Opportunity to join a juggernaut within the building enclosure consulting space, however is a multi-disciplinary firm with multiple service lines and specialities. With history going back 100+ years and currently in over a 100 countries and 1,000 locations this is a company that is constantly growing and innovating. With this being a semi- remote opportunity within the Washington D.C area.
The scope and size of this extended engineering family has been achieved by keeping its focus on the Kaizen business model, always striving to improve and grow not only the company but everyone within it. While also keeping its primary objective of adhering to local,national & international laws and regulations and showing integrity and honesty at every moment.
Building Science Leader
As the worldwide leader of inspection, testing and certification services for the built environment, this position will require someone who wants to further improve the cabalbilities and scope of its team. As a specialist group sitting at the forefront of the industry you will have the ability to manage and consult on projects from a 360 perspective from the pre-design phase all the way through to the operations and maintenance phase.
Responsibilities:
- Grow the local operations by balancing staff workloads and bringing in new work such that staff are adequately utilised
- Mentor and train new building sciences team members.
- Provide on-the-job training and mentoring
- Provide new design consulting and peer reviews of plans and specifications for building enclosures
- Perform review of architectural drawings, shop drawings and submittals pertaining to the building enclosure
- Perform field performance testing and water leakage testing of roofing and waterproofing systems, windows, curtain walls, and other building elements.
- Provide construction administration services, including mock-up testing and shop drawing reviews, and conduct factory inspections and site visits.
- Perform forensic investigations, documentation of existing conditions including wall claddings, windows, curtain wall systems, roofs, skylights, plaza waterproofing and below grade elements.
- Provide remediation design of building enclosures.
- Assisting in meeting profit center financial goals.
- Assist Regional manager in profit center financials (e.g. forecasting)
- Provide support as the primary client contact for projects and develop client relationships
- Prepare professionally written technical reports for design and construction phase services
- Litigation support for projects involving all of the issues discussed above
- Develop the scope of services and prepare proposals
- Assemble and manage project teams
- Participation in professional organizations, author papers, attend conferences, and/or perform work on technical committees
- Contribute positively to team morale
- Contribute to the servant leadership model
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in Architecture, Engineering or Architectural Engineering - preferred
- 10 - 15 years of industry experience - preferred
- Professional registration or ability to obtain registration within one year, preferred
- Technical knowledge of building construction
- Technical understanding of building enclosure systems
- Experience in managing a range of small to large projects
- Management Experience
- Ability to perform work from ladders, boom-lifts, scaffolds, roofs, etc.
- Ability to efficiently work on projects independently and in a team environment
- Ability to read and understand architectural drawings and specifications
- Ability to perform office tasks and physical labor tasks
- Strong technical writing and communication skills
- Ability to nurture client relationships
- Consistent and professional interaction and communication with clients and project team
- Active in professional organization(s)
- Excellent organizational and project management skills
- Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines
- Ability to travel outside local area, depending on local work load and project locations
- Must have a valid driver's license and an acceptable Motor Vehicle Report
- Ability to pass a pre-employment physical and drug screening
- Participation/leadership in national associations is a plus
Preferred Skills:
- Field and design experience with diverse building enclosure types
- Air barriers
- Roofing
- Fenestrations
- Waterproofing
- Safety Training/Scaffold Certification
- Analyses (e.g., faรงade performance calculations)
- Building enclosure testing
- Property / faรงade condition assessments
- AutoCad/Revit/BIM/Sketch-up proficiency
- Interest in taking a leadership role within the organization
- Interest/strength in business development
Why Join?
Join a world leader in the $250 billion Quality Assurance market, with a proven, high-quality business model and a global network of customer-focused operations and highly engaged subject matter experts. We exercise our spirit of innovation, the passion of our people and our unmatched customer commitment to realize our purpose of making the world an ever better, safer, and more sustainable place for all.
What we have to offer:
You can expect salary and benefit package competitively placed within the local market, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, 401(k) with company match, tuition reimbursement and more.
