Senior Sustainable Building Materials Embodied Carbon Specialist

The Senior Materials Specialist position is responsible for leading complex projects and managing, performing, and delivering technical, materials-focused analysis and strategic consulting to support clients to shape and achieve materials goals related to circularity, embodied carbon, health, and equity.

What You Will Do

Review and interpret design drawings, design models, specifications, and submittals. Provide design review to confirm compliance with owner’s project requirements, and other client and project goals. Perform and oversee technical analysis, such as healthy and sustainable materials optimization, scoring, etc.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role involves working on projects both at the building and portfolio scale to develop tailored approaches for clients to drive sustainable procurement decisions within their organization. The ideal candidate will have 6+ years of related experience, training or equivalent combination of education and experience working in a complementary field or sustainability project management.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, e.g., engineering, architecture, construction management, environmental science, sustainability, planning, or related disciplines.
• 6+ years of related experience, training or equivalent combination of education and experience working in a complementary field or sustainability project management.
• Manage and deliver technical work.
• Understanding of materials attributes and considerations.
• Knowledge and competency reading drawings and specifications, product documentation (HPDs, EPDs, product certifications, etc)
• Knowledge and competency using relevant software to support one or more of WBLCA, EC3, embodied carbon.
• Apply sound and diverse knowledge of materials principles and practices to a broad array of assignments.
• Perform work requiring independent judgement in evaluation, selection, and adaptation/modification of standard approach.
• Understand the materials landscape to leverage industry resources to independently solve problems encountered.

Benefits

• Medical – Monthly Premium 100% Paid for Employee
• Dental- Monthly Premium 100% Paid for Employee
• Vision – Monthly Premium 100% Paid for Employee
• Life and Short-Term & Long-term Disability Insurance- Monthly Premiums 100% Paid for Employee
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Paid time off – starting at 4 weeks PTO accrual annually
• Paid holidays – 11 per year
• Paid Volunteer Time – 8 hours per year
• Paid Parental Leave – up to 12 weeks family bonding leave for either parent, in addition to 6-8 weeks childbirth recovery
• 401(k) plan with many sustainable & socially equitable fund options
• Company 401(k) match
• Company Charitable Donation match
• Sustainable Commuting & Connectivity Subsidy
• Employee Fitness Benefit
• Hybrid schedules – 2 work-from-home days per week
• Flexible schedules