Building Condition Assessor

**Building Condition Assessor**

At Salas O’Brien we tell our clients that we’re engineered for impact. This passion for making a difference applies just as much to our team as it does to our projects. That’s why we’re committed to living our values every day: inspiring, achieving, and connecting as shared owners of our success with a focus on a sustainable future.

Building for the long-term means that all of our team members can expect to work on amazing projects with a people-first approach to problem solving. It also means that each member of our team has truly limitless potential to build a unique, meaningful, and high-impact career—and they’ll receive great total rewards along the way.

**About Us**:
Founded in 1975, Salas O’Brien is an employee-owned engineering and professional services firm focused on achieving impact for our clients, our team, and the world. We know that tomorrow’s requirements are today’s opportunities, and we are here to design lasting solutions for pressing challenges.

We work across a variety of industries providing integrated engineering and consulting services. Our specialized experience includes design for data centers, healthcare, science and technology, high-rise buildings, clean energy, education, and other building types as well as structural and building sciences, infrastructure asset management, advanced robotics, and more.

Our technical expertise is paired with an exceptional team of business development, human resources, finance and accounting, information technology, and marketing professionals, all of whom play a key role in bringing our commitments to life every day.

The Building Condition Assessor applies both technical standards and code knowledge of building and construction methods in conducting assessments for the purpose of evaluating both condition and existing deficiencies of individual building elements, and entire systems related to building envelope, site, structure, mechanical and electrical, vertical transportation and makes long range reporting and capital planning for repairs, replacement of these building elements.

**Job Duties**
- Applies knowledge of building construction, systems, building codes and standards as it relates to high level visual review of existing conditions of buildings and their sites.
- Conducting site inspections to collect data including interviews and digital photographs, review of existing drawings and previous reports and documented history of the facility. Our investigations are limited to visual, and not destructive in nature.
- Ability to recognize building system defects, review current conditions, evaluate upcoming capital expenditure needs, and providing replacement and repair cost estimates in the form of a Capital Plan for all facility components and systems.
- Our Technical Reviews include Structural Systems related to building foundations, framing of walls, floors and roofing elements: Building envelope elements related to exterior wall cladding and waterproofing, openings, and roofing; Interior finishes and components; Siteworks related to paving, drainage and landscaping; Mechanical Plumbing and Electrical systems and their components; Fire-and life safety systems, Elevators and other forms of vertical transportation.
- Preparing in-depth Building Condition Assessment reports for government, private owners and institutional lenders
- Supporting existing client relationships and business development activities.
- Assist the team with small architectural and building envelope restoration projects.
- Assist with preparing proposals and project file documentation.

**Qualifications**
- Minium of a Technologist diploma with a preference for a university degree in a relevant field such as Architecture, Interior Design, Building Science Structural/Mechanical/Electrical Engineering or other related field; with 1-5 years’ experience in a similar role. Past internships will be considered.
- Current or potential professional/technologist registration (such as CET) is an asset but not required.
- Proficient in the process of developing cost estimates for the replacement and repair of building component and systems.
- Experience and knowledge of architectural building envelope and interior components, structural systems, mechanical and electrical building systems or site components.
- Excellent organizational skills, including ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment and work on a team.
- Excellent writing and verbal communication skills
- comfortable with technical writing in English.
- Possess a valid driver’s license.
- Ability to travel for up to a week out of the Calgary Metro area on occasion with short notice. Our work is typically throughout Alberta and British Colombia but travel to support our other offices is a possibility.
- Comfortable with working at heights and confined spaces at times.
- Ability to work overtime and travel when required.

**Location**:Calgary Hybrid (3 days in-office)

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