Sustainability Associate (Built Environment)

Full Job Description

Associate Sustainability (Built Environment)
London
Paying up to 70k (dependent on experience)
Permanent position - Hybrid working

A fantastic opportunity to join a leading multi-disciplinary construction consultancy who are looking for a Sustainability Associate to join their London team to lead the growth of the division and become the face of sustainability for the business.

The Company
They provide a full range of surveying, design, engineering and consultancy services to the built environment. They provide the majority of the core professional disciplines together with a number of specialist services to support all aspects of developing, constructing, upgrading and maintaining property assets over a very diverse client base in both the public and private sectors.
Their Vision is to become the leading privately owned consultancy in the South of England, differentiating themselves from the large corporates, being a best place to work and a leader in the market in each of our disciplines/specialisms.
As a business they have recognised their responsibility to lead change within the built environment. They are adopting a Carbon and Energy-led approach to their design services to enable their clients to realise their requirements whilst also reducing energy consumption and Carbon footprint.
They are looking for an ambitious leader to help transform their Environmental Engineering team into a dynamic, client focused entity. The successful candidate will lead and develop their Sustainability and Building Physics team with the aim of helping to create a better, healthier, and more sustainable built environment for their clients.

The Role
To develop and manage a team to provide a full range of sustainability and conceptual engineering services to complement the Building Services Engineering team.
To provide directly or manage the delivery of:
- Energy Strategy Concept and Design
- Energy Assessment & Certification
- Building Physics and Building Modelling Services
- Building Performance and operational Energy Optimization
- LZC Technology Assessments, Energy Statements for Planning
- BREEAM, LEED, SKA, PassivHaus etc Assessments, Certification and Compliance
- Understand the requirements of Wellbeing and Wellness Assessments and be able to provide guidance.
To lead/co-lead business development in the sustainable environmental engineering sector with the Director of Building Services.
To assist in the establishment of the Group's ESG team and champion the Sustainability goals of the Group.

Requirements
- Educated to degree/master's degree level (or equivalent) in Engineering or the Built Environment.
- 5 years' experience or more in the built environment and sustainability field
- Understanding of the requirements for BREEAM, LEED, PassivHaus, Ska and EnerPHit certification.
- Working level of BIM integration knowledge using the UK BIM Framework and ISO 19650
- Understanding of project, people, and resource management.
- Excellent communication skills.

Key Attributes
- Be enthusiastic, proactive, flexible and adaptive.
- Able to influence and collaborate at executive and senior management level.
- Provide others with a clear sense of purpose and direction, stimulating a productive team climate where members participate and feel involved.
- Put case across with impact and conviction whilst presenting facts clearly and logically.
- Provide feedback and encourage others to contribute ideas and opinions.
- Able to maintain a balance between driving people and releasing their own potential.
- Project a strong sense of confidence in ability to handle difficult situations and achieve results.
- Displays persistence, determination and energy in overcoming obstacles.
- Full understanding of business activities/ relationships across the Market Sector and the wider Group and to promote the Company brand and views.
- Able to influence and support in commercial policies by understanding gross margin performance needs and be able to read and understand contracts.
- Ability to put together and deliver logical and influential presentations.

Salary & Benefits
- Looking to pay a salary of up to 70k (dependent on level of experience).
- Hybrid home/office working policy.
- Flexible working policy.
- Annual leave - sell, buy & carry-over policies.
- Health Shield cash plan.
- Long service award.
- Incentive scheme.
- Cycle-to-work scheme.
- Life assurance.
- Annual season ticket loan.
- Generous maternity & paternity pay.

In this role they are looking for someone with a Sustainability construction background who is a people person, able to manage others and comfortable in a client facing role. Once in the business, over the first 2 years or so the successful candidate would be working towards an Associate Director level and would in turn be responsible for their own P&L (which would come with an interesting bonus).

If you're looking to take the next step in your career and to move into a leadership role, then please do get in touch!
Either apply below or get in touch with Zoe Elliott on: (url removed)

Eden Brown is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.