Energy Conservation Engineer

Job Profile

AAPS Salaried
- Facilities Management, Level F

Staff
- Non Union

M&P - AAPS

Energy Conservation Engineer

Energy Conservation Specialists | Energy Conservation and Innovation | Energy & Water Services | Facilities

$9,320.17 - $14,537.58 CAD Monthly

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August 7, 2026

Note:

Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.

September 30, 2029

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff, and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

UBC Energy and Water Services oversees the management of energy and water at the UBC Vancouver Campus, working within a mandate of fiscal efficiency, operational excellence, environmental sustainability, and innovative demonstrations. The role of the Energy Conservation Engineer is to create energy conservation measures for a profound reduction in energy consumption and equivalent greenhouse gas emissions from the UBC Vancouver campus.

The Engineer is an active participant and develops projects that contribute to UBC being a leading research institution in sustainability.

• Designs, develops, implements, monitors, verifies, and reports on Demand Side Management projects. Project Managing each from concept design through to completion.
• Reading and writing sequences of operation and BMS code to troubleshoot and optimize building systems.
• Conducting peer reviews of energy system design, engineering drawings, specifications, and other technical work completed by external contractors.
• Monitoring and evaluating leading-edge sustainable energy technologies.
• Preparing and updating sustainable energy management plans and long‑range energy infrastructure plans.
• Data collection, analysis, modelling, and reporting related to building energy and GHG performance.
• Researching best practices and developing policies, standards, and procedures for sustainable energy system design, maintenance, and operation.
• Providing sustainable energy expertise in major project design/development process, climate plans, green building plans, sustainability reporting, and behavior change programs.

Reports to the Energy Conservation Manager in Energy and Water Services; has direct contact with Building Operations staff, the UBC Sustainability & Engineering, and consults with Campus and Community Planning staff, members of the academy, students, residents, and commercial tenants of UBC. Also has direct contact with consultants, Federal and Provincial Governments, and regulatory authorities.

• Identifies, designs, develops, and implements energy and water conservation projects for buildings across campus, including controls optimization, mechanical and electrical retrofits, and sustainable capital projects.
• Completes feasibility analysis for proposed projects, energy calculations, payback, and NPV calculations for business case evaluation. Prioritizes and manages these projects as required.
• Reading and writing sequences of operation, controls programming language for BMS systems on campus, writing changes to code to improve and commission existing systems' operation.
• Works closely with the Building Management Systems Manager and BMS Technologists to optimize building automation systems effectively, and design controls optimization measures to reduce building energy consumption.
• Works closely with building operations staff and stakeholders to communicate and engage the systems owner on new…