Entry Level Building Performance Analyst

Entry Level 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 Data Based+ Studio team, in our Chicago office, is seeking an Entry Level 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.

Position Overview In the Data Based+ 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 Data Based+ has a Building Performance Analyst as part of the design team to delivering 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 The role requires a self-starter able to work independently both in a group environment and in the field. The Building Performance Analyst will ensure the building projects that come through the firm and studio will maximize the positive, human-centered outcomes by employing sound scientific principles and: analyzing building performance data and identify 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 communicate 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 identify systems and components.

Requirements Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Energy,…