BAS Commissioning Manager

What sets us apart is our unique culture. We thrive on teamwork, consistently surpass customer expectations, and celebrate both personal and professional success.

If you believe Thermo Systems is the right fit for you, explore our open positions below.

Location: Hybrid | Full-time Site Presence During Commissioning

Employment Status: Full-Time | Direct Hire

Compensation: $105,000 – $160,000 Annually + Bonus

Travel: Significant travel required based on project commissioning schedules

Who We Are

Thermo Systems is a global, full-service control systems integration partner delivering premier class automation solutions across the Energy, Life Sciences, and Mission Critical markets.

Guided by The Thermo Way
, we are unified, dynamic, and committed to delivering excellence. Our culture is grounded in three core principles:

• Employee Success – investing in our people and their growth
• Customer Success – delivering reliable, high-quality solutions
• Financial Strength – operating with discipline and long-term focus

We believe strong teams, trusted partnerships, and technical excellence drive sustainable success.

The Opportunity

The Commissioning Manager is accountable for leading the technical execution and commissioning of Thermo Systems projects, ensuring all contracted Building Automation System (BAS), automation, and integrated control system scope is delivered in accordance with customer requirements. This role plays a key part in the successful delivery of Building Automation Systems (BAS), industrial automation, and integrated facility control systems by ensuring hardware, software, networking, and sequence of operations perform as designed.

Partnering closely with the Project Manager and Site Manager, this role ensures that engineered solutions are correctly implemented, tested, commissioned, and accepted by the customer.

The Commissioning Manager leads on-site commissioning activities, develops and executes testing strategy, and coordinates engineering and technical resources. This role is highly customer-facing and relationship-driven, requiring strong communication and coordination with project teams, clients, contractors, and commissioning agents. The CXM is focused on technical quality, functional performance, and system readiness.

What You’ll Do

Technical Scope Ownership & Engineering Coordination:

• Own contracted technical scope delivery, ensuring systems are implemented and commissioned to specification.
• Coordinate with controls engineering teams to validate controller programming, graphics, alarms, trends, point databases, network architecture, and sequence of operations prior to commissioning.
• Advise the Project Manager on staffing, commissioning strategy, and schedule constraints.
• Coordinate with engineering teams to resolve technical issues and ensure deliverables support testing.
• Lead field commissioning activities, directing technical resources from pre-functional checks through final acceptance.
• Oversee and execute FAT/SAT and commissioning test plans; serve as the primary on-site coordination point.
• Lead functional performance testing of Building Automation Systems (BAS), including DDC controllers, supervisory software, operator workstations, field devices, and integrated third-party systems.
• Verify control sequences, alarm functionality, trending, graphics, and system interoperability across HVAC, electrical, mechanical, and other integrated building systems.
• Drive punch list resolution and re-testing through to close-out.

Quality & Technical Assurance:

• Ensure delivered systems meet contractual quality and performance standards.
• Review and approve commissioning documentation, test reports, and turnover…