Building Performance Technical Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee designated building sustainability and performance initiatives, which encompass building assessments, environmental and indoor air quality testing, energy audits, retrocommissioning, building-performance evaluations, data verification, and technical work.

• Independently strategize and implement assigned projects or technical workstreams while adhering to established methodologies and quality benchmarks.

• Assess building conditions and performance, analyze technical information and evidence, and formulate clear findings and recommendations.

• Manage assigned scope, which includes planning, coordination, scheduling, budgeting, deliverables, documentation, and quality assurance.

• Act as the project manager for an engagement or technical lead for a specific segment of work, based on the project framework.

• Direct asset-level technical coordination and client engagement with property managers, building engineers, facility teams, vendors, consultants, and other involved parties.

• Coordinate responsibilities, transitions, inputs, and outputs across RE Tech teams.

• Apply independent technical judgment and escalate complex, disputed, high-risk, or out-of-scope issues as necessary.

• Provide technical input for scopes, level-of-effort estimates, proposals, contracts, and invoicing.

• Manage designated work within defined commercial parameters.

• Share expertise and offer technical guidance, review, coaching, and delegation to team members.

• Contribute practical insights into methodologies, tools, templates, workflows, and standard operating procedures.

⛳️ Requirements

• Relevant educational background, technical training, professional certifications, and/or proven experience in building performance, facility operations, sustainability, commissioning, controls, HVAC operations, energy auditing, environmental testing, building science, engineering, or related fields.

• Equivalent professional experience may be accepted as a substitute for formal educational requirements.

• Proven experience in conducting building assessments, energy audits, certification-related fieldwork, environmental testing, commissioning, retrocommissioning, or similar technical services.

• Documented experience in independently coordinating technical assignments, deliverables, stakeholders, and deadlines.

• Experience collaborating directly with commercial buildings, facilities teams, property management teams, or real estate clients.

• Strong understanding of commercial building systems and building-performance evaluation methods, including energy auditing, retrocommissioning, indoor environmental quality, environmental testing, data verification, and green building certification standards.

• Ability to interpret building documentation, operational and performance data, field observations, testing results, and other technical information.

• Capability to independently plan and execute field investigations and technical assessments.

• Excellent project management, organizational, technical writing, and stakeholder coordination skills.

• Ability to manage multiple tasks and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Skill in identifying and proactively managing delivery risks, dependencies, and issues.

• Competence in coordinating work among contributors and stakeholders while ensuring accountability for quality, schedule, and designated scope.

• Strong professional judgment, ethics, and attention to detail.

• Regular domestic travel to client sites and commercial properties is required.

• Ability to work in mechanical rooms, rooftops, equipment spaces, and other operational areas.

• Capacity to walk and stand for extended durations; use stairs and ladders where permitted; and work in noisy, hot, cold, dusty, poorly lit, or confined spaces.

• Proficiency in operating and transporting testing equipment, monitoring devices, laptops, tablets, and necessary personal protective gear.

🏝️ Benefits

• Frequent domestic travel to client sites and commercial properties.

• Reasonable accommodations may be provided to allow individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.