Senior Sustainability Consultant (Life Cycle Assessments)
Building Services Consultancy
Up to £46k + Benefits
City of London
The challenges we face today in our society are ever changing, for which the consequences are far reaching and complex. The World Economic Forum highlights the interconnected nature of global risks today, the majority of which have environmental and social implications for our Clients, their stakeholders and their people.
Our clients Global Sustainability Group is a strategic collective that works directly with organisations, affiliate groups and individuals to help them understand and respond to these challenges and manage their risk.
They are a specialist advisory group that acts exclusively or as part of an integrated service and this elevates their offering above others. They operate at all levels within organisations, from advising on macro environmental and social issues to executives, through to masterplanning towns and cities and delivering world class engineering sustainable design solutions.
The role:
The Senior Sustainability Project Engineer is responsible for supporting and working with the London Sustainability Manager to help establish our clients sustainability presence in the UK and EMEA region market. The employee is responsible for the delivery of sustainability engineering/consulting services within three key operating streams (Strategic Advisory, Buildings and Places). This role works with moderate autonomy, applying technical knowledge and skills as an individual contributor to teams and projects.
* You will be an integral member of the Global Sustainability Group and as such may work across all offices, engaging with multiple internal and external stakeholders.
* You will be required to participate and support the local Sustainability Manager in marketing/business development activities, such as: organising and attending events, assisting in proposal writing and meeting Clients.
* You will already have 3-4 years of experience and ideally will be able to demonstrate thorough understanding of embodied carbon, whole life cycle assessments (WLXCA) and will have experience working on establishing sustainability strategies for clients organisations.
* You will ideally have some traction with ESG reporting and strategic advisory too.
* Working in a virtual operating group with multiple stakeholders in a complex environment.
* Dealing with high level, urgent and confidential issues
* Managing varied and conflicting demands to meet agreed standards and timelines
* Coordination with internal and external consultants and disciplines.
Skills
Required:
* Educated in Engineering or the Built Environment and having at least 3-4 years of relevant practical experience in a similar role
* Advanced knowledge of Whole Life Cycle Assessments and embodied carbon calculations.
* Experience dealing with sustainability reports for planning and a good knowledge of London and UK-wide planning policy relevant to sustainability
* Experience in carrying out Energy and Thermal modelling (including Building Regulations Part L compliance, heating/cooling loads, overheating modelling) would be desirable, in order to support the rest of the team.
* Excellent communication skills
* Being able to work independently
Desirable:
* Experience working on strategic advisory assignments and helping clients deliver their ESG reporting targets.
* working on other bench marking assessments (e.g. LEED, WELL, or other) would be advantageous
* Project management skills
Your expert recruitment consultant is Jamie Wynne, call today on 0207 422 7463 or email j.wynne@edenbrown.com Eden Brown is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Eden Brown Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.