Graduate Carbon Consultant

**Do you have what it takes to transform society?**

Are you looking for the opportunity to use your skills to demonstrate low carbon leadership and help tackle climate change? We are looking for a talented and motivated individual to join our award-winning Carbon Team.

Working within Sweco’s Energy, Water and Environment Division, reporting to the Carbon Team Lead, this exciting **Graduate Carbon Consultant** role involves assessing whole life carbon emissions from a wide range of project designs across all Sweco sectors, and supporting organisations in quantifying their carbon emissions. All with a view to bringing about measurable improvements supporting our clients as they transition to a net zero economy.

**In this role you will be responsible for**:

- Undertaking detailed carbon emission calculations (embodied, operational and end-user) on a range of infrastructure and buildings projects.
- Producing technical design deliverables (calculations, drawings, assessments, etc) to achieve low carbon solutions.
- Clearly and concisely reporting results, including contributions to Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Climate chapters.
- Consulting with design teams to investigate carbon reduction opportunities.
- Supporting businesses with carbon reporting and decarbonisation strategies.
- Providing regular progress feedback to the team leader to assist in project delivery.
- Ensuring tasks are carried out and completed in accordance with the agreed scope of works, timescales and budgets.
- Working in close collaboration with colleagues from other disciplines as required to deliver project requirements.

**To be successful in this role, you will**:

- Have a science or preferably engineering based academic background.
- Be able to demonstrate your commitment to carbon reduction.
- Understand the role of climate change prevention in a wider sustainability context.
- Be highly numerate and have strong report writing and communication skills.
- Have a good knowledge of climate change science, targets and policy.
- Be familiar with carbon management methodologies and standards such as PAS 2060, PAS 2080, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and ISO 14064.
- Be familiar with sustainability accreditations such as BREEAM or CEEQUAL (preferred).

**Professional Membership and Qualifications**:

- First or Upper Second Class Degree.
- Be prepared to work towards formal training with a suitable professional body.

**Personal Qualities**:

- Able to work independently and as part of a team.
- Inquisitive, enthusiastic, diligent and determined.
- Able to communicate in a fluent and positive manner with other team members and to produce reports in clear English.
- Able to organise and prioritise own workload to ensure that timescales are met.
- Good problem solving/contingency planning skills with ability to find quick, innovative and practical solutions.
- Take responsibility for personal development and enable and support the learning of others.
- Project a professional image to clients and colleagues..
- Able to work collaboratively with others to form strong positive working relationships with colleagues, clients and contractors
- Demonstrate pride in work, through accurate, timely delivery.

If you believe you have the skill set required, are keen to join a business with genuine opportunities for career progression, then we’d love to hear from you.

**About Us**

Transforming society together, we're planning and designing sustainable communities and cities of the future.

Solving the great societal challenges of our time is more relevant, demanding and inspiring than ever before. At Sweco, we bring together experts with different perspectives and skills to develop solutions that address the challenges of urbanisation, harness the positive power of digitalisation and make societies more sustainable.

We offer our clients a combination of global expertise and local presence, adapted to their business and reality. Our ambition is to be our clients’ most relevant partner, working together to help them solve their challenges, today and into the future.

Sweco is committed to enabling all its colleagues to achieve a great balance between work and their other priorities, such as caring responsibilities, leisure activities, further learning or other interests. We offer flexible start and finish times, part time and hybrid working options so that you can flex your hours around your day to day needs.

**Equality, Diversity & Inclusion**

It’s important to us that that all our colleagues thrive at work - we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture which respects the contribution individuals can bring to Sweco. We aim to promote equality, inclusivity and diversity for everyone.

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