BAS Technician

Unit: Facilities Operations Admin

Department: Facilities Ops Admin

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…