
- Help shape a growing national Service organization while building a long-term technical career path.
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Senior Level Building Automation Technician Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a senior level building automation technician job?
Employers at this level look for demonstrated ownership of full project lifecycles, from system design through commissioning and handoff. Candidates who stand out combine deep proficiency with major platforms like Niagara, Johnson Controls, or Siemens with a history of leading field teams or mentoring junior technicians. Certifications such as a Niagara N4 certification or a Certified Automation Professional credential reinforce technical credibility and are increasingly expected at this stage.
Which companies hire senior level building automation technicians?
Companies hiring senior level building automation technicians right now include Cenergistic, ENFRA, and Moxtek, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Hiring at this level comes from a mix of building controls contractors, large facility management firms, and energy services companies that need experienced professionals to lead complex installations and long-term service accounts.
Are there remote senior level building automation technician jobs?
Yes, though most roles still require significant on-site presence for commissioning, troubleshooting, and client coordination. About 0% of senior level building automation technician openings are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, and those arrangements typically cover project management, programming, and system design work rather than hands-on field tasks.
What makes a building automation technician role senior level?
Senior level roles are distinguished by scope and accountability rather than task execution alone. A senior technician owns the technical outcome of a project, makes independent decisions on system architecture, and is responsible for quality across the work of less experienced team members. These roles routinely involve client-facing communication, mentoring junior staff, and contributing to proposals or scope development alongside project managers.
Which industries hire the most senior level building automation technicians?
Senior Level building automation technician roles concentrate in Consulting & Professional Services, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Those sectors drive demand because they operate large, complex building portfolios where experienced technicians are needed to manage energy performance, system integration, and ongoing compliance with increasingly sophisticated building codes and sustainability requirements.