Associate / Senior Sustainability Consultant/

Bryden Wood London is looking for Associate/Senior Sustainability Consultant to join our dynamic and growing international architectural team. You will work closely with Architects and Engineers to develop complex, innovative, exciting projects.

JOB PURPOSE:

Reporting to Director(s) and Head of Sustainability. You will be responsible for the overall delivery of sustainability projects, ensuring that a high standard of technical advice and general professional conduct is maintained at all times and in accordance with Bryden Wood standards and procedures.

JOB ROLE:

The role requires the Associate/Senior to liaise with clients and colleagues to deliver projects with the highest sustainability credentials. The Associate/Senior will demonstrate management attributes including ownership of relationships and projects, to be a strong team player, be a professional with a proven ability to think creatively, and act tactically and efficiently with successful delivery of design projects. The Associate/Senior must have a good awareness of the company’s culture and core values and lead by example.

The Associate is also involved in the following:

• Communications and networking
• Administration and co-ordination of the team (some elements)
• Financial accounting and reporting (some elements).

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

Leadership and managing responsibilities

• Participate and run project sustainability workshops, and seminars
• Maintain regular contact with existing Clients and build on existing relationships
• Maintaining communication with line manager and directors, keeping them informed of progress and seeking assistance to address project delivery and client issues.
• Support the Head of Sustainability in team management, client management and communication, fee proposals and resourcing
• Represent Bryden Wood in design team meetings and client meetings
• Contribute to group leadership
• Support and mentoring junior staff
• Encourage awareness and enforce compliance with company standards and procedures

Technical responsibilities

• Recommend sustainable strategies for projects, including energy, carbon, wellbeing, water, waste, materials and circular economy.
• Support the development of analytical frameworks of the economic, environmental and social issues in buildings, cities and large area masterplans
• Manage and evaluate energy and carbon flows and impacts of design options for projects
• Manage and co-ordinate embodied carbon calculations
• Manage and co-ordinate energy, daylight, solar and thermal comfort simulations
• Working with the group to produce, technical information, reports, presentations, graphics and digital models
• Develop new tools, procedures and methodologies to assess environmental impacts and apply them to our projects