Senior Energy Planner

Company Description

At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

 

Job Description

AECOM is seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Energy & Sustainability Engineer to join our High-Performance Buildings and Communities team. This multi-disciplinary team provides design leadership and consulting to clients striving to deliver sustainable and resilient buildings and communities. Projects range from the design of net zero buildings to the development of city-wide or campus level decarbonization plans. We’re passionate about driving the essential transformation of the built environment to deliver a more sustainable and equitable future.

The Senior Energy & Sustainability Engineer can be located in our San Francisco, Los Angeles, Orange, Seattle, NYC, Atlanta, Chicago, DC or Denver offices.

The Senior Energy & Sustainability Engineer’s role is to apply technical expertise of building and infrastructure systems at a campus / community scale to develop practicable, pragmatic strategies to meet energy, GHG, and resilience goals. The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

• Leading the development of community- and portfolio-level energy strategies, considering, among other things: energy conservation, building electrification, onsite energy generation and storage, district energy, microgrids, infrastructure resilience, and monitoring and control systems. 
• Technical assessment of building/campus energy demand and potential supply strategies using a combination of modeling, proprietary software, and the development of customized analysis tools.
• Contribution to proposals and the management of small- to medium-sized projects and junior staff
• Preparing and presenting results and recommendations, in report or presentation format, to clients and design teams.

Our team is currently working on a wide variety of projects that this role will support, including decarbonization plans for energy utilities and college campuses, as well as energy resilience plans for municipal and federal governments. Recent projects include CU Boulder’s Energy Plan, designing the nation’s largest sewer-water heat recovery district energy system at the National Western Center in Denver, developing energy resilience plans for the Air Force, and creating LACCD’s decarbonization roadmap.

The varied and exciting nature of this work must be reflected in our team's expertise and skills; as such we seek applicants with a solid understanding of the principles of performance-led design for both buildings and campus- or community-level energy infrastructure (such as district energy and microgrids), and power generation. A high-level working knowledge of these systems and a propensity for creative problem-solving is therefore critical.  

The candidate will have a technical background such as mechanical, electrical, energy, civil engineering, building science, architecture, or similar. The ideal candidate will have professional experience in the building or energy sector. The candidate will need to be a team player who can work with others in a multi-disciplinary team to undertake technical analysis and produce reports under tight deadlines. The ability to develop and communicate ideas clearly will be seen as a significant strength in any potential candidate.

This is a role for someone who shares our passion for decarbonization and wants to scale up and diversify their contribution to this transition. Our team is constantly growing, and this role provides a unique opportunity to influence the industry and shape a team to deliver energy planning work for the future.

 

 

Qualifications

Must Have Skills/Experience (Including any required Certifications):

• Bachelor's degree required in Engineering, Building Sciences or a related field
• 6+ years' experience working in the energy or sustainable design sector

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred 8+ years of experience
• Masters' degree preferred in engineering, planning, or sustainability-related field
• Experience of energy or utilities master planning
• Experience in the assessment of distributed generation assets (solar PV, battery energy storage, etc.)
• Experience working with federal government
• Experience in the development of digital analysis tools / coding
• Applicable certifications/licenses e.g. PE, CEM, LEED AP, ENV SP
• Strong problem-solving, analytical and research skills
• Ability to balance various project and company responsibilities and deadlines, while maintaining professionalism and quality
• Adaptable and flexible, showing a willingness and ability to take on new projects or areas with or without supervision, as required
• Excellent written, graphical, and verbal communication skills

Additional Information

• Relocation compensation may be available for this position
• Willingness to travel up to 20% of the time
• Offered rate of compensation will be based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. The salary range for this position is $100,000 - $160,000.
• AECOM is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits program to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Depending on your employment status, AECOM benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D and disability benefits, paid time off, leaves of absence, voluntary benefits, perks, wellness and global well-being, and global EAP, Business Travel and Service Awards programs.

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM! Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.