Early Career Sustainability Consultant

Who We Are

At WSP, we are driven by inspiring future-ready pioneers to innovate. We’re looking to grow our teams with people who are ready to collaborate in building communities and expanding our skylines. To do this, we hire candidates of all experiences, skillsets, backgrounds and walks of life. We actively foster a work environment and culture where inclusion and diversity is part of our fundamental structure. This is delivered behaviorally, through our policies, trainings, local partnerships with professional diverse organizations, internal networks and most importantly with the support and sponsorship of our leaders who help drive our commitment to an inclusive, diverse, welcoming and equitable work environment. Anything is within our reach and yours as a WSP employee. Come join us and help shape the future!

This Opportunity

WSP, an award winning and innovative multi-disciplinary engineering consulting firm, is looking for a Assistant Sustainability Consultant for the Built Ecology team in Los Angeles, CA. Our team works closely with organizations, owners, developers, architects, and tenants from around the world on large, complex projects with a focus on sustainability, user experience, and operational efficiency in the built environment.

Built Ecology is WSP’s national Built Environment Sustainability practice, providing a broad range of services including sustainability strategy development, goal setting and workshop facilitation, high-performance design and analysis, building certifications, neighborhood-scale solutions, Net Zero training and education, and performance verification. We work across a wide range of project types and scales, from horizontal planning and district infrastructure to vertical design and construction, to ongoing performance and operations. Built Ecology has been directly responsible for driving many leading projects across the globe, including LEED Platinum buildings, Living Building Challenge and WELL projects, Net Zero energy and water projects, EcoDistricts, corporate programs, and improvements for large building portfolios. Our solutions are typically innovative, integrated, data-driven, and practical.

Our team brings a structured approach while also identifying unique opportunities on each project. We influence strategic decisions to achieve sustainable outcomes in buildings, neighborhoods, and organizations.

Ideal candidates will exhibit the following characteristics:

• Strong verbal, written, and graphic communication
• Driven to create solutions that deliver ambitious high-performance design outcomes
• Passionate about creating a sustainable, healthy, resilient, and equitable built environment
• Background in sustainability, building design, and high-performance design analytics

Your Impact

• Support continued improvement of team resources and processes related to healthy buildings
• Assist other team members on energy, carbon and healthy analysis
• Creating frameworks and guidelines for healthy buildings
• Individual and team tasks within ongoing projects including LEED, WELL, RESET, and LBC Certifications
• Write reports detailing analysis activities and design advice

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Knowledge of the building design and construction process, ability to read and interpret architectural and engineering drawings
• 0+ years of professional experience in sustainability consulting and green building certifications
• Familiarity with different healthy building aspects, including but not limited to air and water quality, thermal comfort, biophilic design and circadian lighting
• Knowledge of sustainable and healthy building services
• Self-starter, able to work independently as well as multi-task
• Knowledge of third-party green building rating systems (LEED, WELL, RESET, Passive House, LBC or related)
• Ability to work efficiently in a team environment
• Excellent verbal communication and writing skills
• Attention to detail and highly organized
• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, engineering, building science, built environment, and/or sustainability
• Ability to understand and coordinate energy, daylight, comfort, and other modeling deliverables

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience providing trainings and presentations on sustainability, green building, healthy buildings, and resilient design.
• Knowledge of evidence based and performance-based design practices
• Experience working on projects pursuing building rating systems (LEED or WELL)
• Computational Design Skills with several Grasshopper plugins for climate, energy and daylight analysis
• WELL Accredited Professional and/or LEED Green Associate, Accredited Professional

Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

Compensation and Benefits:
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

Expected Salary: $53,200 - $93,000

WSP USA is providing the compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.

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Additional Requirements

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

Additional Details

• Employee Type: Full
• Job Status: New Graduate
• All locations: US-CA-Los Angeles
• Travel Required: N/A - No travel required
• Primary Location: CA HSR LOS ANGELES - S GRAND

About WSP

WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper. www.wsp.com

WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.

The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.