Senior Consultant – Building LCA (Built Ecology)

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 Senior Consultant – Building LCA (Built Ecology) to join Built Ecology, WSP’s growing buildings sustainability practice. This position will work out of our Boston, MA, with consideration for the other locations listed above. 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 in building life cycle assessments and embodied carbon, and demonstrate the leadership skills necessary to deliver high‐quality projects, programs, and deliverables. 

Ideal candidates will exhibit the following characteristics:

• Passionate about creating a sustainable, healthy, resilient, and equitable built environment
• Expertise in sustainable materials, high-performance design, low-carbon construction, and building science
• Passionate about collaborating with and mentoring members of our national building’s sustainability team.
• Presents complex ideas and solutions that are clear, concise, creative, and compelling.
• Uses integrative thinking and creative problem-solving to develop practical and impactful solutions.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead detailed whole-building LCA modeling, analysis, and consulting activities on multiple projects to achieve established performance targets, green building certifications, and other LCA-related project goals.
• Utilize LCA modeling results to develop for low-carbon design strategies, sustainable materials recommendations, and net zero carbon roadmaps.
• Develop a comprehensive bill of materials for each WBLCA study that leverages existing BIM models, drawings and specifications. Use your knowledge of building materials, drawings, and assemblies to ensure that material quantities are complete and accurate.
• Identify and assign environmental data to each building materials in compliance with established standards, regulations, and other project requirements.
• Coordinate and delegate activities with other LCA practitioners to meet our quality requirements and deadlines.
• Lead clients and multidisciplinary project teams through the process of understanding, establishing and implementing embodied carbon, circularity and sustainability goals, providing technical support for sustainable materials specifications and sourcing, feasibility assessments, and constructability guidance.
• Maintain expertise in whole building life cycle assessment methodologies (e.g. ISO14040/44, EN 15978)
• Provide LEED, ILFI and other certifications strategy and advice related to LCAs and whole-building GHG emissions.
• Contribute to our building LCA tools, templates, playbooks, quality procedures, and other resources.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, engineering, building science, built environment, and/or sustainability.
• 5-7 years of experience in sustainability, energy, and climate consulting for buildings, including at least 3 years of applied professional experience in life cycle assessments and embodied carbon analysis.
• Strong working knowledge of GHG accounting practices and life cycle assessment software, such as One Click LCA, EC3, Tally LCA is essential.
• Knowledge of standards and methods for assessing and reporting on carbon performance of building design projects
• Familiarity with IECC and ASHRAE requirements, Building Performance Standards and stretch codes focused on energy efficiency and electrification
• Ability to read and understand architectural and engineering drawings, specifications, and design documents
• Knowledge of building construction materials, mechanical system architecture and components
• LEED Accredited Professional

Preferred Qualifications:

• Professional Engineer or Registered Architect
• Experience with environmental product declaration and product category rules
• Experience with LCA software (e.g. SimaPro or openLCA, IES-VE, OpenStudio)
• 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

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): $99,800 - $135,000

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.

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Salary : $99,800 - $135,000