Controls Designer​/Project Manager

Overview

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Havtech is the Mid-Atlantic's largest, most experienced, and successful commercial HVAC equipment, building automation systems, service, and energy solutions provider. Havtech represents the most innovative HVAC equipment and building automation system manufacturers serving commercial and industrial markets. This depth, combined with our expertise in energy-efficient HVAC system design, green building methods, and critical environments, allows us to offer cost-effective solutions that provide a low environmental impact at the highest return on investment to our customers.

Critical Environments delivers safe and energy efficient airflow solutions through the proper application and sale of products and technologies for all indoor environments, but specializing in healthcare facilities, research facilities, laboratories, and specific manufacturing processes. These regulated environments must maintain consistent airflow controls to ensure worker safety, research integrity, regulatory compliance and environmental sustainability. This position combines focused controls design responsibilities with project management for other specialty products to ensure efficient use of time and resources.

Summary

As a Controls Designer/Project Manager, you will provide specialized technical expertise in designing and supporting lab control systems while assisting the sales team with broader support functions for critical environments products, such as those used in labs, clean rooms, and hospitals. This role blends controls design—primarily creating submittals and optimizing lab control configurations—with duties in takeoffs/estimates, generating submittals, preparing orders, and managing projects for other specialty products.

• Serve as primary controls designer for lab control products, including reviewing plans and specifications to perform take-offs, optimize, and validate equipment configurations, sizes, voltages, options, operations, and integrations.
• Create detailed preliminary and/or final submittals for lab controls including wiring diagrams and as-builts, and other critical environments products, ensuring timely production release and delivery.
• Prepare proposals, pricing breakdowns, and order documentation for lab controls and supplementary products, evaluating equipment savings, material costs, and escalation for long-term projects.
• Administer and manage projects, including coordination with multiple suppliers and customers, participating in PM meetings/calls, creating and managing purchase orders to meet requirements, and handling vendor bidding, negotiation, and submittal evaluations.
• Provide administrative and technical support to sales engineers, consulting engineers, contractors, or clients during design, fulfillment, and warranty stages for a range of critical environments systems, teaming to influence selection, design, and pricing.
• Develop and maintain relationships with manufacturers and vendors to stay current on industry trends, competitive advantages, and product innovations relevant to labs, clean rooms, hospitals, and related spaces.
• Document work by maintaining organized files for each job, including internal and external customer correspondence, to mitigate project risks.
• Responsible for profit and loss on a job-by-job basis, applying financial acumen to support budgeting, cost reviews, and overall project profitability.
• Coordinate and perform service and technical support during start-up and throughout warranty periods, resolving issues to maintain owner, engineer, or contractor satisfaction.
• Simultaneously manage a large and diverse number of projects and issues with tact, cooperation, and persistence, meeting deadlines for proposals, submittals, equipment releases, and other tasks.
• Utilize knowledge of critical environments systems, including HVAC controls, temperature controls, air handlers, VAV units, exhaust systems and other specialty products, to offer innovative solutions and ensure timely project completion.
• Communicate with subcontractors and suppliers to obtain and…