Sustainability Engineer - London, Bicester or Newcastle

RED are an expanding international M&E consultancy, with a proven track record in low energy design, focused on providing excellent design solutions to clients.

Through our market leading technical expertise, we enable the world’s digital infrastructure and develop the built environment whilst also helping clients realise ambitious plans for zero carbon-built environments. We cover the entire life cycle of any building project, with our broad capability offering saving our clients time, money, and effort. Our approach is centred around listening to our clients and interacting energetically with our fellow project stakeholders. We add value with our people, client service ethos, global delivery strategy, technical ability, and attitude.

We now seek a Sustainability Engineer to be based in one of our UK offices: London, Bicester or Newcastle.

Role Responsibilities

• Making sustainability happen today
• Train to become a LEED assessor.
• Supporting and training to lead wide-ranging sustainability appointments under the RIBA Green overlay framework with an emphasis on LEED, BREEAM & other certification schemes
• Issuing of reports, meeting minutes, contractual documentation, calculations, technical reports, presentations and action lists
• Liaising with other offices and delegating work as needed
• Carrying out independent research to support the sustainability team and wider business
• Assisting with project bids and tender preparation and co-ordination with wider bidding and design teams
• Flexibility to assist the SS&CC team and wider business in meeting business/project deadlines

Role Requirements

• Required: LEED GA, LEED AP or good working knowledge of LEED BD+C / ID+C
• Advantage: BREEAM or BREEAM AP experience / qualifications
• Advantageous: Qualified in, a good working knowledge of or working towards qualification in one or more of the following: (WELL, Fitwel, NABERs, ISO 50001/2, ISO 14001 LCEA level 5, EPC, TRUE, DNGB,IES, PAS 2080, LCA etc)
• Educated to degree level or equivalent in engineering / environmental discipline
• 12-18 months’ experience delivering sustainability projects working with external stakeholders
• An understanding of the construction process in the UK
• Understanding of the design & planning process in the UK. Experience of interaction with planners advantageous
• General understanding of Building Services design and industry engineering terms
• Ability to produce high quality written reports
• Ability to work to deadlines and budgets
• Ability to prioritise workload
• Flexibility – to meet deadlines (and know when to push them back) and to travel to site meeting / inspections
• Good knowledge of excel and word/outlook
• Good knowledge of working online remotely from home using MS Teams / Zoom / Chime / Google Docs etc.
• Good knowledge of MS office applications including PowerPoint and publisher
• Working knowledge of Tracker Plus and other project collaboration software such as 4projects
• Ability to present clearly to design teams, in person and over video calls
• Accuracy/excellent attention to detail
• Working knowledge of QA systems and ISO9001/14001/50001 compliance advantageous
• Background in consulting or construction preferred.
• Good understanding of international working and business operations of a global consultancy.
• Understanding of how to embed sustainability into projects in general and follow the principles of the Sustainability guidelines of the Group both at work and beyond
• Act in an ethical manner and follow the principles of the Ethics Charter and Ethics in Practice Guidelines of the Group
• Act in a sustainable manner and follow the principles of the Sustainability guidelines of RED

Benefits

RED offers a variety of benefits, including but not limited to:

• 23 days annual leave rising to 28 days annual leave over 5 years’ service
• Holiday purchase and buy back scheme
• Hybrid Working
• Contributory company pension scheme
• Healthcare Scheme via salary sacrifice (Company funded cover is dependant on level)
• Non-contractual bonus awards
• Training sponsorship
• Charity volunteering leave
• Wellness days/ initiatives.
• Salary commensurate with experience.
• Our people work in friendly teams with a collaborative approach and mentoring support from talented leaders.
• We offer a comprehensive benefits package and are an equal opportunities employer.

*This role will ideally suit those with the right to live & work in the UK without restrictions, as we are unable to offer sponsorship at the present time.