Energy and Incentive Specialist

Modern Niagara is seeking an Energy and Incentive Specialist for their Vaughan or Ottawa office. The role involves supporting financial incentive tools and projects related to energy efficiency and decarbonization. Candidates should have strong communication skills, a process-oriented mindset, and experience managing energy-saving financial incentive applications. The company values safety, teamwork, and has received multiple awards for its health and safety culture.
Modern Niagara helps building owners, managers, and general contractors meet the mechanical, electrical, integrated building technology, and building services needs of their buildings across Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Southwestern Ontario, and Ottawa. We also develop custom, turnkey solutions to help reach the desired outcomes. We are committed to having a positive and meaningful impact on Canada’s infrastructure and on the communities where we live, learn, work, and heal.

WE BUILD FOR LIFE.

We value passion, initiative, determination, professionalism, and teamwork and we are committed to ensuring that our teams have everything they need to succeed. Health and safety are embedded in everything we do and, as a result, our award-winning safety culture has a record that’s well above industry standards.

At Modern Niagara, you will work alongside values-driven, safety-conscious, and high-impact teams in a fast-paced, innovative, and collaborative environment. Here, your knowledge, skills, and excellent service will help ensure that the buildings that make up Canada’s infrastructure fulfill the needs they were set out to meet.

Modern Niagara is one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies and is a recipient of SMACNA‘s Safety Excellence Award Program (SSEAP) – Canada and the Canadian Occupational Safety (COS) Magazine’s Gold Winner for Canada’s Safest Employers Award in the Building and Construction category and Excellence Winner for Canada’s Best Health + Safety Culture Award as well as Canada’s Best Health + Safety Leader Award.

We are currently seeking an Energy and Incentive Specialist to join our Energy Solutions team and operate out of our Vaughan or Ottawa office.

This position is responsible for executing daily activities that support financial incentive tools, projects, processes, and customer facing team members at Modern Niagara. Through diligent consistency this role will provide financial value to our customers.

To be successful in this role, the candidate must:

Have a genuine interest in energy efficiency and decarbonization of existing buildings

Have exceptional listening and communication skills

Have an affinity for process and routine, understanding that small actions done consistently set our customer facing team members up for success

Understand the fundamentals of waterfall-based project management

Be naturally inquisitive

Be motivated to help customer facing team members succeed through attention to detail

Have experience managing energy-saving financial incentive applications through to completion including analysis and savings calculations for custom and prescriptive programs.

Overview of Responsibilities:

Facilitate and process energy incentive requests from across organization including:

Track incoming requests through various communication channels

Ensure 1-hours response time confirming receipt of request and ETA for delivery of requested incentive information

Calculating estimated energy savings and eligible financial incentives

Managing applications process with various organization offering incentive programs

Internally collaboration and communicate to ensure all requirements are met

Leading documentation gathering, verifying, and uploading to successfully secure incentive for either Modern Niagara or our client

Follow-up and close-out of incentive request within centralized tracking system

Manage incentive supported projects with Energy Solutions team including:

Scheduling and hosting project handover meetings

Collecting and organizing documentation relevant to projects

Opening jobs in project management systems

Preparing schedules and budgets collaboration with Energy Solutions Operations team

Managing costs and internal departmental resources to successfully deliver projects, including working with Finance, Operations, and Engineering teams.

Lead client-facing project meetings to set and manage expectations

Qualifications and Experience:

Mechanical or Electrical Engineering post-secondary graduate or related combination of education and experience

Understanding of project management fundamentals

High performing, driven individual that is self motivated

Strong organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills

Resourceful, problem-solver that is energetic and able to manage multiple prioritize

Nice to haves but not required include:

Planned or successful completion of CEM designation

Planned or successful completion of CMVP

Experience within the construction industry, specifically energy and decarbonization retrofit projects

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

At Modern Niagara, we recognize the value of fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization and are committed to eliminating barriers faced by members of equity-seeking groups (women, Indigenous, Black, racialized, LGTBQ2S+, people with disabilities, and new immigrants) in the construction industry. Our DEI vision is to build an organization where everyone has access to the same opportunities, experience equitable outcomes, and can thrive and reach their full potential.

We value the diversity of the people we hire and serve. Modern Niagara is an equal opportunity employer. If you require accommodation during the recruitment process, please advise us so that suitable accommodations can be made. We can be reached at careers@modernniagara.com.