Sustainable Buildings Specialist - Intermediate

What is the opportunity?

We are looking for a sustainability generalist with great communication skills who has a desire to learn and grow through this opportunity with projects across North America. Reporting to the Sustainable Building + Climate Action Lead, the Sustainable Buildings Specialist will be part of Entuitive’s Sustainable Performance team working on working on sustainable design, construction, and certification of buildings across multiple sectors.

What will you do?

• Communicate with clients and coordinate with the team and other disciplines to deliver on client needs as they relate to Sustainability and Climate Risk.
• Lead design and constructions teams through the sustainable building process.
• Work within established sustainability frameworks including LEED, BuiltGreen, Green Globes, Envision, etc.
• Lead or assist in conducting climate risk and resilience assessments to design for a changing climate.
• Prepare presentations, and present to clients and industry as required.
• Coordinate meetings with clients, design team, and project stakeholders to define sustainability goals and review project progress.
• Understand, monitor, and adhere to project schedule and budget.
• Be a champion for sustainability in your projects, display a positive problem-solving attitude and commitment to sustainable outcomes.
• Be a mentor for those around you and students/juniors you work with, to help build the next generation of go to sustainability folk at Entuitive.
• Demonstrate knowledge in Sustainable Performance via continuous learning and education of trends in sustainability in the industry and systems required to achieve circular, low-carbon, and community focused projects.

What do you need to succeed?

• Completion of an educational program in construction management, sustainability, engineering, environmental sciences, building sciences or another related field.
• 3-5 years of industry experience with a demonstrated commitment to sustainability.
• Knowledge of, and familiarity with, the construction industry and sustainable building trends, codes, and standards. Construction management work experience is an asset.
• LEED AP, ENVSP, or equivalent qualifications.
• Familiarity with financial reporting and budgeting is an asset.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Familiarity with embodied carbon or climate resilience is an asset.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written with the ability to manage complex situations with multiple stakeholders.
• Self-driven individual who shows initiative and respect in dealing with others.
• Experience using and proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, Bluebeam Revu, etc.
• A positive attitude, confidence, and a good sense of humor.

Why Entuitive?

• Flexible working hours, 37.5 hour work week.
• Minimum 3 days a week in office. Building strong relationships and collaborating internally is important to us!
• Commitment to staff growth through mentoring and training.
• Employer paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums for employees and their dependents.
• Generous parental leave policy.
• RRSP matching up to 5%. 
• Participation in our discretionary profit-sharing plan.

How does collaboration happen?

All positions require in-office presence 3 days a week. Building strong relationships and collaborating internally is important to us! Collaborate virtually for the remainder of the week. 

About Sustainable Performance at Entuitive

We are a highly motivated group of engineers, designers, and consultants, and we understand the impact our industry and our projects have on the environment and on our communities, and we work hard to make sure we are delivering low-carbon, high-performance, positive social impact projects for our clients and end users. We take a whole lifecycle approach to designing buildings and infrastructure and work to measure and reduce the operational and embodied carbon of our projects.

We achieve this by weaving sustainability throughout the organization and by facilitating close collaboration between different services and teams to deliver a holistic sustainable solution. Further to our project delivery approach, we also invest in innovation through dedicated research and development of tools to ensure our methodologies are efficient and effective.

We provide educational opportunities to staff to continuously grow our collective knowledge in sustainable design, and we employ strategies to measure and reduce our own operational carbon footprint as an organization. Sustainable Performance is at the core of everything we do and drives our strategy for delivering uncompromising performance.

In this role, you will learn from leaders in the sustainability industry and grow your career to be a confident, knowledgeable sustainability professional able to work on a broad variety of projects.

At Entuitive, we prioritize human-centric evaluation methods and do not utilize AI for screening or recruitment processes.