kW Engineering | Sustainable Buildings & Energy Efficiency Consulting

Careers

At kW Engineering, we’re not just a leading energy consulting firm; we are a community of passionate professionals dedicated to making a difference.

Recipe For Success

We believe that the most successful and fulfilling careers are built at the intersection of three key elements: passion, expertise, and customer need. By nurturing our team’s individual passions, leveraging their unique skills, and aligning with the needs of our customers, we create an environment where innovation thrives, and impactful solutions emerge.

Thriving Talent, Inclusive Culture

Our culture is one of collaboration and camaraderie, where engineers and industry professionals come together to tackle challenges and celebrate successes. We’re united by a shared enthusiasm for sustainability, finding personal satisfaction and professional growth in applying our skills to save energy and water in buildings. Whether it’s implementing electrification strategies or championing smart building solutions, we are driven by a common mission: to engineer sustainable energy solutions for a decarbonized world.

Equal Opportunity Employer

In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals at all our locations, employment decisions at kW Engineering will be based on merit, qualifications, and abilities.

kW Engineering does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, marital status, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, military service membership, Acquired-Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), AIDS-Related Complex (ARC), or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Our equal employment opportunity policy governs all aspects of employment, including selection, job assignment, compensation, discipline, termination, and access to benefits and training.

Current Openings

With a team of over 70, we continue to grow with individuals who not only meet our high standards but also share our passion and dedication to a sustainable energy future. 

Location: New York City

kW Engineering is a leading consulting engineering firm dedicated to helping our customers reduce energy and water consumption at their facilities. We are driven to find creative, cost-effective solutions that not only meet our customers’ financial goals but improve overall health and reliability of the buildings. With our deep understanding of energy-using systems and our sophisticated analysis techniques at hand, we stand by our recommendations and are excited to help see them through to completion. We treat every project as an opportunity to showcase our expertise, further refine our craft, and strengthen our reputation by delivering results.

At kW we’re proud of our passionate, creative, fun and diverse team, and it is important to us that we continue to find new team members that share the values that make our company an awesome place to work.

We’re looking for these qualities in this position:

  • Technical Skills – someone with solid understanding of engineering principles and advanced analytical skills expected of bachelor-level engineering degree or above. Familiarity with major building HVAC equipment/lighting/controls technologies.
  • Customer service – someone who can interact professionally with clients and on-site staff.
  • Self-Direction – someone who can manage his/her own time.
  • Shares our core values: Integrity, Judgment, Community, Communication, Creativity, Impact, Curiosity, Passion

What you’ll do:

  • Save energy and operating costs at client facilities by applying your technical skills in commercial and industrial buildings.
  • Provide technical assistance to utilities and their customers to ensure that energy saving impacts are real, and that the savings are on solid technical grounds.
  • Work at our customer sites conducting energy assessments, inspections, measurement and verification of energy and demand savings.
  • Learn from our experienced team of over 40 engineers specializing in commercial and industrial energy efficiency

If you’re looking for a new opportunity to work with others that share your passion, then don’t hesitate – get in touch with us, we’d love to get to know you.

Salary range: $84,000 – 105,000 

Final salary offered is based on location, skills and expertise, experience, and other relevant factors.

 

Location: New York City

As the Engineering Manager for kW Engineering’s New York office, you’ll provide full managerial support of our staff. Your core duties involve overseeing project deliverables, ensuring the fulfillment of contract targets, and placing a strong emphasis on delivering outstanding customer service. You’ll also be responsible for managing and coordinating a team of engineers tasked with energy analysis and technical deliverables.

Our ideal candidate will be responsive to time-sensitive and deadline-driven efforts, flexible in meeting multiple priorities, and able to thrive in a fast-paced environment. This position demands a willingness to quickly learn the energy engineering industry, excellent communication skills, attention to detail, and creativity.

Key Responsibilities

Project Management

  • Serve as a Manager to deliver work focused on the commercial and multifamily sectors. Responsible for overseeing all aspects of performance, which includes financial management, contract deliverables, strategic planning, quality assurance, and operational effectiveness.
  • Serve as the primary point of contact to our clients.
  • Interface directly with clients and help build and maintain relationships.
  • Identify and develop new opportunities, collaborate on proposals and develop new business with new and existing clients.
  • Manage workload of project engineering teams to conduct site visits, engineering analysis and reports.
  • Maintain client project database.
  • Lead, manager, inspire and mentor staff.

Perform other duties as needed.

