Principal Sustainability Consultant

4 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Turner & Townsend Full time

Company Description
- At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference - we are committed to delivering Sustainable Net Zero outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society._
- Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious Net Zero programmes from over 112 offices worldwide._

**Job Description**:
We are seeking experienced and highly motivated sustainability specialists at Principal level to work in our Sustainability Unit to support service delivery across a range of programmes in our Defence & Infrastructure division. The roles will seek to offer high impact consultancy support across the wide range of sustainability services as part of our expanding capability offering.

These positions offer exciting opportunities to work with our high-profile clients as part of a large cross-cutting team within Turner & Townsend. The roles are based in the Sustainability Team of Turner & Townsend Consulting.

**Accountabilities (Deliverables)**
- Provide Principal level consultancy, project management and delivery services in one of more of the following disciplines: Net Zero Carbon, Planning and Sustainability Appraisal/Environmental Impact Assessment, Design for Environment/BREEAM, Circular Economy, Climate Resilience, Natural Capital, Sustainable Procurement, Social Value, Life Cycle Analysis and Sustainability Training/Culture & Behaviours.
- Effectively manage the provision of sustainability services to deadlines and budget as part of a cross-functional team within Turner & Townsend and with partner consultancies.
- Provide a leading role in supporting our clients to develop and deliver sustainability strategies across projects and programmes throughout the asset lifecycle, including scoping, business case, procurement, contract management/troubleshooting, monitoring & verification
- Develop internal stakeholder relationships with other parts of Turner & Townsend, liaising with Key Account Managers and Sector Leads with a view to developing business opportunities and strategic pursuits.

**Responsibilities (Duties)**
- Developing net zero strategies, whole building or estate efficiency strategies,
- Energy efficiency consultancy - including through audits and technical advice, Energy efficiency and carbon emissions reductions for existing assets
- Providing consultancy services to the client on Energy Performance Contracts
- Natural Capital delivery and biodiversity assessment and planning
- Climate Resilience and Risk Planning and mitigation
- Support to planning through EIA/Sustainability Appraisal
- Implementation of Design for Environment capability including BREEAM/DREAM/LEED
- Delivery of Sustainable Procurement and Social Value programmes through supply chain management
- Delivery of Environmental Management Systems and ISO14001 compliance and certification
- Establishment and rollout of Sustainability Behavioural change programmes, capacity building, training and cultural change campaigns

Senior level experience in programme and project management and leadership, strategy/project delivery experience in the built environment, Coordinating activities across various partners and Working as part of multi-disciplinary teams would be beneficial.

A key competency and skillset for all our people is to ensure client requirements are effectively identified, scoped and delivered to high quality standards

**Qualifications**:
**Qualifications**:

- Security clearance for working in the Defence sector highly desirable (with current or lapsed clearance)
- Project management qualification (desirable)
- Professionally qualified member of a recognised institution, ideally at Chartered level (e.g. IEMA / CIBSE / CIWEM or similar (desirable)

**Knowledge / Experience**
- Significant experience of delivering sustainability support for clients is essential ideally with experience in the defence, sector
- Experience of working in Real Estate and/or manufacturing/industrial sectors, in particular for energy
- Strong understanding of the defence sector operation and challenges when it comes to reducing carbon emissions from the defence estate
- Good working knowledge of relevant environmental legislation and climate and sustainability issues
- Familiarity with Energy Performance Contract, tendering and contract management (desirable)
- Strong demonstrable project management experience
- Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams and matrix management organisations on major projects and programmes
- Excellent communication including writing and presentation skills - including ability to communicate with clients and other key stakeholders on global, national and regional issues
- Able to build strong, professional client relationships and proactively identifies and resolves client’s issues
- Confident leading and working alone or as part of a team, with ability to adapt as required
- Attention to detail in servic



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