Assistant Vice President – Lead Building Performance (Built Ecology)

This Opportunity

WSP, an award winning and innovative multi-disciplinary engineering consulting firm, is looking for a Assistant Vice President Lead Building Performance Consultant for the Built Ecology team in New York, NY.

Other locations considered include Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver, Chicago, Boston, and Washington DC. Our team works closely with organizations, owners, developers, architects, and tenants from around the world on large, complex projects with a focus on sustainability, health, resilience, user experience, and operational efficiency in the built environment.

Built Ecology is WSP’s national Built Environment Sustainability practice, providing a broad range of services including sustainability strategy and planning, target-setting and workshop facilitation, high-performance design assistance, computational building performance analysis, building certifications, energy and GHG master planning, and building performance verification.

We work across a wide range of project types and scales, from master planning and district infrastructure to building design and construction, to ongoing performance and operations.

Built Ecology has been directly responsible for driving many leading projects across the globe, including LEED Platinum buildings, Living Building Challenge and WELL projects, Net Zero energy and water projects, EcoDistricts, corporate programs, and improvements for large building portfolios.

Our solutions are typically innovative, integrated, data-driven, and practical.

Our team brings a structured approach while also identifying unique opportunities on each project. We influence strategic decisions to achieve sustainable outcomes in buildings, neighborhoods, and organizations.

Your Impact

• Direct, facilitate, and support multidisciplinary project team to establish high performance, general sustainability, and Net Zero goals, including leading and overseeing the development of various technical models beyond basic whole building energy modeling
• Work closely with MEP design teams and project managers to define a pathway to exceeding local codes and stretch codes
• Direct, facilitate, and support multidisciplinary project team to establish high performance, general sustainability, and Net Zero goals, including leading and overseeing the development of various technical models beyond basic whole building energy modeling
• Utilize energy and GHG modeling tools to complete carbon modeling and develop net zero carbon road maps
• Interpret climate information and building use typologies to inform building design strategies
• Provide LEED and other certifications strategy and advice, particularly around energy
• Develop and provide quality control reviews for Built Ecology deliverables related to energy and climate strategy, planning, analysis, and implementation
• Contribute to the development and improvement of our project delivery standards, to ensure a high quality of work is consistently delivered by the national team
• Provide quality control reviews for Built Ecology analysis and deliverables
• Strengthen WSP’s relationships with existing clients and develop new clients
• Have a leadership presence in the industry and support business development
• Integrate with all aspects of the business to weave sustainability into all our service offerings
• Manage and support staff
• Produce or oversee the production of high quality, visually compelling deliverables

Ideal candidates will exhibit the following characteristics :

• Passionate about creating a sustainable, healthy, resilient, and equitable built environment
• Expertise in high-performance MEP systems, building science, high-performance façades, and energy codes
• Expertise with analytic tools to support various aspects of high-performance design, stretch code compliance, decarbonization strategy, climate-responsive design, adavnced building systems analysis, whole building energy and daylight modeling, parametric modeling, operational carbon analysis, envelope modeling, climate assessments, renewable energy analysis, district energy simulations, embodied energy analysis, etc.
• Passionate about mentoring, and supporting individuals across WSP’s national sustainability team
• Committed to collaborating with and supporting the growth of our integrated national team
• Presents ideas and solutions that are clear, concise, comprehensive, creative, and compelling
• Uses integrative thinking and problem-solving

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor and / or master’s degree in a technical built environment sustainability or building design-related discipline
• 10+ years of experience providing sustainability and high-performance design consulting, at least 4 years of this should have been in supervisory and project management capacity and demonstrated areas of specific subject matter expertise and industry presence
• Demonstrated ability to grow and manage a portfolio of work and support the staff needed to deliver that work
• Ability to generate new work both from new and existing clients
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Expertise in using EnergyPlus and associated plugins for parametric modeling of inter-related desig parameters in complex buildings
• Ability to utilize large data sets for advanced analysis of building solutions
• Knowledge of a wide array of national and global sustainability-related rating systems, codes, and programs
• Experience with BIM, energy modeling, computational design tools, and early-phase design analysis
• Highly technical with the ability to communicate, present, and generate enthusiasm and buy in for ideas and solutions

Preferred Qualifications :

• Professional Engineer or Registered Architect
• Experience with energy modeling (IES-VE, OpenStudio, EnergyPlus), load calculations, and district systems
• Software coding capability, particularly to serve the advanced analysis of building performance
• Familiarity or expertise in smart building solutions for energy and IAQ management
• Expertise in low and Net Zero water systems, including water treatment and reuse opportunities
• Ability to lead an integrative design process and facilitate complex sustainability discussions and workshops
• Experience coordinating green building, healthy building, and building performance certifications
• Experience with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, Science-based Targets, and other climate-related reporting frameworks
• Knowledge of mechanical systems and building physics for data centers, hospitals, laboratories, advanced manufacturing, and battery energy storage systems
• Experience developing and delivering compelling public presentations
• Strong external presence in the real estate, architecture, and sustainability industry

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) : $107,000- 150,000

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.

Expected Salary (Colorado only) : $170,000-145,000

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and / or offer for this position within the state of Colorado, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and 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.

Additional Requirements

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
30+ days ago