Building Performance Engineer (Energy Auditor)
The buildings that make up the landscape of our daily lives seem like permanent fixtures, fastened to a time and place. But what if that didn’t have to be true? What if our built environment — where we live, learn, play, and conduct business — carried us forward instead?
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Stantec’s Carbon Impact Team is a nationally integrated community of practice of collaborative design and consulting professionals. We provide professional consulting in support of innovative, high-performance projects, including building performance monitoring and optimization, integrated design and green building facilitation, and design guidance for new buildings and retrofit projects.
We work with a diverse group of clients and project types in health care, education, institutional, infrastructure, airport, commercial, and community development sectors in support of projects seeking high performance outcomes and/or certification. These include net-zero energy, carbon neutral, Passive House, LEED, WELL and Living Building Challenge projects.
Within the Buildings Engineering Practice Area, the Carbon Impact Team provides consulting services in support of high quality and high performance projects, including performance engineering, rating system facilitation, climate risk and resiliency, energy management, and energy simulation services The service areas reflect the interconnected systems-based nature of sustainability and include Commissioning, Energy Audits, Measurement & Verification services, Electrification and support for Building Condition Assessments. This is where great people and great ideas truly make a difference.
Your Opportunity
Stantec is currently seeking a self-motivated individual with specialized expertise in building audits, energy efficiency, and building energy simulation. The successful candidate will deliver technical deliverables within Stantec’s Carbon Impact Team, including responsibility for proposal development and delivering audit and energy analysis assignments.
The qualified candidate will have demonstrated background in ASHREA audits, energy-efficient system design approaches and energy conservation measures (ECMs) simulation, certification systems like BOMA and LEED, energy analysis studies, and energy management & incentive programs. A sound knowledge of HVAC and lighting systems, building control systems, ECMs, greenhouse gas emission, and building energy simulation programs is expected. Exceptional communication skills, the ability to provide excellent client service and a commitment to sustainable design are essential for this position.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Provide high-quality technical services for clients, including energy assessments, options analysis, retrofit planning, measurement and verification, and client education.
- Delivery of energy auditing and retro-commissioning services
- Collaborate with peers and team to deliver multiple projects on time, and on budget
- Liase with client staff, client principals, property management and operations teams and construction trades
- Collaborate to define energy auditing and re-commissioning strategies as well as electrification and fuel switching approaches
- Provide the necessary deliverables related to energy incentive programs on behalf of the clients
- Identify and develop energy conservation measures including calculations to demonstrate benefits (Life cycle costing, energy and energy cost savings, incentives, emissions, ROI, etc.)
- Develop and deliver measurement and verification plans and services
- Provide commissioning authority services for new construction and retrofit projects
- Develop clear and concise written reports that convey technical information, understanding of the client’s needs and objectives and recommendations to meet these objectives
- Collaborate with mechanical and electrical engineering teams, both internal and external, to implementing energy conservation measures
- Identify strategies and solutions, for clients that improve energy performance, indoor air quality, and thermal comfort
- Keep up to date with energy management industry and technological changes.
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Proven experience (5+ years) providing technical delivery of energy audits, retro-commissioning, facilities management HVAC or process engineering improvement, and/or electrical/controls optimization, installation or operations
- Ability to mentor a team of developing energy professionals and provide supervisory oversight and senior review for project deliverables.
- RETScreen experience is required and IES VE experience an asset.
- Sound knowledge of HVAC and lighting systems, building control systems, energy conservation measures, greenhouse gas emission factors, and building physics.
- Possess technical knowledge and hands-on field experience in energy auditing and retro-commissioning including building systems, energy end-use breakdown, functional testing, diagnostics, trending, energy calculations, capital planning and implementing improvements
- Strong background in energy-efficient/low carbon system concepts and approaches and energy conservation measures simulation, LEED rating systems, energy analysis studies, and energy management & incentive programs, with an experience in completing applications and reports to meet program requirements.
- Knowledge, experience, and understanding of building systems operations, design concepts and impacts on energy efficiency
- Knowledge, experience, and understanding of building codes, code requirements for energy efficiency and thermal comfort, and other related standards (ASHRAE 90.1, 55 & 62, NECB, etc.)
- Ability to obtain and analyze field data and building automation system trend data
- Thorough understanding of construction drawings and specifications
- Ability to compile financial and statistical analyses
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Advanced Excel skills (complex formulas, custom scripting, VBA) a plus
- Exceptional problem solving, time management and decision-making skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and an ability to provide excellent client service.
- Strong professional verbal and written communication skills -ability to communicate in a timely manner appropriate with clients and internal team members
Education and Experience
- A mechanical engineering degree or equivalent with 5 years of energy management experience is required at a minimum.
- Graduates from other numerate disciplines with relevant experience and a good understanding of building engineering systems may be considered such as energy management training from an accredited educational organization e.g., Sustainable Energy Management Advanced Certificate (SEMAC) from BCIT
- Registered (or eligible for registration) as a P. Eng., E.I.T. or C.E.T. with a Canadian Professional Association or Certifying Body, a plus.
- Preferred credentials include: Certified Energy Manager (CEM or EMIT), Certified Measurement and Verification Professional (CMVP) from Association of Energy Engineers (AEE), LEED Green Associate or AP.
This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other’s talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.