Job title: Housing Inspector & Construction Specialist
Company: Kambo Energy Group
Job description: ABOUT KAMBO ENERGY GROUP
Kambo Energy Group is a social enterprise committed to improving home comfort, safety, and energy efficiency in underserved communities. Founded in 2009, Kambo was created in response to the lack of participation in utility and government retrofit programming from households with low-to-moderate incomes, diverse multicultural communities, Indigenous communities, and other harder-to-reach groups. Over the course of 14 years, Kambo’s community-centered approach has helped utilities, governments, and other industry partners boost participation by embedding equity considerations into energy and home retrofit programs.
Kambo is home to three in-house programs: Empower Me, Community Power, and the Home Upgrades Program. Empower Me delivers multilingual education, support, and coaching services to ensure immigrant and newcomer communities have access to energy and retrofit programs. Community Power partners with Indigenous communities to facilitate home building, renovation, and improvement projects. The Home Upgrades Program provides fully subsidized energy retrofits to improve affordability for Albertan households living in energy poverty.
Kambo is led by a group of dynamic and passionate people who take our work seriously, but not ourselves. We believe Kambo is the place where people can show up as their full-self and do the best work of their lives in an engaging, dynamic, and fun environment.
ROLE
Reporting to the Construction Services Manager, this role will work in Community Power to support the delivery of our construction and housing service offerings. These services are often delivered in remote, isolated communities and range from housing condition assessments to new home construction and renovation estimating, project management partnerships, and other related work. This role will work alongside a small operations team to deliver benefits to our clients that improves homes and adds capacity to manage their housing projects. This is a fully remote (work from home) position that requires regular travel to communities across Western Canada.
To be successful in this role, you must be able to think creatively and pragmatically to solve unique challenges and be an exceptionally strong communicator who is skilled at relating to diverse groups of people. You are a natural leader who enjoys taking ownership of work in a dynamic and autonomous setting. You work well with small, collaborative teams and can embrace a diverse range of responsibilities to get things done.
RESPONSIBILITIES
This role is responsible for:
- The development of construction services content including housing assessment and upgrade reports, renovation scope documents, cost estimates, trade contracts, construction progress accounting reports, schedules and change orders.
- Performing building condition assessments in communities across BC and neighbouring provinces.
- Assessing the condition of various housing components such as foundations, windows and doors, roofs, attics, plumbing & electrical systems, etc.
- Working with energy specialists to formulate energy reduction strategies for community homes and buildings.
- Teaching and guiding community housing staff on best practices to correct deficiencies within homes and buildings.
- Generating detailed scopes of work and cost estimates for home and building maintenance and repair for the purpose of community-scale budgeting and planning.
- Presenting assessment findings to community members and leadership both virtually and in-person.
- Acting as a liaison between contractors, the client, and other stakeholders during renovation and construction projects and acting as the owner’s representative.
- Managing relationships with our partner communities as it relates to project work.
- Working with the Business Development team to define new construction and housing service offerings and refine existing offerings.
QUALIFICATIONS
- A thorough understanding of cold climate residential construction methods and best practices is required for this role.
- Degree, certificate, diploma or other formal training in Construction Management or building trade is required.
- A reasonable understanding of advanced building science is required.
- 2-5 years of direct experience in residential construction or construction management is required.
- Experience using MS Word and Excel and the ability to learn a variety of new software is required.
- Experience with client management and customer service is an asset.
- Having Red Seal, Building Inspector or Project Management certification is an asset.
- Interest in, and knowledge of high performance building systems is an asset.
- Must have a valid Class 5-passenger vehicle licence.
BENEFITS
- Extended health benefits
- Remote/hybrid work environment
- Unlimited paid vacation
- Apple laptop
- Team & social events
As an organization deeply rooted in addressing inequity in the climate sector, Kambo is committed to ensuring that our team reflects the communities we serve. As such, Indigenous applicants will be prioritized in the recruitment processes for this role.
This is a Remote position with travel required. There will be preference given to applicants located in Northern BC.
Expected salary: $80000 – 100000 per year
Location: Vancouver, BC
Job date: Wed, 13 Dec 2023 08:21:26 GMT
