Principal, Controls SME

The role

The Controls SME is a Managed Services expert embedded in a data center build. This person supports design review, vendor oversight, and commissioning to ensure control systems are operable, maintainable, and trustworthy.

What you will do

• Review controls designs including BMS/BAS, EPMS, SCADA, PLC-based plant controls, and generator, UPS, and switchgear controller integration.
• Provide QA/QC oversight of controls scope for new construction and retrofits.
• Review vendor proposals and programming and oversee system configuration.
• Witness factory tests and hold vendors to Hut 8 standards.
• Walk controls installations at key milestones during construction.
• Witness Level 3-5 commissioning of controls and automation.
• Verify controls turnover packages including as-built sequences, point lists, and drawings.
• Provide technical controls training and support to Facility Operations staff.
• Feed operational lessons into Hut 8 controls standards and basis of design.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of controls experience in programming, start-up, and commissioning of complex systems such as central plants, air handling units, and evaporative cooling and humidification systems.
• A bachelor's degree or trade certification in a related field plus 3+ years of controls industry experience can be considered in lieu of the 7+ years.
• Experience in critical environments with working knowledge of critical facility operations and procedure-based work.
• Theoretical and practical understanding of control equipment and systems: design, maintenance, troubleshooting, testing, and construction.
• Working knowledge of the mechanical, electrical, and life safety systems found in critical facilities.
• Sequence-of-operations fluency.
• Experience interpreting blueprints, CAD drawings, and controls diagrams.
• Turnover documentation rigor, especially programming backups, configuration files, and version control.
• Effective in a highly collaborative, cross-functional environment.

Nice to have

• Data center experience
• PLC programming experience
• IT or networking certification
• Equipment field service engineering or manufacturer representative experience
• Demonstrated use of AI tools to improve workflows with measurable results

About the company

Hut 8 builds infrastructure for AI and aims to be the defining physical infrastructure company of its generation.