BAS Technician

Advertising Summary: This position will monitor, maintain, and repair Building Automation Systems (BAS), assuring that VCU assets are operating effectively and efficiently while meeting customer requirements.

Unit: Facilities Operations Admin

Department: Facilities Ops Admin

Department Summary: VCU’s Facilities Management Department is seeking to hire a BAS Technician for Facilities Operations.

Duties & Responsibilities:

To monitor, maintain, and repair Building Automation Systems (BAS), assuring that VCU assets are operating
effectively and efficiently while meeting customer requirements. To provide BAS support to zone personnel as
needed to ensure they can complete mechanical, electrical, or plumbing services.
• Provide technical support of BAS for internal and external customers during regular and after-hours
timeframes to include weekends, holidays, and on-call service periods.
• Perform daily review and monitoring of BAS to ensure assets are operating as designed and identify
service needs and opportunities identified through the BAS.
• Alert leadership of service issues beyond your capability of repair for corrective action to include
documentation of needs.
• Complete work order requests per policy and procedure while interacting in a professional and
workmanlike manner following the VCU Code of Conduct.
• Perform maintenance and repairs to BAS to include, but not limited to, sensor calibrations, device and
program troubleshooting, installation of BAS components, review of BAS programming for operation and
system integrity, plan/system review and comments, data monitoring, collection, and interpretation to
include trends and projections for all points and alarms.
• Perform programming verifications to ensure systems are operating per design or intent across multiple
BAS platforms.

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated ability to work in and foster an environment of respect, professionalism and civility with a population of faculty, staff, and students from all backgrounds and experiences, or a commitment to do so as a staff member at VCU.
• High school diploma or GED equivalent
• Three (3) years of HVAC service, Direct Digital Controls service (DDC), or electrical trade service experience (may be combined)
• Three (3) years of documented BAS service or installation experience (may be combined)
• Demonstrated ability to read and interpret drawings, plans, schematics, and scopes of work

Preferred Qualifications

• Journeyman HVAC or Electrician in the state of Virginia
• Completion of three (3) or more controls vendor (JCI, Siemens, Tridium, ALC) development courses
• Demonstrated understanding of HVAC and energy management principles

Salary Range: $70,000 - $82,000

Benefits: All full-time university staff are eligible for VCU’s robust benefits package that includes comprehensive health benefits, paid annual and holiday leave granted up front, generous tuition benefits, retirement planning and savings options, tax-deferred annuity and cash match programs, employee discounts, well-being resources, abundant opportunities for career development and advancement, and more.

FLSA Exemption Status: Non-Exempt

Hours per Week: 40 hours: M - F 7AM - 3PM: After-hours as needed, regular on-call rotation required

Restricted Position: No

ORP Eligible: No

Flexible Work Arrangement: Fully Onsite

University Job Title: 17153N - Electrical, Instrumentation, and Control [EI&C] Technician FM3