Senior Sustainable and Healthy Buildings Consultant

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One of the first sustainability consulting firms in the United States, Brightworks Sustainability has enjoyed a position of leadership and innovation in sustainability since its founding in 2001. We help our clients establish and implement operational sustainability programs that reduce their environmental footprints, advance their sustainability journeys, and increase their operational performance.

Brightworks’ creative and multi-disciplinary staff offer expertise in the following areas:

• Sustainable and Healthy Buildings
• Sustainable and Healthy Materials
• Energy Analysis and Optimization
• Building Performance, Operations, and Maintenance
• Corporate Sustainability and ESG Programs

Our major clients include leading technology firms, higher education institutions, life science organizations, and municipal entities. We provide our clients with unique solutions for the challenges they face meeting sustainability, innovation and community impact goals. unique to their organizations.

Our team members routinely cite the following aspects of their experience at Brightworks as most valuable to them:

• Making a difference
• High degree of flexibility
• Learning and growth
• Great clients and projects
• Recognition for performance
• Competitive compensation

You will be treated as an important strategic contributor, and you will be expected to make important contributions to the business while growing professionally, intellectually, personally, socially, and financially.

A certified B Corp since 2010, Brightworks Sustainability is committed to benefiting society while serving its customers. Brightworks has received B Corp’s "Best for the Environment" and "Best for Workers" honors.

Brightworks Sustainability is Tier 2 Leading Living Wage Certified in the United States. Our salaries are competitive and commensurate with experience. Additionally, we provide generous employee benefits.

We are committed to an inclusive workplace that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We welcome application from candidates of all backgrounds and identities and are an equal opportunity employer under the Equality Act 2010.

The Senior Sustainable and Healthy Buildings Consultant plays a critical role in advancing sustainability initiatives, often managing complex projects or a portfolio of projects within a single account, leading efforts to pursue certifications that validate and enhance building performance. This role ensures the seamless integration of sustainability attributes across the project, while delivering scope on budget and on schedule. The Consultant may be required to coordinate the work of other stakeholders, both internal and external.

Senior Consultants lead a team of people, provide guidance, technical expertise, and mentorship, and develop long-term relationships with clients.

• Manage complex green building certification workflows, coordinate internal and external team members to deliver.
• Manage projects from start to finish (including contracts, invoicing, and timesheet approvals), overseeing the work of junior team members, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders on innovative solutions.
• Perform analyses to evaluate project performance (e.g., indoor water use) against third-party standard sustainability metrics and perform QA/QC reviews of analyses conducted by team members.
• Design and assign work for others. Provide timely, constructive feedback. Support the growth of direct reports towards independence. Allow mistakes without allowing failures.
• Contribute to practice-level organization and staff resourcing.
• Lead complex client-facing projects and collaborate with senior staff to clarify high-level client goals, staffing resources, project budget, and expected deliverables.
• Supervise, oversee and mentor internal team members so that they develop the knowledge, skills, and…