Building Performance Specialist Ii

Who We Are

BGIS is a leading provider of customized facility management and real estate services. With our combined team of over 6, 500 globally, we relentlessly focus on enabling innovation through the services we deliver, while actively looking for new opportunities that will enable innovation for our clients’ businesses. Globally, we manage over 320 million square feet of client portfolios across 30,000+ locations in North America, Europe, Middle East, Australia and Asia.

SUMMARY

The Building Performance Specialist II provides building energy engineering and re-commissioning services to optimize building systems and operations for the purpose of achieving greater energy savings for assigned portfolios.

At this position level, the individual:

- Receives guidance and support
- Is responsible for: Less complex facilities
- Less complex and/or smaller building equipment and systems, and/or smaller number of building equipment and systems

KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Energy Retrofit Project
- Reviews current state of building equipment and identifies energy savings opportunities
- Conducts analysis to determine project costs and expected energy savings
- Prepares proposals summarizing project costs, expected energy savings and rationale for energy retrofit projects
- Provides technical guidance to project managers for building energy retrofit projects
- Reviews and/or develops scope of work in collaboration with project managers
- Provides recommendations for new product selections and current product upgrade opportunities
- Assists in the development of measurement, verification and monitoring methodologies to verify energy savings

Re-commissioning Projects
- Reviews current state of building operations to identify opportunities to improve occupant comfort and energy savings
- Provides recommendations for in-scope activities for re-commissioning projects
- Assists in the development of procedures to perform re-commissioning activities
- Performs re-commissioning activities such as making operational and system programming changes
- Develops documentations outlining findings, operational and system programming changes performed

LEED Certification
- Conducts building operations and equipment audit and documents findings
- Prepares reports providing descriptions of building systems and structural conditions as well as maintenance procedures that affect energy consumption
- Provides recommendations for energy conservation projects to support LEED certification attainment
- Other duties assigned

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
- University degree (mechanical, building science or building engineering) or professional certification (e.g. P. Eng, CMA, CGA or equivalent courses)
- 1 to 3 years of building engineering work experience which may be attained through a formal engineering degree co-op program
- Developing knowledge of building equipment and systems as well as operations in order to investigate and identify deficiencies, energy conservation opportunities as well as potential solutions
- Developing knowledge of ASHRAE standards
- Strong analytical skills
- Ability to estimate costs
- Understanding of the interconnection of building design, construction and operations with building equipment and systems and how it affects energy consumption
- Knowledge of building automation systems, an asset
- Ability to review building plans, specifications, design, bid and construction documents

Licenses and/or Professional Accreditation
- Professional Engineering Designation
- LEED Certification from Canada Green Building Council, an asset
- Certified Energy Manager from Association of Energy Engineers, an asset
- Certified Measurement & Verification Professional from Association of Energy Engineers, an asset
- Certified Commissioning Process Management Professional from ASHRAE, an asset

At BGIS we believe that diversity and inclusion is a key business driver, such that we never lose sight of its importance as it is woven into the fabric of our organization. We are committed to maintaining a barrier-free recruitment process by providing equal employment opportunities through recruiting and retention of individuals of all backgrounds. We recognize that promoting diversity is an essential component of our continuing pursuit for organizational success