Principal Sustainability Consultant

at  AECOM

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Job Description

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AECOM is seeking a Whole Life Carbon Principal Consultant to join our established Sustainable Development Group, to be based in the London office.
The successful candidate will be part of our wider UK Sustainability group, playing a lead role in delivering Whole Life Carbon Assessment (WLCA) services for several major public and private sector clients, helping them to develop and meet decarbonisation targets and ambitions.
Our clients cover a range of building sectors, including public, commercial, domestic, industrial and education. You will need to have experience in delivering whole life carbon assessments and identifying opportunities to significantly reduce carbon emissions across the lifespan of the development.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Good client engagement experience and skills.
• Ability to win work and maintain relationships with clients.
• Experience and knowledge in whole life carbon and embodied carbon in buildings.
• Experience of OneClick LCA or eTool.
• Good knowledge of the building design and construction process.
• A demonstrable passion and enthusiasm for environmental sustainability.
• Experience with undertaking WLC/LCA studies for BREEAM, Greater London Authority (GLA), LEED, or other LCA scoping mechanisms.
  Although the role is quite specific, the successful candidate will be given plenty of opportunities to broaden their knowledge and work across a range of sustainability projects with support and mentoring from technical specialists in the team, as required.
  We are interested in candidates who have come from other design disciplines, such as architecture, façade engineering, structural engineering or services engineering, who wish to become sustainability advisors.
  We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at ReasonableAdjustments@aecom.com. At AECOM, we value everyone’s unique contributions and perspectives.
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• Leading and coordinating our whole life carbon assessment service.
• Preparing and leading tenders and proposals for new work and managing the delivery of assessments.
• Liaising directly with clients and designers to recommend key low carbon measures and support the drive to decarbonisation and net zero.
• Supporting clients in setting suitable decarbonisation targets and outlining a route to achieving these.
• Developing and delivering whole life carbon reduction strategies for a variety of scoping mechanisms (e.g., Greater London Authority, LETI & RIBA, BREEAM etc.).
• Delivering large scale projects with a view to implement low carbon initiatives.