Senior/principal Sustainability Consultant

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This is a brand-new role and prominent position in our talented, successful, and rapidly growing Renewable Energy and Utility Management team in Scotland.

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. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and walks of life.

**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
- Managing and developing key client relationships
- Commercial management of projects
- Resource management for the team
- Team leadership, recruitment and development
- Line management of a portion of the overall team, which you can grow significantly

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:

- Glasgow
- Edinburgh

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.

We have a true enthusiasm for what we do. If you do too, we’d love to hear from you.

Sounds good? This is Smart Energy & Sustainability

**So, what are we about?**

This is the elevator pitch. 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.

**Our work includes**:

- Renewable energy and battery storage development and consultancy
- Unlocking challenges around utilities constraints
- Net-zero carbon studies at project and master planning levels
- Feasibility and business case assessment of heat decarbonisation and heat networks
- Climate change studies
- ESG strategy
- Life-Cycle Carbon and Cost Analyses (LCCA)
- Carbon management verification

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.

Most importantly, you’ll find us a lively, good-spirited team, excited about what we’re doing and enjoying each other’s company, and we’ll be sure to give you a warm welcome too.

**So, what will you be responsible for?**

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.

Your key responsibilities (as per the first set of bullet points above) will be to support in the following areas. Please note that we aren’t expecting you to have first-hand experience of everything listed. We expect you’ll bring significant expertise in some and a desire to gain experience in any areas you’re less familiar with.
- Overseeing delivery of consultancy projects including Solar PV, battery storage and wind at all scales both Behind and In-Front of the Meter
- Viability assessments and feasibility studies
- Power engineering strategies
- Power capacity and resilience assessments
- Project management
- Financial modelling and revenue forecasting
- Technical, economic and environmental risk management.
- Advising clients on planning, procurement, tendering and implementation
- Developing scopes and fee proposals
- Liaising with specialist sub-consultants
- Supporting the wider division on utilities/energy infrastructure, masterplanning and carbon management.

**To succeed in this role, you’ll need**:

- A passion for net zero, innovation and low car