Controls Manager

Company Overview

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (STACK) provides digital infrastructure to scale the world’s most innovative companies. We are an award‑winning industry leader in building, owning, and operating highly efficient, cost‑effective wholesale, colocation, and cloud data centers. Each of our national facilities meets or exceeds the highest industry standards in all operational categories of availability, security, connectivity, and physical resilience.

STACK is seeking a Controls Manager to join our Technical Operations team and lead the Controls Engineering function at our new data center facilities in New Mexico. This position will oversee a team of Controls Engineers responsible for the construction support, commissioning, operation, troubleshooting, maintenance, and continuous improvement of BMS, EPMS, PLC, SCADA, and OT data systems across a large, mission‑critical campus.

The Controls Manager will serve as the site technical leader for controls and monitoring systems, ensuring reliable, scalable, and secure performance across mechanical, electrical, and plant control infrastructure. This role will work closely with site operations, engineering, construction, commissioning teams, vendors, IT, cybersecurity, network teams, and internal stakeholders to ensure controls systems are delivered, operated, and maintained to STACK standards.

This position requires both strong technical depth and people leadership. The Controls Manager will establish priorities for the Controls Engineering team, drive standards and best practices, mentor engineers, support critical issue resolution, and ensure the site has the controls expertise needed to operate safely and reliably at scale.

• Lead, manage, and develop a team of Controls Engineers supporting building automation, industrial controls, SCADA, PLCs, EPMS, and OT data systems.
• Establish priorities, workload management, escalation paths, and technical expectations for the Controls Engineering team.
• Serve as the site subject matter expert and technical owner for controls and monitoring systems across mechanical, electrical, and campus-level infrastructure.
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of site mechanical, electrical, controls, and monitoring architectures, including chilled water plant controls, plant operation, electrical distribution monitoring, and campus-level system integration.
• Oversee implementation, commissioning, operation, troubleshooting, and optimization of PLC-based controls systems across mission‑critical mechanical and electrical infrastructure.
• Provide leadership for Ignition front-end systems, including screens, tags, alarms, historian functions, user interfaces, integrations, reporting, standards, and long‑term maintainability.
• Oversee MQTT-based data movement, edge messaging, enterprise messaging infrastructure, and related controls system integrations.
• Support database-backed controls, monitoring, alarming, reporting, analytics, and operational data workflows.
• Lead controls-related troubleshooting, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and lessons learned for building automation, PLC, SCADA, EPMS, power monitoring, and OT integration issues.
• Ensure integration and validation of power quality meters, including devices configured for continuous waveform monitoring, event capture, power quality analysis, and electrical system diagnostics.
• Partner with commissioning agents, contractors, vendors, and internal engineering teams to verify system performance, sequence execution, alarm behavior, trend collection, data integrity, and turnover documentation.
• Oversee site operations support related to control logic, plant staging, pumping sequences, valve control, temperature control, differential pressure strategies, and system performance.
• Drive operational readiness, site acceptance testing, integrated systems testing, and turnover of controls and monitoring systems from construction to operations.
• Ensure proper metering, trending, and data collection to support operational reporting, energy efficiency, reliability tracking, long‑term optimization, and fleet-level reporting requirements.
• Partner with IT, cybersecurity,…