Sustainability Consultant/

Your next role

• Exuding passion and enthusiasm for the built environment to support human outcomes and fair distribution of value
• Sustainability project and service support
• Task leadership and direction / mentorship of more junior team members
• Production of technical guidance and analysis to influence policy, corporate strategies and urban planning.
• Providing written comments and producing reports and presentations with excellent visual and grammatical quality.
• Working as part of multidisciplinary teams (including, but not limited to attending meetings with architects, planners, government agencies and clients)
• Formulating external presentations for outreach and business development purposes.

Your skills & experience

You will be a passionate sustainability practitioner with experience in the construction/built environment sector; you will ideally be able to demonstrate the following…

• Experience in a comparable sustainability consulting role with a focus on the built environment;
• Ideally some specialist knowledge in one or more of the following areas; Energy and Carbon; Building Performance; Natural Capital; Climate Resilience; External Environments; Health & Wellbeing; Social Value; Circular economy.
• Ability to communicate in an effective and confident manner
• Working knowledge of wellbeing and sustainable design techniques, analysis or modelling relevant to the construction industry or corporate strategies
• Experience of undertaking technical analysis, and the development of suitable responsive strategies
• Working knowledge of relevant UK policy and regulation (or equivalent)
• Experience producing high quality graphical and written outputs
• Experience in sustainability strategy development (buildings and/or masterplans)
• Assessment system qualifications (e.g. LEED, BREEAM, WELL) and evidence of practical competence of their application.

It would also be advantageous if you could demonstrate the following…

• Strong facilitation and team working skills and a drive to deliver outstanding results

What we offer you

• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Attractive salary and benefits package including life assurance and income protection.
• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
• Generous company pension scheme.
• Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts
• Enhanced parenthood leave policies
• 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month
• A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.
• Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
• A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities.
• An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional.

Our inclusive team welcomes applications from those seeking flexible or part-time working.