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Job DescriptionStart here. Grow here.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.
What you'll do! - 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.
Come grow with us:And let's not forget about the perks at AECOM. You'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customized to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.
QualificationsReady to push the limits of what's possible? 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.
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About AECOMAECOM is the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle - from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you're working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.
You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion - a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We're the world's trusted global infrastructure firm, and we're in this together - your growth and success are ours too.
Join us, and you'll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
