sustainability consultant

Trainee Sustainability Consultant

Job Description

Job Title: Trainee Sustainability Consultant
Directly reports to: Sustainability Director
No of Direct Reports: 0
Location: UK Wide

Position Summary:

To develop skills necessary to carry out the role of a Sustainability Consultant.

Responsibilities and authority:

  • Assist in the delivery of Energy, Carbon and wider sustainability certification assessments
  • Adopt a responsible attitude to and actively undertake training
  • Regularly review personal workload to allow forward planning. Develop and frequently review priority lists of programmed tasks
  • Ensure application and maintenance of all Quality System procedures
  • Carry out all personal management duties including weekly recording of man-hour commitments to individual projects
  • Comply with all security procedures and commercial in-confidence restrictions associated with work duties
  • Contribute to the maintenance of the highest possible standards of design and reporting by developing a good working knowledge of proven building services systems and new developments in the Building Services industry
  • To contribute to ensuring operations are conducted in accordance with the relevant ISO and national legislation
  • To ensure contract compliance with the Integrated Management System, by supporting the administration of the Internal Audit programme, corrective action and customer feedback registers

Education and Experience:

  • Educated to degree level in a related discipline preferred but not essential. Full training will be provided on the job.

Specific skills, knowledge, competencies and training

Essential:

  • Excellent communication skills, coupled with a flexible and proactive approach to work and a willingness to share knowledge to thrive in this busy team
  • The ability to produce and review high quality reports to predefined deadlines
  • Competent PC user
  • The successful candidate will be required to contribute to reports for clients and so attention to detail, reliability, good organisational skills are paramount

Desirable:

  • Experience in the building services industry is considered an advantage

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sustainability consultant

Sustainability Consultant

Job Description

Job Title: Sustainability Consultant
Directly reports to: Sustainability Director
No of Direct Reports: 0
Location: UK Wide

Position Summary:

To produce of sustainable building services solutions on individual projects.   Be a proactive member of the sustainability team.  Contribute to the development of the sustainability team assisting with research.

Responsibilities and authority:

  • Carry out the responsibilities of a Sustainability Consultant including delivery of Energy Strategies for new buildings to achieve compliance with energy and carbon targets; Delivery of IES energy and thermal models and the output reporting as required, including EPC’s
  • Adopt a responsible attitude to and actively undertake training
  • Regularly review personal programme workload. Develop and frequently review priority lists of programmed tasks
  • Ensure application and maintenance of all Quality System procedures
  • Carry out all personal management duties including weekly recording of man-hour commitments to individual projects
  • Comply with all security procedures and commercial in-confidence restrictions associated with work duties
  • Contribute to the maintenance of the highest possible standards of design and reporting by developing a good working knowledge of proven building services systems and new developments in the Building Services industry
  • To contribute to ensuring operations are conducted in accordance with the relevant ISO and national legislation
  • To ensure contract compliance with the Integrated Management System, by supporting the administration of the Internal Audit programme, corrective action and customer feedback registers
  • To comply with strategy and actions which encourage and produce a safe working environment for all staff and which reduce the impact to the environment

Education and Experience:

  • Educated to degree level in a related discipline

Specific skills, knowledge, competencies and training

Essential:

  • Excellent communication skills, coupled with a flexible and proactive approach to work
  • Knowledge of low carbon building services design
  • Competent IES User – preferably Level 5 Qualified Accredited Energy Assessor
  • Knowledge of BREEAM, HQM and WELL assessments
  • The ability to produce and review high quality reports to predefined deadlines
  • The successful candidate will be required to deliver reports for clients and so attention to detail, reliability, good organisational skills are paramount
  • Ability to confidently attend external design team meetings and workshops, delivering expertise and advice in relation to sustainable building services solutions
  • Happy to work in local office and travel to other offices when required

Desirable:

  • Experience in the building services industry an advantage
  • BREEAM and WELL assessor

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sustainability consultant

Senior Sustainability & Energy Consultant, UK

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Sustainability & Energy Consultant
Directly reports to: Sustainability Director
No of Direct Reports: 0
Location: UK Wide

Position Summary:

To manage and lead the delivery of sustainable building services solutions on individual projects; to be a proactive member of the sustainability team; to contribute to the resource allocation of sustainability requirements as project work demands; contribute to the development of the sustainability team with marketing and fee bids and keeping up to date with current Legislation and Planning Policies.

Responsibilities and authority:

  • Delivery of Energy Strategies for Planning Applications
  • Lodgement of SAP calculations
  • Lodgement of non-domestic and domestic EPCs
  • Delivery of Sustainability Statements for Planning Applications
  • Knowledge of BREEAM / WELL
  • Knowledge of Home Quality Mark (HQM)
  • Thermal modelling to Level 5 (preferred)
  • Knowledge of façade performance and U-value calculations
  • Knowledge of Energy Auditing and Assessment
  • Knowledge of daylight calculations
  • Input into fee proposals

Education and Experience:

  • Educated to degree level in a related discipline

Specific skills, knowledge, competencies and training

Essential:

  • Knowledge of residential and non-residential energy modelling
  • BREEAM Assessor
  • Presentation skills
  • Ensure that the Quality System procedures are adhered to
  • Responsible attitude and actively undertake training
  • Lead external workshops and design team meetings
  • Carry out surveys of existing facilities and preparation of reports

Desirable:

  • Knowledge of Mechanical and Electrical design
  • Knowledge of RIBA stages of work
  • Chartership
  • Level 5 IES thermal modelling accreditation
  • BREEAM / WELL AP
  • Knowledge of BSRIA scope of works

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environmental engineering consultancy

Electrical Engineer, Aberdeen

Job Description

Job Title:  Electrical Engineer
Directly reports to: Senior Engineer / Associate
No of Direct Reports: 0
Location: Aberdeen

Position Summary:

To support the Senior/Associate Engineer(s) in producing robust design solutions including drawing and written deliverables with moderate supervision.

Responsibilities and authority:

  • Produce Electrical Design drawings, calculations (Amtech, Hevacomp, IES, Relux, Dialux, MEPWorx), reports, specifications and schedules
  • Contribute to BREEAM or equivalent legislation
  • Contribute to Building Regulations Section 6 compliance modelling
  • Witness test the proving and commissioning procedures of final installations
  • Assist the development of trainee engineers
  • Work to internal and external project programs effectively
  • Work to company Quality Assurance management systems
  • Support Senior/ Associate Engineers and Management

Education and Experience:

  • Engineering degree preferred. Minimum Engineering HNC/D or equivalent qualification.
  • Previous experience in a Building Services consultancy required.

Specific skills, knowledge, competencies and training

Essential:

  • Competent in AutoCad and knowledge of Revit
  • Communicate effectively with internal and external design team members
  • Undertake non-intrusive surveys of existing installations
  • Undertake main plant area spatial allowance exercises
  • Ensure industry knowledge is kept up to date with new legislation, standards and regulations, product development and new technology
  • Attend and contribute to design team and project meetings
  • Collaborate and work effectively with all others affecting or affected by your work
  • Carry out all personal management duties including weekly timesheets
  • Comply with all security procedures and commercial in-confidence restrictions associated with work duties

Desirable:

  • Study towards Chartership and maintain CPD requirements
  • Quality checking/review of trainee staff work and equivalent grade engineers
  • Liaise with lead and/or support engineers to ensure that discipline designs are completed to expected quality and programme

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