Carbon Reduction Project Officer

1 month ago

Bangor, United Kingdom Bangor University Full time

Applications are invited for the above permanent full-time post working in Campus Services directorate and in particular with colleagues within the Campus Wellbeing team (which incorporates Corporate Health, Safety and Environmental management) and the Estates Management team.

The University is looking for a committed, knowledgeable and innovative person to coordinate, scope and plan for significantly reducing the institution’s carbon footprint emanating from energy and water use and reducing energy demand.

The post holder will build upon the wealth of existing knowledge and data from within the department and which is available across the University, including amongst academic colleagues.

The University will, over the coming years, be investing several million pounds on improving its estate, increasing sustainable electricity and heat generation, and reducing energy use and our overall adverse carbon impact on the environment.

This is a really exciting role, that can make a real difference; it offers an opportunity to investigate, learn, consult, create and deliver towards a sustainable future.

The ability to communicate in Welsh is desirable for this post.

Applications will also be considered to carry out this role on a part-time or job share basis.

View our Fact Sheet to see what’s in it for you.

Committed To Equal Opportunities

Overview

Campus Services brings together a wide range of staff, student, and public facing functions. It provides a very broad range of services responsible for ensuring that staff and students enjoy their time at the University. Our staff work together to provide a high quality, welcoming, efficient, positive service and working environment, to enable us to excel and better support the University’s excellent teaching and research activity.

Purpose of the Job

This role will be building and infrastructure focused and will emphasise on assessing building utility usage characteristics to identify opportunities for reducing water and electricity consumption, improve energy and thermal efficiency and to reduce our dependency on gas and oil heating. The post holder is not expected to have detailed knowledge of each area and aspect of this exciting role, though they will have the ability to understand the challenges and the opportunities that are ahead of us - as the University strives to reduce adverse carbon impact and achieve Net Zero 2030/50.

Main

**Responsibilities**:

- Research and identify consultants, contractors, advisers and other individuals and organisations to assist you in producing and evaluating carbon and energy reduction schemes for individual buildings, and for the wider estate.- Identify opportunities for increasing sustainable heating, cooling and electricity generation.- Develop funding proposals for projects that will then be submitted to the University and Welsh & UK Governments and work with colleagues to continually improve our design specifications for new buildings and for future major refurbishments.- Help guide carbon neutral / carbon negative specifications of new builds and refurbishment projects.- Investigate and interpret knowledge and data from multiple sources, and then look to identify and work with various colleagues, specialist consultants and contractors to produce deliverable schemes, building by building and across the whole built estate.- It is anticipated that, in due course, you will lead on or be a part of the delivery of many of those schemes, evaluating their success and identifying opportunities to further improve energy use & carbon reduction for the future.- Seek opportunities to reduce mains water consumption and wastewater sent for treatment, and for replacing high energy consuming equipment, improving electrical and heating controls, phasing out gas and oil, improving insulation, installing ground and air source heat pumps, solar, wind and other improvement opportunities.- Generate, with the help of colleagues, a list of priority interventions and the production of Carbon Reduction Plans that will make a real difference.- Connect with external employers, learning from their experiences, and generate your own innovative ideas.- Participate in Higher Education Sector discussions on carbon reduction initiatives and, where appropriate, champion your work and the work of the University in reducing energy demands, increasing use of sustainable heating and cooling- Promote how Bangor University are reducing our adverse impact on the environment.- Play a central role in delivering the University’s transition to a net zero estate, including identifying how this can be achieved.- Prepare compelling business cases and supporting the implementation of appropriate schemes.- Seek funding and partnership opportunities for energy efficiency and carbon reduction schemes, renewables, and wider innovation to achieve net zero.- Support the development of technical solutions and strategies to support Buildings and Infrastructure ac

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