Building Management Systems Technician

Job Opportunity at Banner Health

Primary City/State: Mesa, Arizona

Department Name: Facilities Operations-Corp

Work Shift: Day

Job Category: Facilities, Environmental Services, and Culinary

Explore and excel. At Banner, health care is a team effort. One might be surprised by the number of people who work behind the scenes and play a critical role in ensuring the best care for our patients. Apply today!

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Join our Facilities Services team and take the lead in optimizing building performance across our organization! In this role, you'll install, troubleshoot, calibrate, and maintain HVAC and building automation systems, ensuring peak efficiency and reliability. Working from our Remote Operations Center (ROC), you'll support plant operations both remotely and in the field; fine-tuning controls, updating automation programs, resolving system issues, and driving energy-saving strategies.

Schedule: Monday through Friday working 7AM to 3:30PM with a mandatory on-call rotation approximately every 5-6 weeks. Occasional evening or weekend work may be required to support patient care needs. Experience programming within the building automation industry is preferred.

Your pay and benefits are important components of your journey at Banner Health. This opportunity includes the option to participate in a variety of health, financial, and security benefits.

Within Banner Health Corporate, you will have the opportunity to apply your unique experience and expertise in support of a nationally-recognized healthcare leader. We offer stimulating and rewarding careers in a wide array of disciplines. Whether your background is in Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Managed Care Programs or Public Relations, you'll find many options for contributing to our award-winning patient care.

Position Summary

This position repairs, adjusts, calibrates, and optimizes the building control systems. This position works out of the Facilities Services Remote Operations Center (ROC) to support facility-based plant personnel to maintain optimum performance of plant equipment. This work may include field service and/or remote servicing of the Building Management Systems (BMS) across the organization.

Core Functions

• Trade level position that installs, adjusts, repairs, and troubleshoots controls of large heating ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, utility plant systems, lighting systems, and general building control systems. Controls, calibrates, and troubleshoots pressures, flows, temperatures, and speed of chillers, pumps, air handlers, terminal units, heat exchangers, etc.
• Operates, maintains, repairs, and updates the building automation computers. Creates and adjusts computer programs, graphics, and parameters in alignment with the ROC energy strategy and recommendations from data analysts and ROC leadership.
• Isolates and corrects building control system failures to restore normal operations. Maintains copies and backups of control sequences and computer images.
• Measures, calculates, and adjust supply air flow, exhaust air flows, and water flows for optimum operation to ensure compliance with all appropriate regulations and improve energy efficiency.
• Provides support to facility-based plant personnel to trouble-shoot control problems. Instructs plant personnel on operations strategies to enhance energy savings.
• Works with energy analysts to develop control strategies in effort of repairing, adjusting, and optimizing the operation of controlled equipment.
• Position generally carries departmental or hospital responsibility within assigned discipline area. External customers may include, but are not limited to, regulatory/accrediting agencies, external data providers, utility companies, etc. Internal customers include facilities services staff, managers, executives, and medical staff.
• Position may require variable shifts and hours, weekly on-call (nights/weekends) rotation.
• Provides support and expertise to Banner Development and Construction teams with focus on standards, project feedback, and coordination/completion of project scope.

Minimum Qualifications

Knowledge, skills and abilities as normally obtained through the completion of an Associate's Degree and 2 years' experience of programming within the building automation industry or equivalent combination of education, technical, business and healthcare experience in a related field.

Must have advanced skills in troubleshooting, installing, repairing, and servicing industrial building automation systems. Requires intermediate to advanced skills using word processing, spreadsheet, database and other standard business applications.

Requires communication and presentation skills to engage technical and non-technical audiences. Requires ability to communicate and interact across facilities and at various levels. As is typical in this industry, variable shifts and hours and carrying/responding to a company phone may be required.

Ability to read low voltage electrical wiring diagrams and controls flow diagrams, must be proficient with test instruments and calibration tools, have the ability to understand control wiring diagrams, and understand the operation of HVAC equipment. This includes the ability to understand written sequences of operation.

Preferred Qualifications

LonWorks and/or BACnet protocol fundamentals and Niagara AX and/or Niagara 4 experience or Possess a Niagara AX and/or Niagara 4 certification preferred. Additional education and/or experience with electrical/mechanical systems is strongly preferred.

Additional related education and/or experience preferred.

EEO Statement:

Our organization supports a drug-free work environment.

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Banner Health complies with applicable federal and state laws and does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, or disability.