Building Sustainability – Ontario Market Lead

Job Description

CIMA+’s Buildings team is recognized across Canada for designing high-quality, energy-efficient, and resilient buildings that prioritize occupant comfort and long-term performance. Our portfolio includes award-winning projects and some of the country’s most complex high-performance buildings. To continue delivering exceptional value to our clients, we have established a national team of sustainability specialists dedicated to supporting high-performance and low-carbon projects across Canada.

We are seeking a Building Sustainability, Ontario Market Lead to grow and lead our sustainability advisory practice in Ontario. This role is primarily client facing and market focused, with accountability for building relationships, shaping opportunities, leading pursuits, and positioning CIMA+ as a trusted advisor for building performance, decarbonization, and resilience strategies. The role works closely with our Ontario Buildings leadership and our national sustainability team to convert market demand into scalable services and consistent delivery and will collaborate closely with national sustainability leads and regional sustainability leads across Canada to align strategy, share expertise, and scale delivery. 

The successful candidate brings a strong Ontario client network, proven business development capability, excellent facilitation and communication skills, and enough technical depth to lead executive level conversations and guide multidisciplinary teams toward measurable outcomes. This role can be based in our Toronto, Mississauga, Markham or Bowmanville offices in a hybrid model (2 days /week in the office).

Key responsibilities

Ontario growth and client leadership
• Own the Ontario market growth plan for building sustainability services and deliver annual sales targets
• Build and maintain senior level client relationships across developers, owners, institutions, utilities, and public sector clients
• Identify and qualify opportunities, lead pursuit strategy, and direct proposal development in collaboration with internal teams
• Lead client meetings and executive presentations that connect technical solutions to value, risk reduction, and return on investment
• Represent CIMA+ through industry presence, speaking opportunities, partner relationships, and targeted thought leadership

National and cross regional collaboration
• Work closely with national sustainability leads and regional sustainability leads to align service offerings, share best practices, and coordinate delivery
• Partner with other regions to support multi market clients and pursue national opportunities with consistent positioning and technical approach
• Contribute to national practice development, including tools, templates, quality standards, and knowledge sharing

Advisory and technical leadership
• Provide strategic direction and senior oversight for building performance analysis, operational carbon, and decarbonization roadmaps for new and existing buildings
• Guide project teams on energy and carbon targets, EUI strategy, electrification pathways, and retrofit prioritization
• Provide senior review of energy modeling and GHG analysis approaches for alignment with NECB, Ontario requirements, and project goals
• Lead advisory conversations on whole building life cycle assessment, embodied carbon reduction, and life cycle cost considerations
• Support climate risk, vulnerability, and resilience assessments and help clients translate findings into actionable measures

Practice, team, and quality leadership
• Lead, mentor, and grow the Ontario sustainability team, including recruitment and capability development
• Coordinate resourcing with the national sustainability team to scale delivery without being the day-to-day modeler on every project
• Establish service offerings, templates, quality processes, and consistent client deliverables for Ontario pursuits and projects
• Facilitate integrated design workshops and stakeholder alignment sessions to maintain momentum from early design through delivery
• Partner with mechanical, electrical, architectural, and planning teams to embed sustainability into project strategy and client narratives

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in building engineering, building science, mechanical engineering, environmental engineering, or a related discipline
• 10 plus years of progressive experience in building sustainability consulting, with clear evidence of client leadership and practice growth
• Experience managing projects pursuing green building certifications like LEED, WELL, Zero Carbon is a must
• Demonstrated success leading pursuits, building pipelines, and converting relationships into secured work
• Strong Ontario market network and the ability to build credibility with senior decision makers
• Working knowledge of energy modeling tools and sustainability platforms such as EnergyPlus, IES VE, eQUEST, and LCA software such as One Click LCA, with the ability to direct and review technical work produced by others
• Strong understanding of sustainable development, energy efficient systems, carbon accounting, and incentive or funding programs
• Professional accreditations such as LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP, Envision SP, or equivalent are strongly preferred
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and the ability to translate technical topics into clear business decisions

 Why join CIMA+?

• Work with a national platform delivering award-winning high-performance buildings across Canada
• Join an employee-owned firm that values collaboration, entrepreneurship, and sustainability leadership
• Build and lead a growing Ontario practice with strong support from a national team of specialists
• Flexible work arrangements and strong opportunities for professional growth and leadership

For more information about this job opportunity, please contact Georgeta Suta

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Additional Information

At CIMA+, we recognize the richness and diversity of each individual’s experience. Compensation for this role is therefore based on the candidate’s experience, skills, and qualifications, while maintaining internal equity. The level and associated salary may vary depending on the candidate’s profile.

CIMA+ uses an applicant tracking system that includes an automated match score feature. However, this score is not used to screen, assess, or select applicants. All hiring decisions are made through human review.

Ethics and integrity are fundamental values at CIMA+. That is why we are committed to ensuring equal access to resources and opportunities for candidates, regardless of their identity (race, ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, socio-economic status or background, etc.).​

In keeping with the principles of employment equity, we encourage all applications, including, but not limited to, those from women, Indigenous people, people with disabilities and visible minorities. We also encourage candidates to complete the self-identification form when applying for employment.​

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Compensation: 125440 to 172480 (CAD) (YEARLY)