Senior Energy and Sustainability Engineer

Responsibilities

• Project and Construction Management Duties:
  • Scope, manage, and complete Building Efficiency Program projects.
  • Develop project scope, project budgets, maintain and track progress, expenses, and energy cost recovery throughout project payback period and through completion.
  • Develop proposals, get buy-in from stakeholders, develop project budget and schedule.
  • Gather documentation to fulfill permitting requirements.
  • Maintain detailed task lists to track progress on multiple projects.
  • Conduct periodic project meetings and site visits with stakeholders to track progress.
  • Oversee contractors from scoping to procurement and execution of the work.
  • Foster communication with team members, project stakeholders, and contractors.
  • Serve as customer’s point of contact for receiving project questions or technical issues.
• Engineering Duties:
  • Support Building Efficiency Program projects.
  • Confirm existing conditions from record drawing archive reviews, site visits, and building automation system analyses.
  • Find and diagnose building system deficiencies, recommend and implement solutions.
  • Develop lists of energy conservation measures to implement.
  • Provide engineering calculations and analysis of building systems.
  • Perform HVAC ventilation and airflow calculations to determine optimized setpoints.
  • Develop HVAC documents including airflow diagrams, airflow setpoints and pressurization plans.
  • Develop HVAC controls sequences of operation and control diagrams.
  • Perform lighting calculations, select light fixtures and controls, and develop lighting plans.
  • Procure building system components to support scope of work.
  • Cook with occupants, stakeholders and contractors to meet construction schedules.
  • Perform site inspection walk-throughs with contractors to ensure completion of scope of work.
  • Review design projects for compliance with UVA’s Green Building Standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Architectural Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, or related engineering field.
• A minimum of seven (7) years of related experience, which may include commercial building HVAC design or project management, HVAC controls engineering, commissioning, energy performance contracting, or similar fields.

Preferred Experience

• Licensed as a Professional Engineer (PE) strongly preferred.
• Accreditation as a EIT (Engineering in Training), CEM (Certified Energy Manager), ASHRAE Building Commissioning Professional Certification (BCxP), Certified Commissioning Professional (CCP), LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) Green Associate, LEED Accredited Professional.
• Experience with laboratory and/or healthcare HVAC design or commissioning.
• Experience with lighting and lighting control systems.
• Hands-on experience with lighting control systems such as Acuity nLight, Lutron Quantum.
• Hands-on experience with HVAC building automation systems such as Johnson Controls Metasys and Automated Logic WebCTRL.
• Experience with energy modeling software.