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About the Role:
Fermilab is looking for a Building Management Services Specialist to play a critical role in ensuring the efficient operations, maintenance, and optimization of facility systems that support vast portfolio of scientific, technical, and administrative facilities. This role will fabricate, operate, test, calibrate, repair, and modify equipment, systems and devices.

What your day-to-day as a Building Management Services Specialist at Fermilab will look like:

• Acting as a visible subject matter expert in one or more advanced and specialized technical functions.
• Applying advanced and specialized knowledge to fabricate, set-up, calibrate, operate, test, repair, and/or modify a wide variety of highly complex electrical/electronic and/or mechanical equipment, systems, and devices for building automation and controls systems projects/equipment. May coordinate and review the work of less experienced technical staff and oversee contractors.
• Assisting in the design and development of equipment and systems including providing engineering support activities to assigned projects or tasks.
• Contributing to the selection of plans, techniques, designs, layouts, cost estimates, and scheduling of technical projects.
• Writing best practices, procedures, and documentation for all finished work. Entering relevant work information into a database and/or personal logbook.
• Producing reports as assigned. Electronically prepares and compiles technical data and safety records for equipment using databases, spreadsheets, and other appropriate computing software and programs.
• Providing complex technical support and maintenance for a wide variety of instruments and equipment in the assigned area. Troubleshooting problems and repairs as needed.
• Conducting periodic safety inspections of assigned areas, including generation of hazard analyses.
• Responding to and leading operational and emergency requirements. Will be required to respond to emergency call-ins.
• Procuring and maintaining inventories of technical parts, supplies, materials, and equipment for assigned projects. Interacts with outside vendors, resolve technical problems. May conduct on-site vendor visits and expedite deliveries. Orders parts, tooling, and supplies for assigned projects.
• Assisting in the design and development of equipment and systems including providing engineering support activities to assigned projects or tasks.
• Directing, mentoring, and/or guiding the work of other technicians or contractors. As assigned, serve as the lead technician for specific group projects or tasks.
• Performing other duties as assigned by supervisor.
• Abiding by being responsible for performing all duties in accordance with all environmental, health and safety regulations and practices pertinent to this position

Skills and Attributes for Success:

• High School diploma (or technical certificate or equivalent)
• 12+ years or associate's degree and 6+ years of experience with Building Automation System Controls (BAS) or Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)
• PLC programming & troubleshooting (preferred, but not required)
• BAS controller programming & troubleshooting (preferred, but not required)
• BAS operator

Applicable Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required:

• Demonstrated and sustained experience in the assigned area.
• Possesses and applies advanced knowledge of electrical and mechanical technology concepts, practices, and procedures from extensive experience or academic study.
• Required to legally operate a government vehicle.
• Ability to become physically qualified to enter Oxygen Deficiency Hazard (ODH) locations and radiation areas
• Experience working on mechanical & electronic systems using hand and common power tools
• Proficiency in working in a Windows PC environment, using Outlook and Web based tools
• OSHA 30 certification preferred

Work Arrangement:
Please note that the described work arrangement is subject to change based on business needs and is not guaranteed to be final.

• Onsite: This is an onsite role, and the candidate must be able to work from our Batavia office.

Benefits/Perks:
Fermilab offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program, including:

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid time off
• Life insurance
• Short and Long-term disability insurance
• Retirement benefits
• Onsite day care

Why Fermilab:
Fermilab is America's premier laboratory for particle physics and accelerator research, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. We support discovery science experiments in Illinois and locations around the world, including deep underground mines in South Dakota and Canada, mountaintops in Arizona and Chile, CERN in Europe and the South Pole.

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