Vice President - Building Energy and Climate Solutions (Built Ecology)

Who We Are

At WSP, we are united by the common purpose of creating positive, long-lasting impacts for the communities we serve through a culture of innovation, integrity, and inclusion. We are looking to grow our teams with future-ready champions and change makers who are committed to collaboration, continuous learning, and thoughtful solutions that lead to meaningful outcomes for the communities we serve. To do this, we hire candidates with a wide range of experiences, skillsets, backgrounds, and walks of life. We actively foster a work environment and culture where inclusion and diversity are part of our fundamental structure.

Our Business

As one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms, we work with our clients to create buildings that support their business goals while also restoring balance with the natural environment and sustaining healthy resilient communities. As part of a worldwide community of built environment experts, we bring creative problem-solving, future-ready planning, innovative design solutions, and deep technical expertise in building systems. When combined with our world-class expertise in environmental, social and governance (ESG), climate resiliency, and earth sciences, we are one of the largest and best sustainability consultancies in the world. As part of the team, you will have access to an unparalleled network of resources and endless opportunities to collaborate on exciting projects with diverse teammates from across the globe.

Built Ecology is WSP's US buildings sustainability practice, providing a broad range of services including sustainability strategy and planning, goal setting and workshop facilitation, high-performance design assistance, complex 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 green building programs, and decarbonization of large building portfolios. Our solutions are typically innovative, integrated, data-driven, and practical.

This Opportunity

WSP has an immediate need for a Vice President - Building Energy and Climate Solutions (Built Ecology) with a specialization in Energy and Climate solutions to join Built Ecology, WSP's growing buildings sustainability practice. This position will/could work out of WSP's offices in New York, NY, Washington DC or Chicago, IL. The individual will grow and strengthen our team by securing, staffing, managing, and delivering complex projects and client-facing engagements. Candidates should be passionate about sustainability, exhibit technical knowledge and expertise in future-ready energy and climate solutions, strengthen and grow client relationships, and demonstrate leadership skills and ability to deliver high-quality programs and deliverables.

Come join us and help create a more sustainable, healthy, resilient, and inclusive future!

Ideal candidates will exhibit the following characteristics

• Passionate about creating a sustainable, healthy, resilient, and equitable built environment

• Expertise in high-performance MEP systems and facades, building science, and building performance standards

• Passionate about contributing to, collaborating with, and mentoring across our national sustainability team.

• Presents complex concepts and solutions in ways that are clear, concise, creative, and compelling, with excellent verbal, written, and visual communication skills.

• Uses integrative thinking and creative problem-solving to develop practical and impactful solutions.

Your Impact

• Direct, facilitate, and support multidisciplinary project team to establish high performance, general sustainability, and Net Zero goals, including leading and overseeing the development of various technical models beyond basic whole building energy modeling

• Work closely with MEP design teams and project managers to lead the exploration of sustainable design solutions early in the project design and define a pathway to exceeding local codes and stretch codes

• Utilize energy and GHG modeling tools to complete carbon modeling and develop net zero carbon roadmaps

• Interpret climate information and building use typologies to inform building design strategies

• Provide LEED and other certifications strategy and advice, particularly around energy and IEQ aspects

• Develop and provide quality control reviews for Built Ecology deliverables related to energy and climate strategy, planning, analysis, and implementation

• Contribute to the development and improvement of our project delivery standards, to ensure a high quality of work is consistently delivered by the national team

• Strengthen WSP's relationships with existing clients and develop new clients

• Have a leadership presence in the industry and support business development

• Lead an integrative approach to problem-solving by learning and including other experts and disciplines within WSP

• Manage and support staff development, including in the areas of energy and climate.

Who You Are

• Bachelor's Degree in a building design or building science discipline, including Mechanical Engineering, Architectural Engineering, Architecture, Building Science or similar

• 12+ years of experience in sustainability, energy, and climate consulting for buildings

• Familiarity with IECC and ASHRAE requirements, Building Performance Standards and stretch codes focused on energy efficiency and electrification

• Experience managing staff and supporting staff development

• Ability to read and understand architectural and engineering drawings, specifications, and design documents

• Knowledge of mechanical system architecture and components

• LEED Accredited Professional

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional Engineer or Registered Architect

• Experience with energy modeling (IES-VE, OpenStudio, EnergyPlus), load calculations, and district systems

• Experience coordinating green building, healthy building, and building performance certifications

• Experience with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, Science-based Targets, and other climate-related reporting frameworks

• Knowledge of mechanical systems and building physics for data centers, hospitals, laboratories, advanced manufacturing, and battery energy storage systems

WSP Benefits

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee's career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

Compensation

Expected Salary (all locations): $156,300 - $218,900

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

#LI-MQ1

About WSP

WSP 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.