Olson Kundig is a design practice founded on the ideas that buildings can serve as a bridge between nature, culture and people, and that inspiring surroundings have a positive effect on people’s lives. The firm’s work can be found across the globe, with projects as wide-ranging as huts to high rises, homes-often for art collectors-to academic, cultural and civic projects, museums and exhibition design, places of worship, creative production, urban design, and interior design
Currently, we are seeking a Building Performance Analyst who can help contribute to the overall excellence of work coming from Olson Kundig.
As a member of the Building Performance team, the Building Performance Analyst performs building simulations and building performance studies on a range of projects across the firm.
Primary Responsibilities
- Performs building simulations to support design decisions on projects.
- Performs energy, daylight, and solar radiation studies in the early schematic design phase to determine appropriate shading and orientation for projects.
- May produce embodied carbon simulations for project teams.
- Partners with the Director of Building Performance to develop strategies to achieve net zero energy and carbon for projects teams.
- Produces written summary reports of completed studies to be shared with project teams.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Exhibits a high attention to detail and takes responsibility for delivering accurate, high-quality work.
- Demonstrates a strong sense of urgency and effectively prioritizes multiple activities with little guidance in a fast-paced, creative and dynamic work environment.
- Demonstrates the ability to communicate technical ideas effectively – visually and verbally.
- Demonstrates a growth mindset and an aptitude for presenting opportunities for process improvement and technology solutions, including learning new software and systems.
- Demonstrates effective problem-solving skills, including the ability to present solutions and recommendations for non-standard situations.
Desired Qualifications & Experience
- A professional degree in building science, engineering, or architecture.
- A minimum of three years’ professional experience performing building energy analysis, thermal modeling, daylight simulation or related tasks.
- Demonstrated experience with early building energy simulation utilizing either eQUEST, EnergyPlus or an equivalent software.
- Demonstrated experience of photometric modeling daylight performance to support design decisions.
- Demonstrated competency with Microsoft Office Suite, with a strong proficiency in Excel.
- Demonstrated proficiency with Rhino and Grasshopper.
- Demonstrated experience with Adobe Creative Cloud software.
Desired additional Qualifications
- Demonstrated grasshopper plugin experience such as DIVA, Climate Studio, Ladybug and Honeybee.
- Experience with lifecycle assessment tools like EC3 and Tally.
- Experience with Autodesk Revit
- Experience with mechanical systems.
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What can you expect from us?
- A creative work environment and colleagues who are collaborative, creative, and challenging
- Opportunity to grow professionally with excellent projects
- Check our culture page to learn about life at Olson Kundig
In addition to a dynamic and creative culture, Olson Kundig provides a generous benefits package that includes 16 days of paid time off, paid holidays, health plan, 401k match, bonuses, profit-sharing plans for qualified positions, a monthly travel subsidy for public transportation, and more.
As a firm, we are committed to pay practices that are fair, competitive, and reflect internal pay equity. At the time of posting this job, the hiring range for this position in Seattle is between $68,000 and $85,000 annually. Final salary decisions are made based upon the extent and relatedness of the candidate’s education and experience and considering internal equity and external market factors.