Senior Sustainability Consultant

Senior/Principal Sustainability Consultant (Renewable Energy & Utilities)
If you are a Principal or Senior Engineer/Consultant with a strong consultancy background in renewable energy generation and distribution, grid connections, battery storage or electrical building services engineering (MEP), this is an opportunity to join an established team led by Tom Shilton, Associate Director and Leah Holmes develop your career and hone your leadership skills as this team grows in Scotland. You will work alongside Charlie Drysdale, Associate Director responsible for our Smart Energy & Sustainability proposition in Scotland, to grow this team.
As an inclusive employer we are open to flexible working arrangements to suit personal circumstances. While the key focus is work winning, as well as project delivery, this new role is your opportunity to take the lead on:
Overseeing project delivery for your own portfolio of schemes
Commercial management of projects
You can be based in any of these offices, with the flexibility to hybrid work and manage your work and life commitments with our trusting and supportive culture:
In an ever-advancing, volatile and high-growth sector, you will find that our opportunistic, agile and decisive culture will fully enable you to focus most of your time, energy and expertise on really making a difference.
You’ll be welcomed and integrated warmly into our collaborative and ever-expanding team across the UK and will contribute to developing and delivering exciting, cutting-edge and complex projects.
This is Smart Energy & Sustainability
We’re helping clients to unlock cheaper, cleaner and more reliable energy and maximise the potential economic and environmental value of their projects, whilst delivering on wider environmental and sustainability principles. Alternatively, here’s the YouTube pitch.
From local authorities to universities, and from masterplan developers to asset managers and investors, we are proud to be shaping the approach that organisations are taking to decarbonisation and a net-zero future. Smart Energy and Sustainability team (SES) , is the high-growth strategic backbone of our market-disrupting, entrepreneurial and agile business.
Renewable energy and battery storage development and consultancy
Unlocking challenges around utilities constraints
Net-zero carbon studies at project and master planning levels
Planning application support documents including energy strategy and environmental assessments
Feasibility and business case assessment of heat decarbonisation and heat networks
Climate change studies
Our team is a unique blend of engineers and consultants and this means we can deliver a wide range of project inputs for our clients from the earliest inception stages and onwards.
Do you have an infectious and inspiring passion for sustainable design, innovative and low energy solutions is paramount, in addition to understanding the ever-evolving national and local legislative drivers?
You will help us develop our renewable energy and utilities consultancy and project development.
Overseeing delivery of consultancy projects including Solar PV, battery storage and wind at all scales both Behind and In-Front of the Meter
Project management
Financial modelling and revenue forecasting
Technical, economic and environmental risk management.
Advising clients on planning, procurement, tendering and implementation
Supporting the wider division on utilities/energy infrastructure, masterplanning and carbon management.
A passion for net zero, innovation and low carbon solutions is paramount.
Experience in the renewables, electrical MEP or power engineering sector.
Project management experience, including technical leadership of dispersed/remote project teams, in the engineering/energy industry, or perhaps an alternative design or energy modelling background with skills that could be applied to renewables sector.
Ability to work collaboratively and integrate with other disciplines, including structural engineering, building services (MEP), acoustics, fire, utilities, transportation and geo-environmental.
Working knowledge of energy sector and regulatory framework.
Working knowledge of renewable energy / modelling techniques.
Knowledge of or technical ability in energy/renewables related disciplines.
Practical experience of developing or designing renewables/battery storage projects.
Knowledge of energy performance, environmental, legal and financial requirements.
Working knowledge of financial modelling and revenue forecasting.
Experience and working knowledge of the energy market, capacity and grid balancing, demand side response, connection agreements, market business models etc.
We will support your professional development, aligned to your aspirations, interests and emergent markets, technologies or professional qualifications/memberships.
A credible, networked, thought leader at key industry events and conferences.
You will also have the desire to grow and manage a team focused on strategic sustainability services, intrinsic to our strategic plans.
We are a multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy of over 900 staff in 21 offices across the UK. Our driving motivation is to be a ‘Force for Good’, as it is our aim to improve the quality of people’s lives from our employees to our clients, through to the communities we work in and our planet as a whole through the work we do.
From the buildings that surround you, the roads and bridges you cross, all related to the infrastructure that we create, we aim to offer the most sustainable possibilities to shape the places, communities and society that we live in through meeting our client’s needs. Named as Building’s Engineering Consultant of the Year in 2023, we’re known for delivering outstanding sustainable projects for our communities, planet, and society.
Some of these projects have recently received industry accolades, including Cleveland Pools winning the Conservation and Regeneration category at the Construction Excellence South West Awards 2023;Bay Technology Centre named Commercial Project of the Year at the British Construction Industry Awards 2022; Excellent health benefits25 days of holiday (buy/sell up to five days), accrue 1 day extra every 2 years, with bonus holidays too
An earlier finish on Friday (4pm)
An opportunity to give back: “Day off for good cause” (on a workday)
A huge range of flexible benefits, including climate perks and an EV car leasing scheme
We champion diversity, equity and inclusion. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we commit to supporting our employees and ensure we create a safe environment that nurtures you to perform at your best. If shortlisted, a member of our Talent Acquisition Team will call you for an initial pre-screen by phone (typically 30 minutes) to help us assess your motivations and interest in the position and Hydrock, now Stantec.
If you progress following this telephone pre-screen, you will be invited to attend a formal interview by video conference (Microsoft Teams) or in our offices.
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