Senior HVAC & Energy Optimization Engineer

Experience Level: 5+ years of relevant hands‑on experience, ideally 7–10 years

Location:

Italy-based preferred; remote/hybrid possible for the right candidate, with regular presence in Milan and/or pilot sites

Employment Type:

Full-time / long‑term role, with an initial 18‑month project horizon

Languages:

Native or equivalent Italian required; fluent English required

Context
O Technology / OMNIREAL, a Fervo Group company owning and developing a proprietary IoT / BEMS / BACS smart building and energy optimisation platform, is looking to add a senior technical resource to support the technological and operational scale‑up of the platform, internally referred to as FEAMS.

Prior knowledge of FEAMS is not required, and it should not be assumed that the platform is already known in the market.

What is essential is a strong technical and operational background in HVAC systems, combined with the ability to translate field experience into energy analysis, control logic, diagnostics, root cause identification and scalable digital platform solutions.

Mission
The mission of the role is to internalise, structure and ope rationalise within Fervo Group the technical know‑how required to analyse the energy and functional behaviour of HVAC systems in buildings, identify the real root causes of inefficiencies, and translate those findings into platform logic, dashboards, algorithms, reports, alerts and repeatable tools.

The person will work closely with the international consultant, the Italian software development team, BMS/BACS specialists, and the Fervo Group Energy Services and Technical Services teams, with the objective of turning technical and operational HVAC know‑how into a scalable digital product, an industrialised methodology and a stable internal capability.

The role is intended to support both the domestic development of the platform and its future international expansion.

Role
This is not a purely theoretical energy engineering role. The core background must be HVAC.

The ideal candidate is a senior engineer with solid hands‑on experience in HVAC systems, commissioning, O&M, plant operation, performance evaluation and control logic, who has subsequently developed strong capabilities in energy analysis and digital energy optimisation.

The candidate must understand the actual operating philosophy of HVAC systems: how a chiller plant behaves in practice, how AHUs/FAHUs, fan coils, split units, DX systems, VRF/VRV systems, pumps, valves, sensors, set points, schedules, control sequences and BMS/BACS logic interact in real buildings.

The energy specialisation is highly relevant, but it must be built on top of previous and consolidated operational experience in HVAC systems.

Key Responsibilities

Acquire from the international consultant the methodology for analysing consumption, system performance and HVAC inefficiencies.

Convert the transferred know‑how into internal procedures, checklists, analysis models, anomaly libraries and working tools for the O Technology / OMNIREAL team.

Monitor and analyse real‑time and historical data from HVAC equipment, BMS/BACS, meters, sensors, IoT devices, CMMS and third‑party systems.

Identify the root causes of abnormal consumption, poor performance, inefficient operating patterns, thermal drift, degradation and deviations from expected baselines.

Define and support optimisation logic for chiller plants, variable flow pumping systems, AHUs/FAHUs, fan coils, DX systems, split units, VRF/VRV systems, ventilation, domestic hot water and other HVAC systems.

Support the software team by translating HVAC and energy requirements into functional specifications for graphical user interfaces, dashboards, alerts, reports and workflows.

Build and maintain an HVAC root cause library, including recurring inefficiencies, technical causes and corrective actions to be progressively systematised into the platform.

Contribute to the development of SEU Kits and Energy Conservation Measures applicable to different building types and markets.

Support Italian and international pilots during data gathering, installation, commissioning, functional verification and savings validation.

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