Graduate Sustainability Consultant

at  TFT Consultants

London
An excellent opportunity for a Graduate or Early Career Professional to become part of our friendly and collaborative environment within the Sustainability team. Opportunities for growth and gaining new skills, working for high profile clients and working on exciting projects across various sectors, predominantly commercial, but also retail, residential, and industrial. This role will suit someone keen to establish themselves in a leading consultancy practice and support the growth of our team.
Our Sustainability team is based across the country and works with predominantly commercial clients, via a wide range of disciplines to offer best in class sustainability advice. You will be based in the London office and be part of a supportive team providing specialist resources for current instructions in London, the Southeast and wider locations.
We work across all the stages of a project life cycle offering sustainability services tailored to the needs of our clients, including strategic sustainability frameworks, sustainability co-ordination and specialist studies including net zero roadmaps, Life Cycle Assessments (LCA), circular economy studies and certification (BREEAM, LEED, WELL, NABERS UK).
TFT is passionate about people and providing individually focused career development. Our Sustainability team will support your career and will work to tailor your role to suit your interests in sustainability including sponsoring training opportunities. We encourage your engagement in CPD and knowledge development at industry events, working groups, and attendance at networking events.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• To work with project teams (internal and external) to develop resource efficient/low carbon buildings with circular economy principles.
• Undertake sustainability appraisals of development projects and produce accompanying reports to be submitted for planning.
• Support the sustainability coordination of projects driving innovation and monitoring the integration of a broad range of sustainability aspects into design, construction and operation; including designing for performance, climate resilience, healthy/sustainable materials and circularity, whole life carbon and social value.
• Assist with BREEAM certification projects (or other certification as appropriate), including the pragmatic, cost effective development of design strategies with the project team, validation of evidence submitted, updating tracking record documents, monitoring design development, writing meeting minutes
• Assist with delivery of project specific Net Zero Carbon Roadmaps, decarbonisation strategies.
• Develop a broad understanding of sustainability and climate change issues as they relate to the built environment including application of BREEAM, WELL, DfP, LEED, CREEM and other benchmarking systems.
• Opportunity to undertake Whole Life Carbon and Life Cycle Costing modelling to recommend Embodied Carbon solutions for new and existing buildings (if interested, experienced).

ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Passion for sustainability and general interest in design themes, and UK policy frameworks and benchmarks.
• Undergraduate or post-graduate degree in a related field (Sustainability, Architecture, Building Services etc.).
• General knowledge of the built environment and building materials.
• General understanding of the construction and design process (RIBA stages).
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written).
• Ability to write clear and concise reports (training will be provided for TFT specific reports)

EXPERIENCED IN TWO OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING AREAS WOULD BE AN ADVANTAGE BUT NOT A MUST:

• Ability to communicate, influence, and embed sustainability within a project team.
• Previous relevant experience in sustainable design or experience within a sustainability consultancy.
• Sustainability assessments (BREEAM, HQM, LEED)
• Wellbeing (WELL, Fitwel)
• Circular economy & Embodied carbon (Life cycle assessments, Life cycle costing)
• Energy modelling (EPC, SAP)
• Operational carbon (DfP, NABERS)
• Supporting the sustainability coordination of projects, Net zero roadmaps, decarbonisation strategies

Please refer the Job description for details