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Sustainability Consultant – Sellafield/Blencathra House (please note - we will require you to travel to Sellafield/Blencathra House at least 1-2 days a week. Travel and accommodation is covered for the successful candidate)
Plan Zero is Mitie's initiative to make net-zero carbon happen. Our knowledge of customer estates, combined with our ability to execute a zero-carbon strategy from assessment through to delivery is, we believe, unrivalled. Our customers include the biggest organisations in the UK and to date we have saved them over 353,000 tonnes of carbon.
We believe every organisation has a responsibility to act to reduce their impact on the planet and we are recruiting talented, passionate people to help us make Plan Zero happen.
www.planzerocarbon.com
How you will make Plan Zero happen
Mitie is passionate about bringing about positive change for our customers and aspires to be their decarbonisation partner as they embark on the journey to Net Zero and Zero Environmental Harm. Plan Zero supports clients decarbonise their energy, their buildings, and their transport operations, and you will play a key part in this mission by being part of the embedded team. We place skilled experts into our clients' own teams and management structures, adapting to their culture and values, to bring about sustainable change.
What will you do day to day?
The Sustainability Consultant will report to the Embedded team, while working closely with all members of the Plan Zero Consulting team and other relevant teams, as required by individual projects. You will be expected to deliver billable consultancy services to new and existing customers as required by specific engagements.
For this role, we are seeking a candidate who can travel easily and regularly to Cumbria for multiple day visits.
Typical advice you would be providing our clients includes:
* Coordinating multiple programmes to help clients achieve their sustainability objectives and KPIs.
* Leading Mitie-led projects to build and maintain Management Systems, objectives programme, audits and create positive outcomes.
* Supporting the structuring and preparation of client proposals on embedded and other plan zero services
* Advising clients on sustainability initiatives and programmes.
* Managing and mentoring junior consultants and analysts within project delivery teams to aid their personal and professional development.
* Reviewing work and outputs from more junior team members.
* Structuring and reviewing data models to assess customer databases on carbon, waste, compliance, and reporting.
* Identifying solutions to reduce their environmental risks, carbon emissions and pollutants from across Plan Zero.
* Building close and trusted relationships with clients, adapting to their culture and values.
* Producing impactful reports with findings and recommendations.
* Educating customers on climate change, environmental compliance and decarbonisation through client presentations and workshops.
Qualifications
* Desirable to have work experience or volunteering in a relevant field, such as ESG, Environmental Management or Sustainability.
Experience & Skills
* Experience of working with clients and building trusted long-term relationships both with customers and internal stakeholders
* Clear understanding of decarbonisation challenge and implications for private and public companies
* Understanding of sustainability frameworks, such as ISO Standards and the GHG Protocol.
* Working knowledge of decarbonisation technologies including Energy Efficiency measures, Solar PV, Heat Pumps, EV Charging Infrastructure
* Understanding of embodied carbon, and calculation methodologies is preferable
* Lead Auditor qualification in either ISO 9001, 14001, 45001 or 14001 is ideal but not required.
* Good commercial acumen and understanding of producing project budgets and delivering against them
* Excellent English written and oral communication skills
* Excellent IT skills in particularly sound knowledge of Microsoft Windows (Word, Excel, Power Point, Power BI)
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
Since 1987, Mitie’s 68,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.
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