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About the role
- Building Science Engineer leading Vertex’s British Columbia BCA/PCA practice. Building scalable assessment standards, field teams, QA/QC systems, and capital-planning services for property stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Establish and lead Vertex’s British Columbia Building Condition Assessment (BCA) / Property Condition Assessment (PCA) service line
- Develop methodology, technical standards, reporting protocols, and delivery model
- Define high-quality, consistent, and defensible assessment practices focused on clarity, risk identification, lifecycle planning, and capital planning insight
- Provide professional engineering oversight and review, authenticate, or seal engineering deliverables where required
- Serve as primary technical authority for BCA/PCA, capital planning, reserve fund planning, and related building condition services
- Establish assessment methodologies addressing building practices, climate conditions, construction types, seismic considerations, codes, regulations, and standards
- Align BCA/PCA methodologies with ASTM E2018 and recognized assessment frameworks
- Build, train, and mentor technologists, inspectors, engineers, and field staff
- Develop standardized inspection protocols, checklists, field data collection procedures, photographic documentation standards, and deficiency-rating criteria
- Implement scalable delivery supported by senior technical review and professional oversight
- Establish training and quality standards for deficiencies across building envelope, structural, mechanical, electrical, site, and life-safety systems
- Establish and oversee QA/QC processes for accurate, consistent, technically sound, defensible reports
- Review field data, technical findings, recommendations, lifecycle assumptions, and cost opinions
- Ensure reports distinguish observed conditions, reported conditions, assumptions, limitations, recommendations, and professional opinions
- Manage professional and project risk through clear communication of scope, exclusions, limitations, assumptions, and uncertainty
- Oversee project execution across commercial, industrial, institutional, multi-residential, condominium, and strata properties throughout British Columbia
- Ensure deliverables meet timelines, budgets, technical standards, and client expectations
- Provide technical leadership on complex, high-risk, or technically challenging assessments
- Coordinate with internal engineering disciplines and external specialists
- Support service-line expansion, proposals, client development, key accounts, and strategic initiatives
- Develop relationships with property owners, asset managers, lenders, insurers, developers, property managers, strata corporations, and other real estate stakeholders
- Integrate BCA/PCA services with environmental, roofing, building-envelope, structural, mechanical, electrical, and building-science capabilities
- Monitor legislation, regulations, professional practice requirements, and market expectations
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Mechanical, Structural, Building Science, or a related Engineering discipline
- Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation in good standing with Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia (EGBC)
- Ability to provide professional engineering oversight within the individual’s area of competence and according to applicable EGBC requirements
- Multi-provincial Canadian engineering registration is an asset
- 10+ years of experience in building science, engineering consulting, property condition assessment, or a related field, with significant BCA/PCA and capital planning experience
- Strong understanding of building systems, construction practices, deterioration mechanisms, maintenance requirements, and lifecycle performance
- Strong knowledge of British Columbia building construction and building performance, including building-envelope and moisture-related issues, seismic considerations, and regional climate impacts
- Experience with commercial, industrial, multi-residential, condominium, and/or strata properties
- Experience with depreciation reports, reserve fund planning, and long-term capital planning is strongly preferred
- Deep familiarity with ASTM E2018 and related property condition assessment and building assessment frameworks
- Working knowledge of applicable B.C. legislation, regulations, building requirements, and professional practice standards relevant to building assessments and engineering services
- Experience training, mentoring, and overseeing field-based assessment teams
- Strong technical writing skills for clear, concise, technically rigorous, client-ready reports
- Strong communication and relationship-management skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to balance technical quality, professional risk, project economics, schedules, and client expectations
Benefits
- Opportunity to build and lead a national service line from the ground up
- Direct influence on technical standards, delivery model, and team structure
- Scalable platform with growth opportunities across Canada and the U.S.
- Entrepreneurial environment with meaningful leadership responsibility
- Health, safety and community well-being support
- Equal opportunity employer
- Accommodation available on request during the selection process
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