UK Decarbonisation Services Lead Existing Buildings

Start here. Grow here.

AECOMs Sustainability & Decarbonisation Advisory (SDA) team are industry leaders in the field of low carbon design and sustainability in the built environment. Our projects range from working with national and local Government to support policy makers to developing energy and sustainability strategies for the design and planning of new buildings and developments or to assisting clients to decarbonise their building portfolios.

We are looking for someone to be a UK lead for our consultancy services for decarbonisation of existing buildings and estates. You will also be the Energy Advisory lead for UK and Ireland for our Buildings & Places business line.

Your role will be to lead and grow our services and revenue in this area reporting into the Head of SDA. You will be expected to be a seller/doer able to win and deliver consultancy and strategic advisory work on the basis of your own expertise and knowledge and by leveraging AECOMs wider national and global pool of expertise and staff resources.

We expect you to work closely with our experts in our 130 SDA team across the UK and Ireland as well as wider AECOM colleagues and external partners to deliver this work.

What youll do! 

• Service line leadership: responsible for developing and delivering an annual business plan for our consultancy services in this area
• Work winning: preparing bids and proposals and responding to tenders to win work
• Collaboration: working with other AECOM teams in SDA and beyond to develop winning bids and to deliver successful projects
• Recruitment and line management: you will be expected to line manage a number of net zero consultants and to recruit additional staff as required to meet growing demand for our services
• Project management and delivery of consultancy services including the management of multidisciplinary teams
• Client engagement: engaging directly with established and new AECOM clients to understand their sustainability challenges and to present and showcase our sustainability and net zero offering
• Thought leadership: preparing thought leadership articles and presenting at key external events to showcase AECOMs expertise in this area

Come grow with us:

And lets not forget about the perks at AECOM. Youll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and wellbeing customized to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a worklife balance that suits your lifestyle technical practice networks AECOM University and volunteering days. 

Qualifications :

Ready to push the limits of whats possible

Requirements:

• Proven track record of winning work to provide sustainability and net zero consultancy services for the built environment
• Significant experience of delivering energy carbon and sustainability consultancy and strategic energy advisory services to a range of private and public sector clients
• Experience of project managing consultancy assignments involving multiple disciplines and/or teams and stakeholders
• An understanding of the UK policy and regulatory framework relating to energy use carbon emissions from and sustainability of buildings
• A detailed knowledge of the measures and systems for reducing carbon emissions within the built environment including energy demand reduction renewable energy generation and low carbon energy supply and demand management options
• Experience of team working in a consultancy environment to deadlines and a fixed budget

Desirable Skills and Knowledge:

• Experience of working with key AECOM public clients in the UK (such as UK Government Universities Health Trusts Network Rail Local Authorities etc.)
• Experience with energy and carbon related policy research and development of regulations and guidance
• Experience with preparing Heat Decarbonisation Plans and/or PSDS applications for public sector clients
• Experience of working with Ministry of Defence sites
• Experience of working with commercial real estate clients to develop GHG emissions baselines sciencebased targets and net zero pathways

Preferred Qualifications:

• A good Bachelors degree in engineering physics or mathematics related discipline (building services and/or energy related qualifications are highly desirable) although strong candidates with other science backgrounds will be considered
• A building sustainability/energy related MSc is desirable
• If not currently chartered should be working towards chartership with a relevant institution (e.g. CIBSE Energy Institute IMechE IEMA)

We celebrate diversity including neurodiversity and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process please contact us at . At AECOM we value everyones unique contributions and perspectives.