Building Performance Analyst

Building Performance Analyst

Do more than just build! At dbHMS, we are a collection of doers and thinkers. We combine our passion for engineering with our client's vision to realize successful construction projects in our community and worldwide. Together with our clients, we are dedicated to leaving a legacy of stewardship and innovation through our impact on the built environment. Our staff of talented individuals and unique characters is united in their dedication to deliver high-performance, efficient, and sustainable buildings worldwide. Our DataBased+ Studio team, in our Chicago office, is seeking a Building Performance Analyst. This role will support the engineering of systems for a variety of projects creating designs for all kinds of spaces. Our dynamic work environment provides the perfect opportunity to advance your career while developing and fine-tuning your skills along with offering a supportive office culture, diverse workforce, flexible work schedules, and regular social events. At dbHMS, you will find everything you need for an exciting, challenging, and rewarding career. dbHMS is committed to a diverse workforce and to providing a safe, accessible workplace. Most duties will be performed in an office environment. While dbHMS currently operates with both hybrid and remote-only work policies, this position is a hybrid position with in-office responsibilities. The typical week consists of five, eight-hour shifts. dbHMS offers a competitive benefits package that includes: 401(k), insurance - health, dental, vision and life, paid time off, professional trade organization dues re-imbursement. Waiting period may apply.

Position Overview

In the DataBased+ studio within dbHMS, Building Performance Analysts ask and answer questions that lead to design decisions that improve indoor air quality and thermal comfort, minimize cost, and maximize resource efficiency of buildings, campuses, neighborhoods, or regions. Every new building, major renovation, or community planning project at DataBased+ has a Building Performance Analyst as part of the design team to deliver the best built environment for our clients. The ideal candidate will have the ability to innovate and work with clients and design teams, both internal and external, to identify, implement, and document high-performance building strategies that deliver best in class system performance.

Essential Job Functions

• Analyzing building performance data and identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Thinking innovatively while moving designs forward from concept to design development.
• Applying knowledge of passive and active engineered systems to make recommendations about building components and design elements.
• Learning concepts rapidly, then apply and articulate them appropriately. This includes, but is not limited to: technologies/strategies associated with high-performance building design, ever evolving building codes and standards, and benchmarking tools associated with high-performance building design (e.g. Living Building Challenge, Passivhaus)
• Managing communications effectively across disciplines and simultaneous projects.
• Performing financial analysis and communicating effectively with decision makers.
• Communicating effectively in spoken, written, and visual presentation across disciplines.
• Using industry standard and state of the art software tools to analyze the resource use of engineered building systems and their components at all scales from the system level up through and including the regional grid level and accurately predict their impact on human health and environmental sustainability.
• Reading and understanding construction documents, floor plans, specifications, and details.
• Surveying existing buildings and identifying systems and components.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Energy, Computational Analysis, or similar.
• EIT on PE track (or willing to obtain within 2 years).
• Experience in one of the following building performance analysis software: Open Studio/Energy Plus, Grasshopper plug-in and associated programs, DesignBuilder, TRNSYS, TRACE 3-D, 700, IES.
• Experience in Revit, BIM360, or similar building information modeling software.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Programs.

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• ASHRAE Building Energy Modeling Professional certification,
• ASHRAE High-Performance Building Design Professional certification.
• Computational Fluid Dynamics modeling,
• Carbon modeling,
• Resilience analysis.

Personal Qualities and Other Skills/Abilities

• Strong focus on teamwork,
• Takes pride in one's work and cares about the outcomes,
• Excellent work ethic,
• Self-motivated,
• Desire to love what you do,
• Ability to give and receive feedback in a positive manner,
• Ability to provide a quality professional product within agreed-upon timelines,
• Passionate about performing analysis to optimize buildings and building systems and improve the built environment,
• Ability to communicate novel or complex concepts and related facts in a clear, concise, organized, and convincing manner in any format (e.g. written, oral, presentation),
• Well-developed interpersonal skills, maturity, credibility, confidence and integrity,
• Strong critical and innovative thinking skills,
• Strong time-management skills and experience managing multiple priorities at once.