Field practitioners
Energy advisors, insulation and air sealing crews, heat pump installers, blower-door operators. The people whose day is the subject matter.
CABCEP is looking for experienced people from every part of Canadian energy efficiency to sit on its board and committees. Unpaid, a few hours a month, and the only thing that makes a body like this worth anything.
This board will be worth exactly as much as the people on its committees, and no more. A register is only credible if practitioners set the verification rules. A certification scheme is only defensible if the people who do the work wrote the competency profile. And a body claiming to speak for an industry can only do it if that industry is actually sitting in the room.
So this is an open call, and it stays open.
These are unpaid volunteer appointments. CABCEP does not pay board members or committee members, and there is no honorarium. Expenses for in-person meetings are covered, and that is the whole of it. Expect a few hours a month, mostly reading documents, plus a scheduled meeting. If what you need is paid work in this industry, the honest answer is that this is not it — but the register is free and it exists to put your name where building owners and programme staff can find it.
Experience doing the work, not seniority. A crew lead who has opened three thousand attics knows things a director of policy does not, and the competency profile for an envelope scheme has to be written by the first person, checked by the second, and not the other way round.
Energy advisors, insulation and air sealing crews, heat pump installers, blower-door operators. The people whose day is the subject matter.
The businesses that hold the NRCan licence and employ the advisors, and that took the hardest hit when the federal programme ended.
Energy managers, auditors and engineers working to CEM, CEA and CMVP, and anybody living with municipal benchmarking and building performance standards.
Colleges, private trainers and exam centres. You may not sit on a scheme committee for a credential you prepare people for — but there is a seat for you, and the policy says which one.
People who read NECB 2025 for a living, or who work inside a provincial or municipal programme and know where the rules actually bind.
Atlantic Canada, the Prairies, the North, and French-language delivery. A national board made entirely of southern Ontario is not a national board.
Almost everybody useful to this board has a commercial interest somewhere in the industry. The rule is that it is declared before the seat is offered and published alongside the appointment, and that it decides which committee you can sit on rather than whether you can sit at all. What disqualifies someone is not declaring it.
Related
The registry
Listing is free, verified against the issuing body, and open to practitioners certified by anyone. The registry is only worth anything if it is the whole industry.