What you Need

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Marketing or related field preferred or equivalent education/work experience.
  • 5+ years of experience with utility project management or working in the industry.
  • Firm understanding of procurement best practices and contract administration.
  • Proficient in developing/or implementing data collection, tracking, and reporting processes (i.e. Customer relationship management (CRM) efforts.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail.
  • Ability to work in a team and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite. Knowledge of creating and managing styles in Word preferred.
  • Skilled in persistent follow-up to ensure tasks are completed on time.
  • Ability to work independently, prioritize tasks, and meet tight deadlines.
  • Open to learning and embracing new challenges.
  • Knowledge of energy engineering, M&V, sustainable practices, A&E, construction industry terminology is a plus.

Salary range: $120,000 – 155,000

Final salary offered is based on location, skills and expertise, experience, and other relevant factors.

Location: Oakland

As part of our growing decarbonization services your expertise will engage with design teams and facility operations teams to inform decision making that aligns with clients’ energy efficiency and carbon reduction goals. You will provide consulting on whole building performance from early conceptual design through construction and beyond. You will work collaboratively with the design team and a team of engineers to develop physics-based energy models for large commercial buildings, hospitals, higher-education, k-12 and other non-industrial facilities with the intent to understand their existing energy use and identify ways to help them reduce their energy use and associated carbon footprint. The successful candidate will be responsive to time-sensitive and deadline-driven efforts, flexible in meeting multiple priorities, and able to thrive in a fast-paced environment. This position demands excellent communication skills, attention to detail, and creativity.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Learn and implement our OpenStudio/EnergyPlus energy modeling workflow to produce energy models efficiently and make informed recommendations.
  • Develop and modify scripts and other automation tooling and templates to increase the speed, versatility, and cost-effectiveness of our workflow.
  • Consult with clients and design teams on strategies to decarbonize and optimize their projects.
  • Make major design recommendations with little input from senior staff.
  • Develop technical analysis report and presentation deliverables and present to internal and external audiences.
  • Train junior staff to produce energy models. 
  • Manage budgets and timelines for yourself and junior staff conducting energy models.
  • Identify and develop new opportunities, collaborate on proposals and develop new business with new and existing clients.
  • Work and learn with our experienced team of over 50 engineers specializing in commercial and industrial energy efficiency.
  • The position is based out of our Salt Lake City, Utah or Oakland, CA office.
  • This is a hybrid position with the expectation of being in the office a minimum two days/week, ideally every day.

Perform other duties as needed.

What you Need:

  • Energy Engineering – A solid understanding of engineering principles and advanced analytical skills expected of bachelor-level engineering degree or above.  Understanding of major building HVAC equipment/lighting/controls technologies with a specialty in at least one area. Ideally 3-5 years of experience.
  • Energy Modeling – Experience with building energy modeling in EnergyPlus, including:
    • Familiarity with modeling using the OpenStudio application and SDK.
    • Strong preference given to those with experience in coding for OpenStudio/EnergyPlus using Ruby or Python.
    • Knowledge of standard modeling approaches including ASHRAE 90.1 Appendix G Performance Rating Method.
  • Knowledge and implementation experience of national, local energy conservation codes & local laws, and LEED.
  • Experience with custom programming/tool generation.
  • Working knowledge of other BIM programs.
  • Skilled in persistent follow-up to ensure tasks are completed on time and on budget. 
  • Open to learning and embracing new challenges.
  • Collaborative and client-focused – A clear communicator who can interact professionally with clients and on-site staff and enhance our reputation as an industry leader.
  • Detail oriented and organized, able to manage their own time toward a prescribed goal without micro-management.
  • Shares our core values: Integrity, Judgment, Community, Communication, Creativity, Impact, Curiosity, Passion.
  • Desired certifications – PE, BEMP.

Salary range is $100- $150k.

Final salary offered is based on location, skills and expertise, experience, and other relevant factors. (Salary may be adjusted based on geographic location)

Location: Oakland

kW Engineering is a leading energy engineering firm dedicated solely to helping our clients save money and reduce their carbon footprint, by optimizing and decarbonizing their facility energy use. We are driven to find creative, cost-effective solutions that meet our clients’ financial and sustainability goals while improving the health and resiliency of buildings. With our deep understanding of energy-using systems, sophisticated analysis techniques and on-the-ground experience, we stand by our recommendations and are excited to help see them through to completion. Our engineers are sophisticated, innovative technical leaders in the fast-evolving energy and sustainability worlds. As a private, independent firm, we treat every project as an opportunity to be trusted partners with our clients – showcasing our expertise, further refining our craft, and strengthening our reputation by delivering results. We aim to enjoy ourselves while making a difference for our people and our planet.

