Senior Sustainability Consultant / Engineer

Location London or Bicester or Newcastle

Region EMEA

Flexibility Hybrid

Discipline Engineering

RED are an expanding international M&E consultancy, with a proven track record in low energy design, focused on providing excellent design solutions to clients.

Through our market leading technical expertise, we enable the world’s digital infrastructure and develop the built environment whilst also helping clients realise ambitious plans for zero carbon-built environments. We cover the entire life cycle of any building project, with our broad capability offering saving our clients time, money, and effort. Our approach is centred around listening to our clients and interacting energetically with our fellow project stakeholders. We add value with our people, client service ethos, global delivery strategy, technical ability, and attitude.

We now seek a Senior Sustainability Consultant/ Engineer to be based in one of our UK offices: London, Bicester or Newcastle.

Role Responsibilities

Designing a sustainability future in the Build Environment
Collaborate in a team delivering a wide ranging sustainability appointments including design projects, LEED, BREEAM, TRUE, WLCA, ASHRAE Energy Audits, ESOS/EED, Part L (UK/Ireland), Energy/Carbon Modelling (IES/OneClick LCA)
Act as the sustainability LEED Assessor for RED Design Projects, bids and tender preparation and co-ordination with wider bidding and design teams.
Undertake site visits and audits in support of sustainability appointments
Draft, review and issue LEED reports, meeting minutes, contractual documentation, calculations, technical reports, presentations and action lists
Carry out independent research to support the sustainability appointments
Flexibility to assist the SS&CC team and wider business in meeting business/project deadlines
Contribute to SS&CC ESG activities ‘Walking the talk’ advocating for sustainability

Role Requirements

Required: Sustainability experience (should include: LEED, could include, BREEAM, TRUE, UKNZBS, LETI, Part L, IES, OneClick, GLA, WLC, TM44, Energy Audits, ESOS, EED, NABERS, CIBSE LCEA)
At least 3 years experience of working on Sustainability Real estate projects
Advantageous: Qualified in, good working knowledge of or working towards qualification in one or more of the following: (LEED AP, BREEAM / BREEAM AP, BREEAM Site AP, Fitwel, NABERs, ISO 50001, LCEA Level 5, TRUE, DNGB)
Educated to degree level or equivalent in engineering/ environment discipline
Client facing experience
An understanding of construction process in the UK/Ireland
Good understanding of the planning process. Interaction with planners advantageous.
General understanding of Building Services design and industry engineering terms
Ability to produce high quality written reports
Ability to work to deadlines and budgets
Ability to prioritise workload
Flexibility – to meet deadlines (and know when to push them back) and to travel to site meeting/inspections
Advanced knowledge of excel (essential) and word/outlook (desirable)
Good knowledge of working online remotely from home using Zoom/Teams/Google Docs etc.
Good knowledge of MS office applications including PowerPoint and publisher
Ability to present clearly to design teams, in person and over video calls
Accuracy/excellent attention to detail
Background in consulting or construction preferred.
Good understanding of international working and business operations of a global consultancy.
Understanding of how to embed sustainability into projects and in general and follow the principles of the Sustainability guidelines of the Group both at work and beyond
Act in an ethical manner and follow the principles of the Ethics Charter and Ethics in Practice Guidelines of the Group

Benefits

RED offers a variety of benefits, including but not limited to:

23 days annual leave rising to 28 days annual leave over 5 years’ service
Holiday purchase and buy back scheme
Hybrid Working
Contributory company pension scheme
Healthcare Scheme via salary sacrifice (Company funded cover is dependant on level)
Non-contractual bonus awards
Training sponsorship
Charity volunteering leave
Wellness days/ initiatives.
Salary commensurate with experience.
Our people work in friendly teams with a collaborative approach and mentoring support from talented leaders.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package and are an equal opportunities employer.

*This role will ideally suit those with the right to live & work in the UK without restrictions, as we are unable to offer sponsorship at the present time.