Principal Controls Operations Lead
FluidStackGPU Cloud company
New York, United StatesLead
Situational Awareness
Astro Capital (NY)
7GC & Co
Armyn Capital
Autopilot Management Company
Bare Metal Ventures
Operations & Strategy
About the role
TL;DR
Lead the design, development, and execution of data center controls.
- •Serve as the most senior technical authority for BMS, EPMS, PLC, and equipment-level controls across the fleet.
- •Key Responsibilities Own every material BMS change across the fleet and serve as final technical approver for high-consequence changes.
- •Lead technical and operational site audits on sequences, alarming, trending, integration health, and cybersecurity.
- •Personally sign off on controls operational readiness and the handover from commissioning to steady-state operations for every new site.
- •Feed operational learnings back into design and manufacturing as we shift to repeatable, productized builds.
- •Author and approve high-risk MOPs, EOPs, and AOPs, and lead root cause analysis on significant controls events through to closure.
- •Requirements You've spent a career programming, commissioning, and operating controls on complex central plants and critical environments.
- •You have platform-agnostic command of modern BMS/BAS (Ignition, Niagara, Metasys, EcoStruxure) earned in the field, plus PLC programming on at least one major platform.
- •You're fluent across BACnet, Modbus, SNMP, and the other major controls protocols, and you know the mechanical, electrical, and fire/life safety systems they coordinate.
- •You've authored and executed high-risk controls MOPs in live critical environments, and led root cause analysis on significant events through to closure.
- •You hold integrators, OEMs, and vendors to a programming and documentation standard without burning the relationship.
Nice-to-have skills
PythonSQL
Domain expertise
fintech
Benefits & perks
Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity), Retirement or pension plan, Health, dental, and vision insurance, Generous PTO policy
