LOCATIONS

Brighton, United Kingdom / Bristol, United Kingdom / Cambridge, United Kingdom / Edinburgh, United Kingdom / Leeds, United Kingdom / London, United Kingdom / Manchester, United Kingdom

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Are you motivated to work alongside our talented decarbonisation team to support our water sector clients plan and deliver projects and programmes of work differently while meeting their decarbonisation ambitions? Are you passionate about sustainability and eager to support the water sector, become Net Zero and resilient to climate change? Do you enjoy working within multidisciplinary teams to create pathfinding decarbonisation programmes? Then we want to hear from you.
The role will be in the Decarbonisation Team which sits in the wider Climate Change and Sustainability Business for our Europe Region. senior consultant, you will initially focus working for our UK water sector clients and play a key role in helping them shape and embed decarbonisation programmes and help us grow our decarbonisation services in AMP8. You will also be responsible to be encouraged to collaborate with our resilience, sustainability and asset management teams to provide more systemic and innovative thinking to our clients to help them meet their current investment and delivery challenges in a more sustainable manner.
As senior consultant, you will be able to lead the delivery of the technical and environmental aspects of your projects and you will have full support from more experienced members of our team. You will also be responsible to provide guidance to early career professionals in our teams. This will involve supporting our project principals develop and deliver for our clients decarbonisation strategies, low carbon design integration, undertake and/or oversee qualitative and quantitative whole life carbon assessments among other activities.
Our clients are facing significant challenges from climate change, population growth and need to change business practices quickly whilst managing sustainable growth expectations. In the UK Water sector there is significant pressure to decarbonise the delivery of nearly a £100bn of capital investment over the next 5 years, which is needed to resolve some of important regulatory drivers such as sewerage spills into the environment and improve the resilience of services. Additionally, water companies have set their own carbon reduction levels of ambition. We are in a unique position supporting most UK water companies define and deliver their decarbonisation efforts.
We are looking for professionals with experience within the water sector to join our UK team, who understand our sector’s regulatory challenges and who have a strong understanding and/or demonstrable experience in the fields of decarbonisation and/or wider sustainability. Your experience can be in a consultant, asset owner/operator, contractor or other parts of the water sector value chain.
The ideal candidate will be a self-motivated individual with a passion for building a career in solving complex challenges in infrastructure. You will have the motivation to embrace additional areas of learning in climate change, systems thinking, nature or circular economy, to ensure that we offer comprehensive and technically excellent advisory services to our UK water sector clients.
We want to hear from you if you meet some of our requirements, there is some flexibility in this role within our growing team.

EQUALITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

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