Senior Sustainability Consultant
Posted 1ds ago
Employment Information
Report this job
Job expired or something wrong with this job?
Job Description
Senior Sustainability Consultant helping AECOM, a global infrastructure consulting firm, deliver carbon reduction and sustainable building strategies. Supporting UK Defence, healthcare, education and commercial-sector projects from design through construction.
Responsibilities:
- Support clients in developing and understanding sustainability and decarbonisation requirements
- Develop, deliver and review whole life carbon reduction strategies using frameworks such as GLA, LETI, RIBA, RICS and BREEAM
- Liaise with clients and designers to develop sustainability and decarbonisation strategies from early design through construction
- Deliver assessment certification schemes including BREEAM and DREAM
- Deliver sustainability appraisals such as SAW and SEEAM
- Support project management and programming
- Support work winning through bidding processes and tender responses
- Mentor junior staff where appropriate
- Deliver sustainability and carbon services for public and private sector clients, especially UK Defence and National Security projects
- Help clients design and deliver low-carbon, resilient and sustainable estates
Requirements:
- Good knowledge of the building design and construction process
- Experience undertaking whole life carbon assessments using OneClick LCA
- Experience with assessment certification schemes, especially BREEAM and DREAM
- LEED and/or WELL experience is advantageous
- Experience delivering sustainability appraisals
- Strong numerical and analytical skills
- Ability to interpret data and apply it to practical sustainability solutions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to clearly present technical information
- High attention to detail and methodical problem-solving approach
- Flexible and adaptable, with ability to manage varied workloads across multiple projects
- Demonstrated experience of sustainable buildings, low-carbon design and environmental performance
- Understanding of broader sustainability issues and project mitigation approaches
- Understanding of current and future sustainability and decarbonisation policies and best-practice guidance
- Willingness to work on Defence and National Security projects
- Active UK SC Clearance or ability to gain UK SC Clearance
- Ideally a single UK nationality
Benefits:
- Hybrid work options and work flexibility
- In-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office
- Access to industry-leading technology and thinking
- Transformational work with big impact
- Compensation, benefits and well-being programs for employees and their families
- Culture of equity, diversity and inclusion
- Disability Confident Employer and Disability Confident Interview Scheme
- Growth and success opportunities
- Safe and respectful workplace
- Professional development through mentoring and upskilling opportunities
















