Associate Director Sustainability Consultant

Position Summary

To jointly manage the sustainability team on a day-to-day basis, providing a quality service within the boundaries of our professional and commercial capabilities. The Associate/Associate Director should lead projects on behalf of the Sustainability group and manage delivery of the client’s services to the highest standard and on time.

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day contact for the Location Directors, organising, and coordinating design team and client meetings discussing energy, sustainability, environmental and health & wellbeing topics.
• Implement client’s Net Zero Carbon strategies, ideally leading the embodied carbon service line.
• Assist the Sustainability Director to develop new business for the Sustainability team by building relationships with existing and new clients, both internally and externally.
• Effectively manage the Sustainability team day-to-day, ensuring effective forecasting, measuring of works in progress, driving office initiatives, and managing the Sustainability team resource.
• Distribute project workload and liaise with technical and other support staff to ensure acceptable product delivery.
• Act as a role model for the Sustainability Team.
• Attend business development events, conferences and other marketing activities.
• Carry out presentations to clients and lead technical meetings.
• Provide project focal point for clients and lead or support consultants to ensure client interests are most effectively fulfilled.
• Maximise staff effectiveness and improve efficiency by enhancing client relationships, improving internal systems and developing staff skills.
• Interlink and work effectively with all others affecting or affected by your work.
• Adopt a responsible attitude to project manage and actively undertake training and development of subordinate staff.
• Ensure application and maintenance of all Quality System procedures.
• Ensure client documentation is processed in accordance with all relevant procedures.
• Manage multiple projects, including organising trainee staff and delivering projects to time and cost requirements.
• Assist in the preparation of fee bids, proposals and interviews.
• Develop thought leadership and technical articles for industry publications.
• Undertake building environmental modelling, building physics and sustainability models (energy, overheating, daylight/sunlight).
• Undertake preliminary concept design studies to influence building shape, form and function.
• Develop energy and sustainability strategies for diverse schemes.
• Comply with all security procedures and commercial in-confidence restrictions associated with work duties.
• Carry out personal management duties including weekly recording of man-hour commitments to individual projects and monthly reporting of project fee input information.
• Undertake all other duties as may be required to assist in the fulfilment of the primary objectives of the Directors.
• Ensure compliance with the IMS by supporting the administration of the Internal Audit programme, corrective action and customer feedback registers.

Qualifications

• Ideally a Chartered Engineer or equivalent discipline, preferably Sustainable Design and Energy.
• Experienced energy assessor able to develop, maintain and validate energy models using IES VE.
• Relevant accreditations (e.g., LCC, LCEA).
• Exposure to LCA/WLCA, Circular Economy, BREEAM, WELL, LEED and related frameworks.
• Knowledge and experience in implementation of planning policy sustainability requirements (including GLA requirements).
• Significant industry experience (typically 10 years or more), with demonstrated leadership experience (ideally 5 years).
• Experience in office and regional team management.
• Confident engaging with senior design team personnel and clients, including Developers, Owners, Investors and Occupiers.
• Experience managing multiple, concurrent projects covering all aspects of sustainability in the built environment.
• Ability to lead from the front and by example.
• Excellent people skills to ensure staff engagement.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Focus on quality and continuous improvement.

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