Job Overview

The Principal, Energy and Carbon Solutions plays a critical leadership role in advancing technical excellence, client delivery, and sustainable growth within our ECS (Energy and Carbon Solutions) team. The role provides senior technical and practice leadership for ECS work, with accountability for the quality, consistency, and commercial performance of an assigned portfolio of projects and clients. In partnership with ECS and Buildings leadership, you will strengthen ECS as a distinct service offering within the broader Buildings practice by supporting market positioning, identifying growth opportunities, and converting studies, audits, feasibility work, and advisory assignments into longer-term implementation projects. You will mentor and develop your team, foster a culture of continuous learning and accountability, and ensure energy, carbon, sustainability, technical, regulatory, operational, and client requirements are integrated for holistic project success.

What You Will Do:

Client Delivery

- Lead client delivery across an assigned portfolio of Energy and Carbon Solutions projects, ensuring client expectations, project objectives, scope, schedule, budget, quality, technical requirements and professional obligations are clearly understood and met.
- Build and maintain trusted, long-term client relationships and serve as a senior point of contact for the assigned client portfolio, including critical client conversations and external engagements.
- Understand client business drivers, define expectations and scope, maintain clear communication throughout the project lifecycle, and proactively resolve issues that may affect client satisfaction or project success.
- Lead or materially contribute to chance identification,



capture planning, win strategy, proposal leadership, pricing posture, fee review, contract review, contract negotiation, closing strategy and client presentations for ECS opportunities.
- Help convert studies, audits, conceptual energy analyses, funding application support, zero carbon building services, geothermal design, commissioning, energy modelling and advisory work into executed capital projects delivered through Buildings and other business units.
- Provide senior project leadership on complex or high-risk work, including oversight of delivery approach, interdisciplinary coordination, project performance, change management, claims exposure and client commitments.

Leadership and Culture

- Lead and guide a discipline-based team of up to 15 people across a range of concurrent projects.
- Set clear priorities, accountabilities and performance expectations, and align team capacity and capability with the work pipeline.
- Coach, mentor and develop team members through regular feedback, career conversations, technical guidance and meaningful stretch opportunities.
- Create a collaborative, inclusive and accountable team environment that supports engagement, continuous learning and high performance.
- Assess resource needs, support recruitment and onboarding, and contribute to succession and workforce planning.




- Coordinate with other Principals and leaders to level resources across the business and enable integrated project delivery.

Business Process and Technical Oversight

- Serve as a senior technical authority for Energy and Carbon Solutions, providing direction on energy modelling, geothermal design, building optimization, decarbonization pathways, commissioning, energy analytics and related energy and carbon disciplines.
- Confirm that appropriate ECS standards, templates, review protocols, technical criteria, quality controls and project management requirements are established and followed to support consistent, scalable delivery.
- Review or direct the review of complex technical documentation, designs, specifications, reports, estimates and other deliverables within the discipline.
- Guide the resolution of complex technical issues and make or elevate decisions in accordance with professional obligations and the firm’s governance processes.
- Ensure work complies with applicable legislation, regulations, codes, standards of professional practice, client requirements and firm procedures.
- Promote innovation, continuous improvement and practical adoption of new methods and technology while protecting quality, safety, schedule and budget outcomes.

Financial Delivery

- Own the financial performance of the assigned portfolio of projects and take timely action to address emerging risks or variances.
- Oversee project budgets, fees, schedules, resourcing, forecasting, revenue recognition, work in progress, invoicing, accounts receivable and project financial reporting.
- Where applicable, ensure project managers m

📌 Principal, Energy and Carbon Solutions (Canada)
🏢 The Walter Fedy Partnership
📍 Canada