At kW we’re proud of our passionate, creative, fun and diverse team, and it is important to us that we continue to find new team members that share the values that make our company an awesome place to work. As a Commissioning Analytics Energy Engineer for kW Engineering, you will provide technical support for energy efficiency and decarbonization projects and programs that kW Engineering administers for our clients. You will collaborate with an outstanding team of engineers who are responsible for energy analysis and technical deliverables.  This is an opportunity to join and contribute to a highly advanced technical team serving sophisticated and motivated clients. We’re looking for these qualities in this mid-level position:

The successful candidate will be able to independently conduct energy investigations including but not limited to:

  • ASHRAE Level 1 & 2 Energy Audits
  • Retro-Commissioning (RCx) Projects
  • Commissioning (Cx) Projects

This position demands a willingness to quickly learn the energy engineering industry, excellent communication skills, attention to detail, and creativity.

Key Responsibilities

  • Independently conduct analyses of energy savings and lifecycle costs for energy and carbon savings measures for existing building systems, including but not limited to HVAC systems, lighting, on-site generation, and process systems.
  • Utilize SkySpark data analytics to support commissioning and ongoing commissioning at unique and complex facilities.
  • Perform measurement and verification of energy savings. Provide technical assistance to customers and utilities to ensure that energy saving impacts are real, and that the savings are on solid technical grounds.
  • Evaluate building operations and identify inefficiencies in building control parameters.
  • Perform root-cause analysis and work with client staff to implement corrective actions.
  • Demonstrate solid understanding of basic engineering principles.
  • Possess intermediate knowledge of building mechanical systems.
  • Demonstrate the ability and willingness to learn and take directions.
  • Work independently on technical tasks per direction and guidance of senior personnel.

Perform other duties as needed.

What you Need

  • A solid understanding of engineering principles and advanced analytical skills expected of bachelor-level engineering degree or above.
  • Typically, 3 – 5 years of experience.
  • Experience with SkySpark data analytics a plus.
  • Familiarity with major building HVAC equipment/lighting/controls technologies.
  • Familiarity with building control systems, particularly Metasys and Niagara.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
  • Ability to work in a team and on multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
  • Skilled in persistent follow-up to ensure tasks are completed on time.
  • Ability to work independently, prioritize tasks, and meet tight deadlines.
  • Open to learning and embracing new challenges.

The salary range is $100- $130k.

Final salary offered is based on location, skills and expertise, experience, and other relevant factors. (Salary may be adjusted based on geographic location)

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

 

Location: Salt Lake City

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead and coordinate a team of engineers responsible for energy analysis, ensuring the delivery of high-quality results. You will oversee the development and review of engineering calculations related to energy usage and savings while managing the planning, execution, and successful completion of engineering projects. Your role includes supervising fieldwork, as well as guiding technical assessments and analyses to support program development and implementation.
In addition to technical oversight, you will foster collaboration among team members and clients ensuring alignment with project requirements and client needs. Your leadership will drive the success of the team, as you mentor and manage engineers while ensuring that all projects meet quality and timeline expectations.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and review engineering calculations for energy usage and savings, ranging from basic to expert levels.
• Oversee the management of the Rocky Mountain Power (RMP) Program, leading a team of engineers to ensure program success and alignment with goals.
• Provide QC on work products that will be delivered to customers and ensuring deliverables meet and satisfy project intent and requirements.
• Lead technical assessments and analyses to support the development and implementation of projects, ensuring alignment with engineering objectives.
• Supervise Engineers, Project Engineers, and Senior Engineers, providing guidance and support as needed.
• Deliver technical training to junior staff to enhance their knowledge and proficiency in energy engineering.
• Engage with customers to build and strengthen relationships and expand kW’s service offerings to meet evolving needs.

Perform other duties as needed.

What you need

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, or related field preferred or equivalent education/work experience.
• 6+ years of experience.
• Experienced in the operation and application of major HVAC systems, advanced lighting technologies, or renewable energy solutions in energy engineering.
• Demonstrated experience in utilizing recognized methods to estimate energy usage and identify savings opportunities.
• Strong foundation in engineering principles and advanced analytical skills, with the ability to apply this knowledge in a leadership capacity, developed through formal education and extensive practical experience.
• Written and verbal communication skills.
• Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to lead a team and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite. Knowledge of creating and managing styles in Word preferred.
• Ability to work independently, prioritize tasks, and meet deadlines.
• Open to learning and embracing new challenges.

Location: Salt Lake City

As a Project Engineer, you will provide project support, ensuring high-quality deliverables. You will assist in the planning, execution, and management of engineering projects related to energy efficiency and demand-side management. You will develop and review engineering calculations related to energy usage and savings, from basic to moderate complexity. This role includes conducting fieldwork, such as verifying existing and replaced equipment and identifying potential projects. Additionally, you will conduct technical assessments and analyses to support program development and implementation. You will also collaborate closely with team members, clients, and stakeholders to gather requirements and ensure project alignment with client needs.

