Electronics Specialist

Department

ES CW-227310

Career Area

Facilities and Skilled Trades

Is this an internal only recruitment?

No

Posting Open Date

12/05/2025

Final date to receive applications

12/22/2025

Position Type

Permanent Staff (SHRA)

Position Title

Electronics Specialist - Advanced

Salary Grade Equivalent

NC10 / GN12

Working Title

Electronics Specialist

Position Number

Vacancy

P020683

Full-time/Part-time Permanent/Time-Limited

Full-Time Permanent

Hours per week

40

Work Schedule

Primarily Monday – Friday 6:30am to 3:00pm. This position is ADVERSE WEATHER, EMERGENCY EVENT and COMMUNICABLE DISEASE MANDATORY ON-SITE PRIMARY. (This means the employee in this position is expected to report to or remain at work during adverse weather and emergency events and, if deemed necessary, to work a differing schedule or shift than normally assigned). Participation in On-Call rotation.

Work Location

CHAPEL HILL, NC

Position Location

North Carolina, US

Hiring Range

$37849 - $81,000

Pay Band Information

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University employees can choose from a wide range of professional training opportunities for career growth, skill development and lifelong learning and enjoy exclusive perks for numerous retail, restaurant and performing arts discounts, savings on local child care centers and special rates on select campus events. UNC-Chapel Hill offers full-time employees a comprehensive benefits package, paid leave, and a variety of health, life and retirement plans and additional programs that support a healthy work/life balance.

Primary

Purpose of Organizational Unit

The purpose of Chilled Water Systems (CWS) is to produce and distribute chilled water for approximately 155 buildings located at the main campus and two (2) satellite campuses in a cost effective, efficient and reliable manner. Chilled water is produced in two ways. One is by an extensive chilled water generating system – the single, virtual chilled water plant, comprised of four (4) networked chiller plants that are operated as a single virtual system and the second is by stand‑alone chillers that are building specific.

Additionally, Chilled Water Systems provides electric and steam load balance for Cogeneration Systems. CWS is part of UNC Energy Services.

Position Summary

This position is responsible for an assigned area of distributed control system and instrumentation installation, commissioning, maintenance and repair. This position must commission and operate existing and new plants and bridges. The control systems and associated instruments operate large-scale chilled water plants, a sophisticated Thermal Energy Storage System and Free Cooling Heat Exchanges, future plant/facility growth and on-going upgrading of existing controls and power electronics.

The plants must operate continuously.

• Maintenance, troubleshooting, repair and calibration of existing plant and chilled water bridge controls and instrumentation, large variable frequency drives and uninterruptible power supplies at chiller plants and campus buildings.
• Installation, calibration and commissioning of new and retrofit chiller plant and chilled water bridge instrumentation and final control elements.
• Configure and operate the District Cooling Systems to include system starts after major outages, problem diagnosis and solutions, trend analysis, graphics, alarms and reports for the SCADA system.
• This is an Emergency Duty position which requires incumbent to work during periods of adverse weather or other University or Chilled Water Systems emergency.

Minimum Education and…