This Opportunity
WSP, an award winning and innovative multi-disciplinary engineering consulting firm, is looking for a Job Title for the Built Ecology team in Chicago, IL. 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
Ideal candidates will exhibit the following characteristics:
- Passionate about creating a sustainable, healthy, resilient, and equitable built environment
- Driven to evaluate and recommend solutions that deliver high-performance design outcomes
- Background in high-performance building design, analysis, and consulting
- Strong verbal, written, and visual communication skills
- Committed to working with and supporting a national sustainability team
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead detailed energy modeling and building performance analysis activities to achieve established performance targets, LEED certification, code compliance, and other energy performance goals
- Utilize energy modeling tools to complete carbon modeling and develop net zero carbon roadmaps
- Interpret climate information and building use typologies to inform building design strategies
- Perform daylight analysis and CFD modeling to evaluate high-performance design strategies and support project design decisions
- Write reports detailing analysis activities and design advice
- Liaise internally to facilitate the achievement of project sustainability objectives
- Review building documentation for the integration of high-performance design aspects
- Provide LEED strategy and advice, particularly around energy and IEQ aspects
- Deliver high performance design analysis and project design advice of a high technical standard, integrated across architecture and building systems
- Research new and existing technologies for application in the built environment with a focus on electrification, grid-interactive technologies, and district scale solutions
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in a building design or building science discipline that could include: Mechanical Engineering, Architectural Engineering, Architecture, Building Science or similar
- 3-5+ years of energy modeling experience for high-performance projects, building certification (i.e. LEED, Passive House, net-zero, EnergyStar, etc.), and code compliance
- Ability to independently read and interpret architectural and engineering drawings
- Familiarity with IECC and ASHRAE requirements and energy modeling protocols
- Knowledge of mechanical system architecture and components
- Experience with IES-VE, OpenStudio, and/or EnergyPlus
- LEED Green Associate
Preferred Qualifications:
- Building Energy Modeling Professional certification
- Professional Engineer or Registered Architect
- LEED Accredited Professional
- Experience with parametric energy modeling, load calculations, carbon analysis, and district systems
- Familiarity with Building Performance Standards and stretch codes focused on energy efficiency and electrification
- Knowledge of mechanical systems and building physics for data centers, hospitals, laboratories, advanced manufacturing, and battery energy storage systems
- Proficient in Rhino and Grasshopper, C#, Python, and/or other programming languages
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About WSPWSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.
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