BAS Technician Job Richmond area,Virginia USA,Trades / Skilled Labor

Unit: Facilities Operations Admin

Department: Facilities Ops Admin

Duties & Responsibilities:

VCU's Facilities Management Department is seeking to hire a BAS Technician.

The BAS Technician monitors, maintains, and repairs Building Automation Systems (BAS), assuring that VCU assets are operating effectively and efficiently while meeting customer requirements. The BAS Technician provides BAS support to zone personnel as needed to ensure they can complete mechanical, electrical, or plumbing services.

Provide technical service support of BAS for internal and external customers during regular and after-hours time frames to include weekends, holidays, and on-call service periods
Perform daily review and monitoring of BAS to ensure assets are operating as designed and identify service needs and opportunities identified through the BAS
Alert leadership of service issues beyond your capability of repair for corrective action to include documentation of needs
Complete work order requests per policy and procedure while interacting in a professional and workmanlike manner following the VCU Code of Conduct
Perform maintenance and repairs to BAS to include, but not limited to, sensor calibrations, device and program troubleshooting, installation of BAS components, review of BAS programming for operation and system integrity, plan/system review and comments, data monitoring, collection, and interpretation to include trends and projections for all points and alarms
Perform programming verifications to ensure systems are operating per design or intent across multiple BAS platforms (JCI, Siemens, Tridium, etc.)
Perform BAS programming and graphics changes as needed and to VCU standards across multiple BAS platforms (JCI, Siemens, Tridium, etc.)

Additional responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

Work Management

Utilize trades and automation skills and diagnostic tools to independently respond to assigned work requests based on priority, ensuring quality workmanship
- Provide notes log documentation of all work performed and update phase statuses utilizing established CMMS Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) to include complete, accurate, and in the field on the job entered notes for TIMECARD notes that customers have access to. Additionally, departmental use notes are to be entered appropriately as INFO ONLY notes
- When applicable, provide related documents using CMMS by uploading pictures from the job site that may prove beneficial for further troubleshooting or diagnosis
- Monitor overall BAS efficiency through daily system checks, documenting these checks through CMMS following CMMS note log requirements to include daily review of the Operations Center Log for any BAS entries
- Perform BAS component repairs, maintenance, and replacements for both reactive and preventive work orders.
- Work with zone staff to identify and correct system issues identified through BAS monitoring and review
- Perform daily monitoring and testing of lab, research, and DAR spaces, documenting service needs, corrective actions, and anomalies to meet customer expectations and reporting requirements
- Perform installations, repairs, and maintenance to include cable and wire pulls, conduit runs, and device/equipment cabinet installations
- Perform BAS programming changes as needed to include coding and sequence changes
- Create BAS graphics in alignment with VCU standards
- Review BAS, HVAC, and other plans, drawings, submittals for new and renovation construction projects providing input and direction as a subject matter expert
- Collaborate with departmental technicians, staff engineers, and vendors to identify operational improvement and corrective action opportunities through BAS
- Upwardly communicate all critical system failures through completion to appropriate personnel while including documentation within CMMS
Timecards
- Complete daily time card entry per established CMMS Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) to include complete, accurate, and field-entered notes
Complete scheduled preventive maintenance within the month of the date issued
Provide backlog notes documentation for all work requests over 30 days with an emphasis on completion
Identify and document system deficiencies as observed, and advise management of tasks requiring priority attention
Perform all work in a safe and workmanlike fashion, complying with all University and Departmental safety policies and guidelines
Maintain shop and departmental common and storage spaces to ensure that they are orderly and neat, with items stored properly and safely

Customer Service

Communicate respectfully to internal and external customers, treating all work or service requestors as customers
Communicate with the customer for every work order request at the time of service completion or delay to provide an update on services rendered and the status of the request. Document the means of
notification to include the name, date, and time of who was notified, within the notes portion of the work order
Work as a member of the team, striving for…