Bms Controls Engineer

Velocity Recruitment
King's Cross, WC1H 8AL, United Kingdom
Last month
Applications closed
Posted
11 Apr 2026 (Last month)

Job Title: BMS & Controls Engineer

Job Purpose

The purpose of the role is: Responsible for managing and administering the installed control system and ensuring technical matters relating to Control Systems Plant and Equipment Maintenance on site follow Health, Safety, Environmental and Legislative requirements.

Responsibilities

* Carry out planned maintenance (PPM) and reactive repair work orders to the on-site BMS.

* Ensure timely completion of all work orders.

* Monitor BMS for running and alarm conditions.

* Provide a Technical point of contact for Client and Site Technical Staff while ensuring all planned / reactive works on various systems are completed to the correct client and legislative standard.

* Monitor and assure the environmental controls within the building / specialist areas conform to the required specifications and tolerances.

* Perform system checks and diagnostics to ensure systems are running optimal.

* Ensure change control is applied to documentation, software and hardware.

* Develop methods of communicating changes to client and internal teams.

* Review alarm management protocols.

* Liaise with site and client management during any emergency operations or procedures.

* Responsible for equipment and services inspections, testing, planned maintenance, modifications and fault finding.

* Investigations, diagnosis and rectification of faults on mechanical / electrical distribution systems, plant and equipment when appointed to do so.

* Start-up, operation and shut down of service plant, equipment and systems when authorised.

* Report to and seek advice from the Engineering Leaders and the BMS and Controls manager on all matters relating to Operational, Regulatory and Statutory compliance.

* Carry out Technical and Quality Audits to ensure assets and operations are technically and statutory compliant.

* Identify and agree on system enhancements to improve resilience and performance.

* Attend operational and technical meetings when required.

* Maintain, review and report to stakeholders on analytical data from the sites Fault Detection Diagnostic system.

* Maintain the building's smart systems and IOT devices (MQTT and API integrations).

Person Specification

* Post Graduate or HND level within Engineering Discipline

* Formally trained in electrical/BMS Knowledge.

* Experience in a related role.

* Strong working knowledge of Building Management Systems, Tridium and EasyIO.

* Familiarity with standard BMS communication protocols (e.g., BACnet, Modbus etc).

* Strong understanding of building services (mechanical and electrical).

* Fundamental knowledge of IT

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