Sr. Sustainable Design Engineer

HKS is hiring a Sr. Sustainable Design Engineer in Atlanta, GA, responsible for managing engineering analyses for sustainability in building design. Key tasks include leading energy simulations, conducting comfort studies, mentoring staff, and supporting sustainability initiatives. The role emphasizes quality, innovation, and growth while overseeing life cycle analyses and contributing to research and publications.
HKS is hiring a Sr. Sustainable Design Engineer in Atlanta, GA, to manage engineering analyses for sustainability in building design. Responsibilities include leading energy simulations, minimizing energy consumption, conducting comfort studies, and mentoring staff. The role involves supporting design performance and sustainability initiatives, overseeing life cycle analyses, and contributing to research and publications. The position emphasizes the firm's values of quality, innovation, and growth.
Overview:
HKS is seeking an experienced Sr. Sustainable Design Engineer to join our firm. Manages and leads engineering analysis and models for sustainability. Manages the firm's resources (people, processes and tools) and assignments with proficiency, fluency and aptitude. Teaches and mentors staff and effectively embodies and expresses the firm's values and mission.

Responsibilities:

Project:

• Manages the whole-building dynamic thermal and energy building simulation models for various building types and scales, including advanced mechanical systems evaluations, architectural response to enhancing day lighting, lighting control systems and detailed thermal and moisture response of building façade components

• Manages the detailed engineering analysis for the purpose of minimizing energy consumption and related greenhouse gas emissions related to a building's architectural design, construction and operation

• Manages the comfort studies, life cycle costs analysis, energy simulation, daylight simulations, solar shading analysis and renewable energy evaluation to provide analysis-based recommendations that inform design and operational decisions made by architects, engineers, cont actors and operators

• Supports Design Green team and Enterprise leadership to expand and further integrate design performance, building energy modeling and building operation modeling for all projects across the firm, including informing design decisions by predicting a building's performance with respect to energy efficiency, passive and active design strategies, building massing, daylight availability, glare control, shading analysis, thermal comfort, natural ventilation, mechanical systems alternatives, loads analysis, renewable energy systems integration and similar design factors/elements throughout the project's life cycle

• Confidently predicts a building's anticipated energy use and corresponding energy savings, as compared to a standard baseline by applying whole-building energy simulation and verify performance through industry standard calibration procedures for post-occupancy evaluations

• Oversees the Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) and Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) for design alternatives with a keen understanding of appropriate economic analysis parameters relevant to the project

• Leds and/or assists design teams to promote integrative sustainable strategies and leverage complex data sets to support design decisions and research

• Leds and/or assists with specialized project and enterprise research activities including but not limited to energy, environmental, carbon and general sustainability issues

• Authors professional publications/journals (prime investigator) and identifies areas of opportunity (innovation) to increase energy efficiency by utilizing new or existing technologies, provide creative market transformation ideas, and/or innovative implementation strategies

• Advances enterprise level Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) efforts such as the AIA 2030 Commitment and the United Nations Global Compact

• Oversees technical reports and presentation materials

• Participates in team meetings to discuss project issues, technical issues and coordination with other disciplines

Cultural:

• Endorses the firm's cultural values, including a commitment to quality, innovation, learning and growth

• Supports firm's global presence and actively engages perspectives from HKS international offices

• Manages the content and facilitates enterprise wide internal training, education and knowledge sharing regarding building sciences fundamentals and energy analysis software applications

• Facilitates team's self-evaluation to…