About This Role The Senior Materials Specialist position is responsible for leading complex projects and managing, performing, and delivering technical, materials-focused analysis and strategic consulting to support clients to shape and achieve materials goals related to circularity, embodied carbon, heath, and equity. This position is responsible for leading and mentoring other staff, ensuring work quality through QA/QC, and developing long-term relationships with clients. The role involves working on projects both at the building and portfolio scale to develop tailored approaches for clients to drive sustainable procurement decisions within their organization.
Essential Duties for This Role - Review and interpret design drawings, design models (unique to embodied carbon), specifications, and submittals.
- Provide design review to confirm compliance with owner's project requirements, and other client and project goals.
- Perform and oversee technical analysis, such as healthy and sustainable materials optimization, scoring, etc.
- Strategize and help to structure workstreams and tasks for new or emerging service areas and analyses.
- Interact with clients during all project phases. Document and communicate discussions and resolutions with project team members to align deliverables to the project scope.
- Guide clients through programmatic arcs, identify where clients are in their materials programs and consult at the appropriate level to support the maturation of their programs.
- Manages client material standards with consistency and trust, navigating complex and potentially sensitive situations.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities - Manage and deliver technical work.
- Understanding of materials attributes and considerations.
- Knowledge and competency reading drawings and specifications, product documentation (HPDs, EPDs, product certifications, etc)
- Knowledge and competency using relevant software to support one or more of WBLCA, EC3, embodied carbon.
- Apply sound and diverse knowledge of materials principles and practices to a broad array of assignments.
- Perform work requiring independent judgement in evaluation, selection, and adaptation/modification of standard approach.
- Understand the materials landscape to leverage industry resources to independently solve problems encountere
- Excellence in project delivery has consistently proven to bring repeat and expanding services with clients.
- Involved in pitching services to new or prospective clients.
- Has converted or secured new client scopes, even if relatively small.
Grade Responsibilities - 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 capabilities to deliver projects within scope, on budget, on schedule, and in the Brightworks way.
- Oversee, guide, and QA/QC the delivery of technical analyses, presentations, communications and deliverables to clients within scope, on budget, on schedule.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships based on expertise, competence, openness, initiative, and trust with existing and prospective clients, practice area leaders, and influencers within the industry.
- Maintain control of the project financials and contracting, complete invoicing, timesheet, and expense approvals per firm timelines. Proactively engage the finance team to address complex issues and meet common goals.
- Provide input to senior staff to help win projects and meet the company's profitability criteria.
- Support the firm's practice development through acquiring technical expertise, collaborating on firm innovations, and matching industry leadership in sustainability with client needs.
- Foster honest, productive communications throughout the entire firm to support project delivery, business development, and operations.
Education & Experience - Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, e.g., engineering, architecture, construction management, environmental science, sustainability, planning, or related disciplines. Relevant coursework or internships in sustainability, green building, or project management.
- 6+ years of related experience, training or equivalent combination of education and experience working in a complementary field or sustainability project management.
Eligibility: At this time, we are only considering candidates who are eligible to work in the United States without the need for company sponsorship now or in the future.
Travel Requirements: This position may require infrequent travel for up to 5% of the position, including overnight or multiple days.
Job Details Classification: Full-time, Exempt
Direct Reports: This position may directly supervise a small team. This position may also mentor or oversee other team members to complete discrete tasks or perform roles on projects.
Location: This position is targeted for our New York office but may be filled in any Brightworks office location in the US (Seattle, Portland, Oakland, Los Angeles, New York). Please indicate your preferred office location(s) in your application and in your cover letter.
Brightworks offers hybrid work schedules.
This position is not eligible to be fully remote.
Compensation: Salary ranges vary based on geographic market.
The annual salary range for this role in New York or Oakland is $110,250 - $130,750. Los Angeles or Oakland $101,430 - $120,290. Portland, OR $92,610 - $109,830
Starting pay offered may vary depending on geographic region, external market value, internal pay equity, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. Starting salary offers will typically be made in the bottom half of the listed range. In compliance with Equal Pay for Equal Work Acts, a potential new employee's salary history will not be used in compensation decisions.
Visa Sponsorship: This position is not eligible for sponsorship.
