Senior Specialist Sustainability

Corgan•Los Angeles, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

At Corgan, we are passionate about great design and great people. We create opportunities for personal and professional growth by sharpening skills, leveraging technology, and encouraging communication. Corgan is seeking a Senior Sustainable Design Analyst to join its dynamic and expanding ECHO team of sustainable design experts. This role will lead, manage, and support a wide array of projects across various sectors including aviation, data centers, education, and interiors. You will contribute to and manage several concurrent projects, supporting the design team on topics such as design and assessment of various projects, bespoke sustainability frameworks, environmental and energy analytics, health and well-being design strategies, building physics and material science, third-party certifications, GHG emission analysis, and coordination of sustainability assessments and benchmarking of building projects. Additionally, you will work on projects focused on the development of climate impact mitigation and resilience strategies. This role challenges you to work across interdisciplinary teams with a diverse range of client types, requiring a strong combination of technical, strategic, and management thinking, as well as effective communication skills across various mediums. Responsibilities include contributing to the design of energy/water/waste systems, leading sustainability assessment workshops, sourcing energy & resource efficiency ideas, identifying and analyzing alternatives, quantifying sustainability impacts using life-cycle analysis and other metrics, developing spreadsheet or coding-based analyses, preparing written summaries for clients, presenting findings to technical and non-technical audiences, attending client meetings, and assisting with or leading proposals. The breadth of responsibility will be determined by your experience and capability.

Requirements

Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, Energy, Environmental Science, Planning, Urban Design, Architecture, Engineering or a closely related field.
Have 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a consistent track record.
Hold a LEED, WELL, AIA, PE, CEM or similar accreditation.
Building design experience, including identification, analysis and selection of appropriate integrated strategies.
In-depth knowledge of specific building or campus scale sustainability topics such as indoor environments, healthy materials, embodied energy, waste management, energy analytics amongst others.
Sustainability assessment of projects in the built environment using at least one of the following frameworks: LEED, WELL, ENVISION, and/or other GBCI rating systems.
Cost & benefit analysis over a project life cycle to support decision-making.
Assessment and estimation of energy & resource efficiency potential.
Sustainability codes and standards development and implementation.
Integrated systems design: energy, transportation, water, waste, materials.
Outstanding leadership and communication skills, including writing, presenting, and workshop leading.
Outstanding skills in integrated analytical problem solving.
Superior ability in the use of the full MS Office suite, specialized design and presentation software.
Strong understanding of energy, water, waste and resource technologies.
Strong familiarity with triple bottom line cost-effectiveness thinking and analysis.
Strong knowledge of policy and economic issues related to climate change.
Strong multi-tasking and project management skills.

Nice To Haves

A Master’s degree in a similar field is preferred.
Climate change related policy and services action development – including GHG mitigation and climate adaptation.
Performance design strategies for complicated building types such as aviation and data centers.
Portfolio, campus and city scale sustainability and resiliency frameworks.

Responsibilities

Lead, manage, and support a wide array of projects ranging from aviation, data centers, education, interiors and others.
Contribute to and manage several concurrent projects supporting the design team on topics including but not limited to: design and assessment of various projects; bespoke sustainability frameworks; environmental and energy analytics; health and well-being design strategies; building physics and material science; third party certifications; GHG emission analysis; coordination of sustainability assessments and benchmarking of building projects.
Work on projects which focus on the development of climate impact mitigation and resilience strategies.
Contribute to the design of energy/water/waste systems.
Lead sustainability assessment workshops.
Source energy & resource efficiency ideas.
Identify and analyze alternatives.
Quantify sustainability impacts using life-cycle analysis and other metrics.
Develop spreadsheet or coding-based analyses.
Prepare written summaries of work for clients.
Present on process and findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
Attend client meetings.
Assist with or lead proposals.
Experience with project budgeting, cost tracking, and interdisciplinary team management.
Proposal development and management.