Controls Designer​/Project Manager

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Full Time Columbia, MD, US

30+ days ago Requisition

Havtech is the Mid-Atlantic's largest, most experienced, and successful commercial HVAC equipment, building automation systems, service, and energy solutions provider. Havtech represents the most innovative HVAC equipment and building automation system manufacturers serving commercial and industrial markets. Havtech's depth, combined with our expertise in energy-efficient HVAC system design, green building methods, and critical environments, allows us to offer cost-effective solutions that provide a low environmental impact at the highest return on investment to our customers.

Critical Environments delivers safe and energy efficient airflow solutions through the proper application and sale of products and technologies for all indoor environments, but specializing in healthcare facilities, research facilities, laboratories, and specific manufacturing processes. These regulated environments must maintain consistent airflow controls to ensure worker safety, research integrity, regulatory compliance and environmental sustainability.

Havtech is dedicated to providing every customer with an exceptional experience.

As a Controls Designer/Project Manager, you will provide specialized technical expertise in designing and supporting lab control systems while assisting the sales team with broader support functions for critical environments products, such as those used in labs, clean rooms, and hospitals. This role combines focused controls design responsibilities—primarily creating submittals and optimizing lab control configurations with additional duties in takeoffs/estimates, generating submittals, preparing orders, and managing projects for other specialty products to ensure efficient use of time and resources.

This position requires a unique combination of technical design skills, sound financial management, customer service orientation, problem-solving abilities, field experience for site support, and the drive to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment with limited resources. You will collaborate with the sales team to influence system selection, ensure accurate delivery, manage project risks, and maintain client satisfaction throughout the acquisition and fulfillment stages.

include the following. Other functions may be assigned.

• Serve as primary controls designer for lab control products, including reviewing plans and specifications to perform take-offs, optimize, and validate equipment configurations, sizes, voltages, options, operations, and integrations.
• Create detailed preliminary and/or final submittals for lab controls including wiring diagrams and as-builts, and other critical environments products, ensuring timely production release and delivery.
• Prepare proposals, pricing breakdowns, and order documentation for lab controls and supplementary products, evaluating equipment savings, material costs, and escalation for long-term projects.
• Administer and manage projects, including coordination with multiple suppliers and customers, participating in PM meetings/calls, creating and managing purchase orders to meet requirements, and handling vendor bidding, negotiation, and submittal evaluations.
• Provide administrative and technical support to sales engineers, consulting engineers, contractors, or clients during design, fulfillment, and warranty stages for a range of critical environments systems, teaming to influence selection, design, and pricing.
• Develop and maintain relationships with manufacturers and vendors to stay current on industry trends, competitive advantages, and product innovations relevant to labs, clean rooms, hospitals, and related spaces.
• Document work by maintaining organized files for each job, including internal and external customer correspondence, to mitigate project risks.
• Responsible for profit and loss on a job‑by‑job basis, applying financial acumen to support budgeting,…