At kW we’re proud of our passionate, creative, fun and diverse team, and it is important to us that we continue to find new team members that share the values that make our company an awesome place to work. Our ideal candidate is passionate about energy efficiency and shares our commitment to making a difference.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop relationships between energy use and independent variables.
  • Provide project support to our Rocky Mountain Power (RMP) Program.
  • Conduct technical assessments and analyses to support project development and implementation.
  • Perform (QC) on standardized analyses to ensure accuracy.
  • Interact professionally with clients and on-site staff and enhance our reputation as an industry leader.

Perform other duties as needed.

What you Need
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, or related field preferred or equivalent education/work experience.
  • 3+ years of experience.
  • Understand relationships between energy use and independent variables.
  • Solid understanding of engineering principles and advanced analytical skills expected of bachelor-level engineering degree or above.
  • Written and verbal communication skills.
  • Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail.
  • Ability to work in a team and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite. Knowledge of creating and managing styles in Word preferred.
  • Ability to work independently, prioritize tasks, and meet deadlines.
  • Open to learning and embracing new challenges.

Location: Salt Lake City

As a Demand Side Management (DSM) Project Manager you will provide administrative and managerial support for energy efficiency programs that kW Engineering administers and implements on behalf of Rocky Mountain Power in Utah, Southeast Idaho and Western Wyoming. You will be responsible for a pay-for-performance multi-million-dollar contract and must ensure that we meet our contractual energy savings targets while focusing on ensuring that participants in the program receive exceptional customer service. You will manage and coordinate the work of a team of engineers who will be responsible for energy analysis and technical deliverables. As a Project Manager your input and collaboration will be critical as we develop responses to RFPs, RFQs and RFIs in support of our expanding business.  

Our ideal candidate will be responsive to time-sensitive and deadline-driven efforts, flexible in meeting multiple priorities, and able to thrive in a fast-paced environment. This position demands a willingness to quickly learn the energy engineering industry, excellent communication skills, attention to detail, and creativity.

Key Responsibilities

 

Program Management
  • Serve as a Project Manager to deliver DSM programs focused on the commercial sector. Responsible for overseeing all aspects of DSM program performance, which includes financial management, contract deliverables, strategic planning, quality assurance, and operational effectiveness.
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for delivery of DSM program to utility customer base. Ensure that customer service KPIs (JD Power, MASTIO) are met.
  • Interface directly with clients and help build and maintain relationships.
  • Present at local industry association chapters to promote participation in DSM programs.
  • Identify and develop new opportunities, collaborate on proposals and develop new business with new and existing clients.
  • Manage workload of project engineering teams to conduct site visits, engineering analysis and reports.
  • Maintain utility client project database.
  • Lead, manager, inspire and mentor staff.

Perform other duties as needed.

 

What you Need
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Marketing or related field preferred or equivalent education/work experience.
  • 5+ years of experience with utility DSM Program management or working in the industry.
  • Firm understanding of procurement best practices and contract administration.
  • Proficient in developing/or implementing data collection, tracking, and reporting processes (i.e. Customer relationship management (CRM) efforts.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail.
  • Ability to work in a team and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite. Knowledge of creating and managing styles in Word preferred.
  • Skilled in persistent follow-up to ensure tasks are completed on time.
  • Ability to work independently, prioritize tasks, and meet tight deadlines.
  • Open to learning and embracing new challenges.
  • Knowledge of energy engineering, sustainable practices, A&E, construction industry terminology is a plus.

 

 

Discover the Benefits of Working at kW Engineering

At kW Engineering, we prioritize the well-being and professional growth of our employees. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to support you in every aspect of your life. Here’s a glimpse of what we offer:

Health and Wellness:

Group health insurance, along with a company-funded Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA) to cover out-of-pocket expenses, including dental and vision.

Compensation:

Competitive salaries, a 401(k) plan with company match, and extensive insurance coverage including life, accidental death, and disability insurance.

Work-Life Balance

We value a healthy work-life balance, with a standard 40-hour work week. Additionally, we offer generous paid time off and paid holidays, including a community service day.

Career Growth

Ongoing training and professional development opportunities, tuition reimbursement, and well-defined opportunities for career advancement.

Join us at kW Engineering to be a part of a team that values your well-being and growth! 

Are you ready to make a meaningful impact with a career in sustainability?

Whether you’re passionate about creating innovative solutions or skilled in energy efficiency, kW Engineering is the place to be. Apply today by emailing your resume with a cover letter to careers@kw-engineering.com. Be sure to mention the open position and location in your subject line.  

Can’t find an available position that matches your expertise? Not to worry! We’re always on the lookout for talented passionate individuals. Email your resume and if your background aligns with our needs, we’ll be sure to reach out when something opens up