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Senior Building Performance Engineer

Vanderweil Engineers

Boston (MA)

Hybrid

USD 110,000 - 140,000

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Job summary

Vanderweil Engineers invites applications for a Senior Building Performance Engineer role in Boston, MA. This hybrid role involves collaboration with project managers to achieve sustainability goals, focusing on energy, water, and carbon optimization within building design. Candidates should have substantial experience in engineering analysis and leadership, as well as hold a relevant engineering degree and PE registration.

Benefits

401K company match
Flexible work schedule
Wellness program
Medical insurance
Vision insurance

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in building performance analysis or design engineering in a consulting context.
  • Ability to mentor junior engineers and manage teams effectively.
  • Experience with energy codes and metrics for building performance.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and propose energy, water, and carbon reduction opportunities during design.
  • Lead energy audits and decarbonization assessments.
  • Guide project teams to comply with energy codes and minimize risks.

Skills

Building performance analysis
Energy systems understanding
Mentorship
Project management
Energy audits
Data visualization

Education

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in mechanical engineering
Architectural engineering

Tools

eQuest
IES
EnergyPlus

Job description

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$110,000.00/yr - $140,000.00/yr

Additional compensation types

Annual Bonus

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Vanderweil Engineers is one of the largest and most respected privately-held MEP engineering firms in the United States. Sustainability is at the core of what we do. Recent projects include the largest solar photovoltaic array in New York City, multiple net-zero designs, a research facility designed to be the world’s most sustainable lab, and a zero-carbon steam-generating heat pump which will reduce the emissions of millions of square feet in Greater Boston.

More than 280 of our projects — a combined total of $24 billion in construction — have achieved certification under frameworks such as LEED, WELL, Fitwel, SITES, and Green Globes, and over 100 of our projects in design now are actively pursuing these certifications and others including Living Building Challenge. Vanderweil is a founding signatory of both the AIA2030 and the MEP 2040 Challenges, pledging to reduce and ultimately eliminate both the operational and embodied carbon in our infrastructure. We’ve also been reporting our design energy performance to AIA 2030 for a decade and a half as we work toward achieving net-zero across our portfolio.

About This Opportunity:

If you’re looking for an opportunity to grow your career with some of the best minds in the industry on world-class projects, we’re looking for you. We offer stable career growth via our expanding book of services and geographic footprint across a diversified project mix. Join us to do the best work of your career as a Senior Building Performance Engineer (Hybrid Role) in our growing Building Performance Group in Boston, MA, or in one of Vanderweil’s offices in New York, NY; Newark, NJ; Philadelphia, PA; Alexandria, VA; Atlanta, GA; or Miami, FL.

As a Senior Building Performance Engineer, you will proactively collaborate with our project managers and engineers internally, as well as externally with our owner, design, and construction partners to provide the analyses and insights that help clients solve complex challenges and exceed their sustainability goals. You will lead our clients to maximize the full potential of each project through design experience; energy, water, and carbon analyses; and certification achievements.

Some of your responsibilities will include the following:

  • Propose and develop holistic energy, water, and carbon reduction opportunities early in the design process, and back those ideas up with rigorous analysis and thoughtful data visualizations to clearly communicate complex concepts.
  • Evaluate architectural, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing system design and controls to optimize performance and track progress towards project goals.
  • Identify savings opportunities in existing buildings as part of energy audits and decarbonization assessments. Work with building owners to quantify and prioritize scope of upgrades and produce implementation plans.
  • Search for and synthesize applicable energy codes & policies (e.g., Massachusetts Stretch Energy Code, BERDO, Local Law 97, Washington DC BEPS, etc.). Compare paths to compliance, advise owners and design teams how these impact their buildings, and manage the project team to minimize compliance risk to the project.
  • Perform life-cycle cost analyses, solar photovoltaic feasibility analyses, and water reduction studies.
  • Lead junior engineers to create complex energy savings calculations and technical client-facing reports. Educate, delegate, and provide quality control for their analysis efforts.

Every Vanderweil Engineers team member brings something unique to the table. Here’s what we’re looking for in this role:

  • 5+ years of building performance analysis or design engineering in a consulting environment.
  • Ability to mentor junior engineers and delegate work.
  • Experience interfacing with internal and external clients.
  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in mechanical engineering, energy systems, or architectural engineering.
  • Well-tuned understanding of building physics and awareness of metrics used to quantify different dimensions of building performance (e.g. energy use intensity)
  • Ability to use sound engineering judgement and project management skills to make decisions based on project goals.
  • Familiarity with local and national standards (ASHRAE 90.1, IECC, LEED Reference Guides, etc.), decarbonization policy and trends (e.g. methodologies for beneficial electrification), and complex project typologies (laboratories, data centers, etc.).
  • Familiarity with alternative / renewable energy estimation techniques.
  • Experience with eQuest, IES, or EnergyPlus, and the ability to generate spreadsheet energy calculations are required.
  • Holds a PE registration.

Additional skills considered a plus

  • LEED AP BD+C, BEMP, and/or CEM Credential
  • Field experience including performing field surveys for energy audits, observation of construction progress, commissioning, and/or operating a facility.

Our Flexible & Hybrid Work Culture

At Vanderweil Engineers, we believe our best work is done when flexibility is offered. We know that work/life synergy is crucial to our employees.

Our flexible and hybrid work style allows team members to have the freedom to be innovative, driving results their way.

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in the workplace.

If you would like to connect with us for more information, please contact a member of our recruitment team or to learn more about our work culture, please visit us at www.vanderweil.com.

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This position has a salary range of $110,000 to $140,000 and bonus eligible depending on years of experience, licensure, skill sets and education. In addition, we offer 401K company match, flexible work schedule, benefits and wellness program. Reach out to us to discuss total rewards and compensation package.

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