
Associate Consultant, Building Automation Controls Engineer
New York, NYJob$95–116K/yrSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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Job overview
The Building Automation Controls Engineer will work with senior engineers to design automation control and monitoring systems for data centers, including heat rejection systems, chilled water plants, and integration with HVAC and electrical power monitoring systems. The role develops control-product drawings, specifications, points lists, and sequences of operation, and supports projects through proposal design, construction, and administration. The position is based in the Troy, New York or Herndon, Virginia office.
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Full job description
Great people. Great places. Great projects. kW Mission Critical Engineering, a WSP company, is a high-performance, fast-paced consulting engineering firm designing data centers and mission critical environments across the globe. We hire smart, responsive, team players to work in collaborative and mentoring office settings. Our mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, controls, telecommunications, and security building system designs keep many of the world’s top Fortune 100 financial, technology, enterprise, hyperscale, and colocation companies up and running 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
We work on innovative, award-winning, large-scale projects. We travel to construction sites to see our designs being built. As part of WSP, we are able to offer our employees increased professional development and career opportunities in addition to kW MCE’s office culture which is consistently recognized as one of the “Best Places to Work.” Join our great people at our great places designing great projects.
This Opportunity
kW Mission Critical Engineering , a WSP USA company, is currently initiating a search for a Building Automation and Controls Engineer for Troy, NY or Herndon, VA office.
As a Building Automation Controls Engineer with us, you will work with senior engineers to design automation control and monitoring systems serving data centers. Applications include heat rejection systems such as industrial air handling units and chilled water plants as well as integration to intelligent HVAC and electrical power monitoring systems (EPMS). Design activities include drawing and specification development for control products, points lists and Sequence of Operations.
Your Impact
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Work in a team or independently, planning and executing engineering tasks within projects
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Demonstrate significant understanding of the range of services provided by the kW MCE engineering teams & related practices
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Independently, under general supervision, support the team during proposal design, and construction stages of projects
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Execute controls design of complex projects
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Work within multi-discipline project teams to develop drawing and specification documents for issuance to architects, contractors and building owners.
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Attend client meetings and contribute to discussions
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Collaborate and coordinate with internal project discipline team members and external equipment vendors and manufacturers
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Communicate complex control and monitoring concepts and decisions to clients and stakeholders
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Integrate complex mechanical & electrical engineering requirements into larger facility controls and monitoring designs
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Interact regularly with clients, which includes maintaining current relationships and developing new relationships
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Perform all aspects of controls designs, review systems, and drawings prior to issuance
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Survey and evaluate existing conditions
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Perform construction administration tasks
Who You Are
The ideal candidate will possess experience with HVAC or process control applications from a controls systems vendor, commissioning agent, or design consultant. Candidates should have strong communication skills, and an interest in liaising with internal and external design, client and construction team members.
Required Qualifications
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Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
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2+ years of experience in designing control systems for the high performing, commercial, industrial or mission critical/data center buildings
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Excellent verbal and written communication skills
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Experience with applicable software packages including AutoCAD, Revit
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Knowledge of building, mechanical, electrical and energy codes
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Ability to organize and present design information to project staff
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Attention to detail, highly organized, self-starter
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Ability to travel to project sites
Preferred Qualifications:
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Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical or Computer Engineering
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EIT or Registered Professional Engineer (PE), if applicable
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Mission Critical/Data Center experience highly preferred
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Experience with international projects
WSP Benefits
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation
Expected Salary (all locations): $95,000 - $116,000
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
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About WSP
WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,263 open Controls Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$95–116K/yr
- New York median$95–130K/yr73 salary ranges
- US median$111–160K/yr1,308 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $106K, is 10% below the New York median midpoint ($118K) — in the middle half of Controls Engineer salary ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 96 open Controls Engineer jobs in New York and 2,263 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- GE Vernova8 open
- Corning Incorporated7 open
- Dematic6 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Controls Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 1,922 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 1,180 of the 2,263 open Controls Engineer jobs (52%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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