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Principal Sustainability Consultant, London
Client:
Hydrock
Location:
London, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Consulting
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Reference:
29e45475e8e5
Job Views:
73
Posted:
18.02.2025
Expiry Date:
04.04.2025
Job Description:
Hydrock are recruiting for a Principal Sustainability Consultant to join our highly influential Smart Energy and Sustainability team! You’ll be part of our collaborative and growing team across the UK and will help with the development and delivery of a pipeline of exciting and complex projects.
From local authorities to universities, and from masterplan developers to asset managers, we’re proud to be shaping the approach that organisations are taking to decarbonisation and a climate resilient future.
We have a true enthusiasm for what we do. If you do too, we’d love to hear from you.
As an inclusive employer we are open to flexible working arrangements to suit personal circumstances. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and walks of life.
So, what will you be responsible for?
* Working with client teams to identify opportunities for sustainable design measures and energy and carbon reduction initiatives including hosting project workshops and attending meetings.
* Highlighting the most impactful areas of influencing decision-makers to foster improvement and identifying value drivers.
* Preparation of high-quality energy, sustainability, and climate change reporting to provide advice to clients and project teams and support planning applications and masterplan developments.
* Effective data management including setting up and maintaining project databases and calculation sheets.
* Participating in relevant external expert forums to advance and standardise environmental sustainability performance quantification.
* Training and upskilling junior team members on relevant workstreams and project management activities.
* Regional business development activities and sales generation.
* Ability to be (or develop to be) a technical leader under the sustainability team for building environmental modelling/building physics/sustainability related aspects (day/sun, energy modelling, overheating).
To succeed in this role, you’ll need:
* Hold a relevant degree, BEng (Hons) or BSc (Hons) or equivalent/higher.
* Previous experience working as a consultant and can evidence experience within project delivery, client engagement, project management, financial and people management.
* Comprehensive understanding of building environmental design / sustainability in the built environment.
* A proven track record of working within building environmental modelling, building physics and other sustainability models such as daylight/sunlight, energy modelling and overheating.
* Experience delivering planning reports against Greater London Authority (GLA) policy requirements and detailed knowledge of applying GLA policy in different contexts.
* Comprehensive understanding of built environmental design and sustainability within the built environment.
* Fully conversant within IES modelling, including; Radiance, ApacheSIM, SBEM and Macroflow. Knowledge of Apache HVAC would be advantageous but is not essential.
* Experience working with master planning and planning across a range of asset classes (ideally mixed-use projects).
* A strong client base of developers, planning consultants, architects and propcos.
We are also keen to know if you can offer any of these attributes:
* Hold chartership / membership of relevant technical institution(s) (e.g., RITP, RIBA, EI, IEMA, IEEM etc.).
* Familiarity with Climate risk assessment.
* Biodiversity net gain and nature-based solutions.
* Other wider related experience (for example renewables sector).
What we can offer you:
* Inspiring and supportive colleagues.
* Reward for progression and hard work.
* An opportunity to develop your soft skills, as well your technical skills.
* Excellent health benefits.
* 25 days of holiday (buy/sell up to five days), accrue 1 day extra every 2 years, with bonus holidays too!
* An earlier finish on Friday (4pm!).
* An opportunity to give back: “Day off for good cause” (on a workday).
* A huge range of flexible benefits, including climate perks and an EV car leasing scheme.
A place to feel included:
We champion diversity, equity and inclusion. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we commit to supporting our employees and ensure we create a safe environment that nurtures you to perform at your best. Offering our people flexibility is an important factor in achieving this aim.
We consider all applications individually with the required qualifications and knowledge without regard to any of the. We would like to provide everyone with a fair selection, assessment and employment experience so we ask that candidates are made aware of any physical or neurodiverse condition within your application for which appropriate reasonable adjustments can be made by us.
Looking for the next steps?
Once you have completed your application through our careers site, we aim to review and respond to you as soon as your application’s been reviewed.
If shortlisted, a member of our Talent Acquisition Team will call you for an initial pre-screen by phone (typically 30 minutes) to help us assess your motivations and interest in the position and Hydrock.
If you progress following this telephone pre-screen, you will be invited to attend a formal interview by video conference (Microsoft Teams) or in our offices.
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