Senior Green Building Consultant

Paladino & Company is an internationally recognized green building consulting firm leading the field of sustainable design and construction. Our interdisciplinary team of architects, engineers, and analysts is dedicated to a sustainable future. Founded in 1994 and based in Seattle we have a solid track record of producing outstanding and award-winning work on green building capital projects, development programs, and professional training. 

 

We have expanded our office, team, and service offerings and are currently hiring for all positions. We are seeking experienced professionals in the architectural, engineering, and allied fields who can apply their multi-disciplinary skills to green building consulting opportunities.

Position Overview
We are seeking a senior professional in the architectural engineering field that can apply his or her technical and management skills to green building consulting opportunities. This talented leader directs his or her consulting services team on projects including master plans, capital facilities, and training and research programs. This position reports to the company's President in our Seattle office. 

 

What We Need
The primary focus of this position is to lead practice area development of consulting services to major clients of the firm and development of a quality entrepreneurial staff. A secondary objective is the development and application of staff resource management systems leading to outstanding client satisfaction, optimized staff utilization, increased capacity, and achievement of the firm's financial goals. This requires the candidate to be extremely knowledgeable with the green building industry, exhibit a business focus, possess strong motivational interpersonal skills, and be exceptionally adept with project management systems and processes.

The successful candidate can effectively manage multiple practice areas, evaluating the needs and boundaries of market sectors, modeling scenarios and creating new business offerings. The position also provides quality control of outgoing proposals and work product, ensuring brand integrity and client fulfillment and satisfaction.

As member of the management team, mentoring is a key responsibility of the position, contributing to the overall professional development of the firm. This person oversees junior staff by managing select business objectives and success factors. Internally, this person supervises junior staff by providing management feedback, technical advice and performance evaluation. Externally, this person shall actively engage business partners and clients to create new consulting opportunities and some travel is expected.

What You Offer

• A degree in architecture, engineering, or allied field.  
• LEED Accredited Professional  
• 15+ years professional experience, with 8 + years of professional registration with clear experience in green building and team management.  
• Excellent knowledge of high performance building design and construction parameters and LEED Rating Systems, with direct experience in three or more of the following areas:  
  • Site: Landscape and site design, building and landscape integration, landscape materials - experience with master plans and GIS software a plus. 
  • Water: Stormwater management and treatment systems, rain harvest systems, biological treatment systems, water balance modeling. 
  • Energy: Building science, concept design for active and passive systems, envelope expertise, ventilation effectiveness, creating sequences of operation for hybrid systems, modeling skills a plus. 
  • Materials: Specifications, recycled and non-toxic content, alternative building materials and manufacturing processes, code compliance. 
  • IEQ: Space planning, daylighting, ergonomics, air quality, green materials, human ecology. 
  • Economics: Financial measures, first costs, life-cycle costs and return on investment; and monitoring, verification and evaluation of building performance. 
• 8+ years project management experience in proposal generation, leading project teams, providing client service, and managing to budgets  
• Demonstrated business development, team building and leadership abilities  
• Ability to prepare and deliver oral presentations articulating a leadership position  
• Expert user of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Acrobat, PageMaker  
• A sense of humor and a knack for innovation, problem solving and negotiating positive results

Salary Range: low-sixties to mid-seventies, depending on experience
Closing Date: open until filled

Apply For This Position
Send email a letter of interest and resume.