Description

The Staff Sustainability Specialist works with clients and project teams to establish and achieve sustainability goals related to green building design and construction.

• Comply with federal and state high performance and/or sustainable design standards for client projects.

• Assist project design and construction teams in compliance with the "Guiding Principles for Sustainable Federal Buildings" and guide projects through associated third party certification programs.

• Assist project design and construction teams in compliance with commercial green building rating systems, including LEED v4, and guide projects through associated third party certification programs.

• Present cutting-edge trends, data, and sustainability goals to internal and external clients.

• Assist with developing innovative strategies to improve performance and sustainability in building and construction and provide measurable metrics and help implement best demonstrated practices.

• Assist with sustainability initiatives through integrated design to achieve energy savings, protect and conserve water, enhance the indoor environment, reduce environmental impact of materials, and address building resiliency.

• Responsible for compliance with company and site safety policies.

• Responsible for diversity initiatives.

• All other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Science, Engineering, Architecture, Interior Design, or related field.

• Minimum 3 years related professional experience in sustainable design field. Federal projects including DOD and DOE project experience is a plus.

• LEED Accredited Professional with BD C speciality preferred.

• Excellent written & verbal communication skills.

• A strong understanding of environmental/sustainable design practices, regulatory requirements, and current trends in the profession.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to apply intensive and diversified knowledge of principles and practices to broad areas of assignments and devising new approaches to problems encountered.

EEO/Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans

Job Engineering

Primary Location US-MO-Kansas City

Schedule: Full-time

Travel: Yes, 20 % of the Time

Req ID: 213842

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