The Role
The Smart Building Consultant designs and delivers integrated technology solutions for complex environments, leading clients through planning to post-occupancy support.
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If you think your skills, experience and aspirations make you a good match for this position, we encourage you to apply.
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Smart Building Consultant will lead the planning, design, and delivery of integrated technology solutions for complex building environments. This role is responsible for guiding clients from early concept (Basis of Design) through design documentation, vendor procurement, implementation oversight, and post-occupancy optimization. The consultant serves as the client’s trusted advisor throughout the entire lifecycle—ensuring that smart building strategies align with operational priorities, user needs, and long-term facility goals.
HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL DO
Client Engagement & Strategy
- Facilitate early-stage stakeholder workshops to define project vision, outcomes, and smart building use cases.
- Translate operational and facility goals into actionable smart building strategies and technical roadmaps.
- Develop and deliver executive-level briefings and decision support materials to align client teams around key milestones.
- Cultivate long-term client relationships, providing ongoing support beyond project closeout.
- Lead the development of smart building Basis of Design (BoD) documents, integrating input from IT, facilities, operations, and design teams.
- Collaborate with architects, engineers, and low-voltage/system designers to ensure smart building strategies are fully embedded into design documentation.
- Develop system-level integration strategies and detailed design requirements for technologies such as BMS, lighting controls, RTLS, access control, audiovisual, scheduling, laboratory monitoring, IoT platforms, and workplace experience solutions.
- Translate use cases into technical and integration requirements for each system, ensuring interoperability and data alignment.
- Deliver design work in standardized formats, including project tools, processes, and deliverables.
- Support the development of project budgets and cost models related to smart building systems and integrations.
- Support clients in developing RFPs and evaluating vendor proposals for smart building platforms, applications, and point solutions.
- Provide technical guidance during the selection process, including proposal reviews, interview facilitation, and scoring.
- Align vendor scopes of work with project goals and integration requirements to minimize gaps and overlaps.
- Track project execution across trades and technology vendors to ensure solutions are delivered as designed.
- Review submittals, shop drawings, and integration strategies, providing feedback aligned with BoD and client expectations.
- Facilitate coordination between IT, contractors, and platform providers during commissioning and system integration phases.
- Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) processes and work with vendors to resolve issues prior to handover.
- Provide post-occupancy support, including onboarding of facilities, operations, and IT teams to smart platforms.
- Define operational KPIs and display them on dashboards, supported by alerting protocols and workflows.
- Guide clients in long-term roadmap planning, system upgrades, and use case expansion.
- Maintain ongoing relationships to support continuous improvement and long-term platform value.
HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL NEED
- Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Systems, Mechanical, Computer, Technology, or related discipline) required.
- Minimum 5+ years of experience delivering smart building, technology integration, or digital infrastructure projects required.
- Demonstrated experience in the design and implementation of technology within the built environment.
- Familiarity with building systems and digital technologies such as BMS, RTLS, access control, scheduling, environmental monitoring, IoT platforms/devices, and user experience tools.
- Strong project management skills, including the ability to manage timelines, budgets, and multiple stakeholders.
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with experience engaging diverse client audiences—from operations teams to IT directors.
- Ability to develop technical requirements, interface diagrams, and deliverables aligned with regulatory, compliance, and security standards.
- Experience with procurement processes and vendor coordination.
- Willingness to travel for key client meetings and site visits.
- Experience working in Healthcare or Science & Technology environments, with familiarity in clinical workflows, laboratory systems, or research facility operations is preferred.
The salary range for this position is $94,200 to $117,800 annually. This salary range is the range we believe is the anticipated range of possible base compensation at the timing of the posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the anticipated salary range for the position. Employees may be eligible for discretionary bonuses. We offer a full benefit package including medical, dental and vision coverage and flexible spending account options and voluntary insurances. We have paid time off, flex-time schedules, remote work options and a 401k plan and employee perk programs. For a general overview of our benefits, please visit our careers page at https://www.cannondesign.com/careers/benefits. Actual compensation may vary from posting based on geographic location, work experience, education and/or skill level.
ABOUT OUR FIRM
As part of CannonDesign’s industry-leading consulting family, The Clarient Group is a leader in Smart Building consulting. We bring a systems engineering approach to buildings — aligning IT, operational technology, and human experience to create integrated environments that deliver performance, sustainability, and long-term value. Our projects span commercial office, healthcare, science & technology, education, and civic environments, where we design and deliver smart building strategies, integration frameworks, and data-driven solutions.
ABOUT WORKING HERE
- We are a start-up culture in an established firm: nimble, energetic, innovative and fun.
- We are relentless in our pursuit of client adoration (not simply satisfaction). Consistent delivery of the best service is what we are about.
- We are committed to ensuring our practice provides equal opportunities for all employees, as we strive to connect with communities around us and focus on the future of design. We support equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts that benefit all employees through the leadership of our DEI Council, our Employee Resource Groups which are open to everyone, and other community initiatives.
- We’re about communication and transparency here. If you want to talk to someone about an idea you have, or a challenge that needs addressing, we’re ready for you.
Please note that candidates can only apply to our positions on our company Careers site. It's not uncommon for scammers to create positions that look legitimate on other sites; never enter your information or apply for CannonDesign positions on any platform. Should an issue arise that you feel we should be aware of, please contact us. Please provide your resume and portfolio when applying.
As a condition of employment, all employees are expected to complete mandatory training, including compliance training, within required timeframes and adhere to our internal policies and our Code of Conduct.
CannonDesign is an Equal Opportunity Employer. CannonDesign is committed to maintaining a work environment that is free from any and all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment. It is therefore the firm’s policy to prohibit discrimination and harassment against any applicant, CannonDesign employee, vendor, contractor, or client on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. It is also CannonDesign’s policy to prohibit any and all forms of retaliation against any individual who has complained of harassing or discriminatory conduct, or participated in a firm or agency investigation into such complaints.
Top Skills
Access Control
Audiovisual
Bms
Iot Platforms
Laboratory Monitoring
Lighting Controls
Rtls
Scheduling
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The Company
What We Do
As an integrated design firm, we do a lot of things. But at our core, we help people continuously flourish.
We leverage the heart, passion and intelligence of our more than 1,000 creative thinkers to develop solutions for some of the greatest challenges facing our clients and society. Whether designing for equity in education, accessible healthcare, inclusive communities, new scientific discoveries or the “next big idea” in business, we partner with organizations to help them improve human life.
We do this through a design approach we created called Living-Centered Design. Our approach realizes that to create a world where people continuously flourish, we must address the complex interdependencies that exist between people, businesses, communities, society and the environment.
Learn more at cannondesign.com/livingcentereddesign.
