We are an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you’re in the right place.
The best-integrated design firm in the world has an opening for a Building Performance Analyst, Sustainability Certifications.
DLR Group operates within a hybrid work model, supporting flexibility between office time and work from home.
Position Summary
DLR Group is looking for a passionate and experienced certification specialist to join our High Performance Design team to provide Project Administration of green building certification systems. This includes but is not limited to LEED, WELL, LBC, Green Globes, Reset, CHPS, and Envision.
Locations:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Seattle, WA
- Cleveland, OH
- Phoenix, AZ
The successful candidate will:
- Be the project team expert regarding sustainable building certification systems, their specific requirements, and documentation.
- Manage Building Performance Analysts workload management, mentorship, and career management.
- Be responsible for coordinating and administering certification systems.
- Effectively translate technically rigorous sustainable building certification requirements to clients, design teams, contractors, and stakeholder groups.
- Coordinate the design team’s efforts to achieve client sustainability goals.
- Be proficient in a variety of national certification systems such as LEED, WELL, LBC, and others.
- Be able to learn and become proficient in regional certification systems such as Minnesota B3, Austin Energy Green Building, Calgreen/Title 24, and others.
- Facilitate VALUES sustainability brainstorming/stakeholder engagement charettes.
- Lead project meetings to review and explain sustainable certification requirements.
- Lead design charettes and brainstorming session with all stakeholders.
- Maintain profitability on certification projects.
- Assist in writing fee proposals. Ensure sustainability features are included in construction documents.
- Provide accurate, on-time delivery of certification documentation.
- Provide quality assurance and quality control for certification submissions.
- Be able to complete certification documentation for the project team.
- Work across sectors and regions on multiple projects simultaneously.
- Help to guide, inform, and achieve clients’ sustainability goals.
- Be a constant and active advocate for sustainable design.
- Mentor other professionals to help grow our certifications team.
- Evaluate multiple rating systems and certifications to fit the client’s sustainability goals.
- Prepare crosswalks, pros/cons, and certification costs for multiple rating systems to inform client decisions.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in architecture, engineering, construction, sustainability, or related field.
- 1-3 years experience as a LEED Project Administrator.
- Project experience in 3-5 LEED projects.
- LEED Accredited Professional, BD+C.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Masters degree in architecture, engineering, construction, sustainability, or related field.
- 5+ years experience as a LEED Project Administrator.
- LEED PA on at least 2 LEED projects that achieved LEED certification.
- LEED Project Administration experience in LEED v4 and v4.1, and in additional LEED programs (ID+C, Schools, C+S, O+M).
- Living Future Accreditation, WELL AP, or other accreditation.
- Working knowledge or experience in WELL, LBC, Green Globes, CHPS, Envision.
We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients’ success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.
Through our values – commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork – we elevate the human experience through design, together.
We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V.
