Senior Manager - Building Codes (Remote - US)

Interested in joining a growing company where you will work with talented colleagues, enhance a supportive and energetic culture, and be part of the climate solution? At Energy Solutions, we focus on the big impacts. And we believe that market-based programs can be a powerful force to deliver large-scale energy, carbon, and water-use savings. Since 1995, we’ve harnessed that power to offer proven, performance-based solutions for our utility, government, and institutional customers.

The Policy & Ratings team is seeking a Senior Manager for our Building Codes practice area.  The person selected to fill this position shall have expertise in building code development and implementation, and the policy and technical background to provide  leadership to teams that aim to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the built environment. 

 Responsibilities include but are not limited to: 

• Contribute to a team that dedicated to reducing GHG emissions from the built environment, including offering suggestions on strategy. 
• Aid in the development of stretch and base energy codes and building performance standards that further state and local decarbonization goals. 
• Collaborate with colleagues to develop and implement strategies to successfully revise building codes including input on code change recommendations, technical analyses, compliance hurdles, and stakeholder engagement. 
• Author, review, and provide quality assurance for code change proposals; prioritizing concepts, writing code language and analyzing the savings, costs, and other impacts of energy efficient and low carbon technologies. 
• Offer and support creative approaches to expand the P&R portfolio to include energy code compliance and deployment of building performance standards. 
• Facilitate collaboration across internal and external teams with the goal of achieving shared goals effectively. 
• Communicate technical information to clients, stakeholders, and policy decision makers (e.g., staff from federal/state/local agencies) and provide feedback and guidance to colleagues in effective communication. 
• Guide team in efforts to overcome technical and management challenges. 
• Participate in code development proceedings (e.g., IECC, ASHRAE 90.1, ASHRAE 189.1, Title 24, Part 6, state amendments to national model codes), leveraging relationships to work effectively with all stakeholders. 
• Develop and deliver presentations on technical topics to a variety of audiences, including clients, government agency decision makers, engineers, and other stakeholders.  
• Contribute to proposals and business development efforts. 

Minimum Qualifications:  

• A bachelor's degree in an energy-related discipline, including environmental, electrical or mechanical engineering, public policy or economics degree
• 10 years of related experience or 8 years of experience and a graduate degree in an energy-related or policy-related discipline including: public policy, economics, architecture or engineering (environmental, electrical, energy, chemical, or mechanical).  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including a demonstrated ability to write and review reports, technical papers, and provide technical presentations to knowledgeable audiences.  
• Comfortable advising on strategic and tactical decisions. 
• Willingness to conduct occasional business travel. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• A minimum 12 years of work experience (graduate school years applicable), including a minimum of 5 years of experience related to developing / revising/advocating for building energy codes. 
• Familiarity with ASHRAE Standard 90.1, ASHRAE Standard 189.1, the International Energy Conservation Code, California Energy Code (Title 24), model stretch codes (e.g., NYStretch, CALGreen), or Building Performance Standards.<