Intermediate Energy Efficiency Engineer – Buildings

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 69,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

CIMA+ is seeking an Intermediate Energy Efficiency Engineer to join our Ottawa Buildings team. You will lead energy audits, performance assessments, and ECM development for institutional, commercial, municipal, and federal clients, delivering practical energy savings.

You will collaborate with mechanical, electrical, and sustainability specialists to optimize building systems, support commissioning and decarbonization initiatives, and help clients meet ESG targets across Canada.

Responsibilities

• Lead and perform energy audits and building performance assessments, including ASHRAE Level 1 and Level 2 energy audits and detailed investigations of building systems.
• Conduct site investigations and assess existing HVAC, hydronic, plumbing, electrical, lighting, controls/BAS, and other energy-consuming systems.
• Analyze utility bills, interval data, submetering data, BAS trends, equipment operating data, and building operating schedules to identify energy-saving and operational improvement opportunities.
• Identify, develop, and evaluate energy conservation measures (ECMs) related to HVAC optimization, controls, heat recovery, electrification, heat pumps, lighting, envelope improvements, equipment replacement, and operational improvements.
• Perform engineering calculations to quantify energy, demand, operating cost, and greenhouse gas savings associated with proposed measures.
• Support energy management programs, including energy performance tracking, benchmarking, energy action plans, ongoing monitoring, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead and support commissioning, recommissioning, and retro-commissioning activities, including functional performance testing, BAS and control sequence reviews, trend analysis, deficiency identification, and verification of corrective actions.
• Review building automation system sequences and operating strategies and develop recommendations to improve equipment scheduling, setpoints, reset strategies, ventilation, temperature control, and overall system performance.
• Support measurement and verification (M&V) activities to confirm the performance and savings of implemented energy efficiency measures.
• Develop building dec

Job description

Intermediate Energy Efficiency Engineer – Buildings

• Full-time
• Sector Name: Buildings
• Employee Type: Regular
• Compensation: CAD 68,960 - CAD 94,820 - yearly

Welcome to a place where people are at the heart of everything we do.

Welcome to people with an inspiring vision and who seek stimulating challenges. At CIMA+, you’ll find a place where you’ll have many opportunities to learn and develop while working on engaging projects.

We are a firm 100% owned by its employees and we value a collaborative and entrepreneurial mindset. You will have the flexibility to manage your work on your own terms and define what work-life balance means to you.

When you join CIMA+, we welcome you to a place that you can call home.

CIMA+'s Buildings team is renowned for its expertise in designing high-quality buildings. We are committed to providing the most cost-effective solutions to engineering challenges and offer a diverse range of projects from the initial planning stages to design and construction. CIMA+ cultivates career growth and provides opportunities as unique as you are. With a constant desire to offer our clients the best possible service, we have set up a team of specialists dedicated to high-performance projects to support our clients and design teams across Canada.

We are looking for aSenior Energy Efficiency Engineer to join our Buildings team in Ottawa. The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering energy audits, energy management, building optimization, commissioning and recommissioning, energy efficiency studies, and decarbonization projects for institutional, commercial, municipal, and federal government clients throughout the National Capital Region and across Canada.

The position will combine hands‑on technical analysis with site investigations, building systems assessment, energy conservation measure (ECM) development, commissioning, client interaction, and project management. The successful candidate will work closely with CIMA+'s mechanical, electrical, controls, sustainability, and building performance specialists to identify and implement practical solutions for existing buildings.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead and performenergy audits and building performance assessments, including ASHRAE Level 1 and Level 2 energy audits and detailed investigations of building systems.
• Conduct site investigations and assess existing HVAC, hydronic, plumbing, electrical, lighting, controls/BAS, and other energy-consuming systems.
• Analyze utility bills, interval data, submetering data, BAS trends, equipment operating data, and building operating schedules to identify energy-saving and operational improvement opportunities.
• Identify, develop, and evaluate energy conservation measures (ECMs) related to HVAC optimization, controls, heat recovery, electrification, heat pumps, lighting, envelope improvements, equipment replacement, and operational improvements.
• Perform engineering calculations to quantify energy, demand, operating cost, and greenhouse gas savings associated with proposed measures.
• Support energy management programs, including energy performance tracking, benchmarking, energy action plans, ongoing monitoring, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead and support commissioning, recommissioning, and retro-commissioning activities, including functional performance testing, BAS and control sequence reviews, trend analysis, deficiency identification, and verification of corrective actions.
• Review building automation system sequences and operating strategies and develop recommendations to improve equipment scheduling, setpoints, reset strategies, ventilation, temperature control, and overall system performance.
• Support measurement and verification (M&V) activities to confirm the performance and savings of implemented energy efficiency measures.
• Develop building dec