Data Center Controls Technician - Onsite Power & Cooling Expert

🚨 Hiring:
Data Center Controls Technicians - BMS / EPMS
📍 North Carolina: Hamlet + Northeast Charlotte / I-485 area
🏢 Fully Onsite | 12-Month Contract | Multiple Openings

We're supporting AWS with multiple openings for hands-on Data Center Controls Technicians across critical data center environments in Virginia and North Carolina.

This role sits right at the intersection of building automation, electrical monitoring, mechanical systems, and controls.

You'll be working directly with the systems that keep data centers powered, cooled, monitored, and operating safely.

🔹 BMS / BAS systems supporting chillers, pumps, cooling towers, CRAHs, economizers, temperature sensors, and humidity sensors
🔹 EPMS environments monitoring generators, UPS systems, switch gear, PDUs, VFDs, ATS and STS equipment
🔹 Controllers, HMIs, IPCs, sensors, relays, and field devices
🔹 Point-to-point checkout and commissioning
🔹 Loading software and configurations onto controllers and HMIs
🔹 Sensor installation, replacement, calibration, and validation
🔹 Troubleshooting controls and communication issues
🔹 BACnet, Modbus, MQTT, and related protocols
🔹 Low-voltage copper and fiber environments
🔹 Supporting commissioning, testing, contractors, ticketing, MOPs, and change management

We're interested in people coming from:

✅ BMS / BAS / building automation
✅ HVAC controls
✅ Controls commissioning
✅ Instrumentation & Controls (I&C)
✅ Electrical & Instrumentation (E&I)
✅ Critical facilities
✅ Data centers
✅ Hospitals
✅ Utilities / power generation
✅ Nuclear
✅ Water / wastewater
✅ Oil & gas
✅ Military electronics, HVAC, controls, or power systems

Experience with platforms such as Niagara, Tridium, Schneider Electric, Siemens, Honeywell, Johnson Controls, Automated Logic, Ignition, or similar systems is relevant.

You do not need previous hyperscale data center experience.

The strongest candidates understand the interaction between mechanical systems, electrical systems, controls, and basic networking and are comfortable troubleshooting equipment hands-on in a critical environment.

📍 Must be able to work fully onsite in the assigned Virginia or North Carolina market and float between nearby AWS sites when required.

If you've worked hands-on with BMS, BAS, EPMS, controls commissioning, HVAC controls, or critical-facility automation, I'd be interested in speaking with you.

GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.