Associate Director

Associate Director - Sustainability
London
Competitive salary + benefits

About us
A fantastic career opportunity has arisen for a creative and driven Associate Director to join our Sustainability Group. The role is based in our London office and will be part of our broader Sustainability group which has a presence in every Hoare Lea office across the country.
We provide a diverse sustainability consultancy service promoting sustainable development for a range of projects, across all sectors. Our Sustainability Group is an industry leader in its approach to sustainability design, construction and building operation. Focused on achieving ever greater standards of environmental sustainability, the Group thrives on its dynamic, innovative, and ambitious working culture.

This is a rare opportunity to grow not only your own career, but the industry approach to your field of expertise as a whole.
Why work for us?

Hoare Lea is an award-winning engineering consultancy with a creative team of engineers, designers, and technical specialists. We provide innovative solutions to complex engineering and design challenges for buildings.
We are engineers of human experiences. Problem solvers who care how a space makes you feel when you step inside – who bring buildings to life. We overcome every challenge with ingenuity, determination, and pride.
We take personal responsibility to achieve a shared vision, combining strong relationships with technical excellence. When we embark on a project journey, we are making a commitment to the client and to each other.

We are committed to demonstrating how positively balancing human-centric design with planet-conscious solutions is the ultimate measure of success through our North Star vision.
Our clients are industry leading, always striving to achieve the best and to push the boundaries of sustainability. We work on a wide range of projects in most sectors. For example, with a focus on human-centred, environmentally sustainable design, Hoare Lea delivered the world’s first workplace fit-out to achieve both BREEAM Outstanding and WELL Certified Gold (One New St Square). 
Our DfP pioneer project (Timber Square) became the UK’s first NABERSUK Design for Performance project to achieve a 5* design reviewed target rating.
At Hoare Lea you’ll have the opportunity to not just work on exciting projects such as these, but to also engage with the industry. Hoare Lea regularly collaborate with UKGBC, CIBSE and were one of the first to sign up to support the Building Services Engineers Declare initiative.
You’ll be part of progressive and exciting projects, able to experience innovative schemes and gain knowledge across all sectors. With a structured Career Paths Framework, you’ll have a clear understanding of the pathway for advancing your career. 

The role

You will be both people-focused and client-centric. This role focuses on overall team leadership, line management, project delivery, technical leadership, and Business Development,
You will be responsible for project leadership of Sustainability workstreams for our most complex projects and responsible for delivery across the team. 

As part of the role you will:

• Take ownership and deliver large scale projects with industry leading clients.
• You will be in a Client facing role, attending project meetings and disseminating the brief within the project team. You will need to be of personable nature and an excellent communicator.
• Manage and prioritise the workload of the team. 
• Report resourcing requirements to the project lead team. 
• Contribute to the development of other team members. 
• Effectively delegate, manage and review work undertaken by others. 
• You will be financially astute and work with the Director to help monitor fee expenditure, resource and work delivered.
• Oversee and lead a range of Sustainable Design analysis workstreams, which may include but not limited to: embodied carbon of materials, circular economy opportunities, building performance simulation, operational energy use, energy generation, overheating. 
• Lead the development of sustainability and energy strategies.
• Lead the delivery of environmental assessments (such as BREEAM, WELL, HQM, etc) from early design stages through to completion. 
• Supporting the drive towards realising net zero whole life carbon in our projects.
• Working with other members of the Sustainability Group on research and development initiatives to allow us to stay at the cutting edge of knowledge in our industry.
• As well as project-related work, the Group engages directly with industry undertaking research and development studies, and authoring industry guidance. The role also presents the opportunity for involvement in this aspect of the Group’s work to those keen to have a direct influence on the industry. 

What we are looking for

Key Skills & Knowledge:
You will have detailed knowledge, competence and qualifications in a selection of the following fields. It is not expected that applicants will have expertise in all of the below topics. Applicants will be expected to have focus areas and detailed knowledge within them and should demonstrate a willingness to gain expertise in other topic areas. 
• Energy strategies
• Building Regulations Part L assessments using Elmhurst and IES
• NABERS UK modelling 
• In-Use energy modelling and assessment
• Dynamic modelling for thermal comfort assessments and overheating risk assessments
• BREEAM and HQM assessments
• Bespoke sustainability charters 
• Health and wellbeing strategies and certification
• Production of planning documents including sustainability statements, energy statements, whole life carbon reports and circular economy statements
• Net zero carbon strategies and embodied carbon calculations
• Circular economy strategies. 

About you:
• Experience working within a sustainability consultancy, you will be looking for a new challenge within a practice at the very forefront of our field. 
• Like us, you will be serious about sustainability.
• You will bring technical expertise (with a degree in an applicable field) and a passion for creating sustainable solutions. 
• You will have an in-depth understanding of London planning requirements
• You will be confident in leading sustainability workshops with design teams. 
• You will relish being part of dynamic team within a progressive and well-respected firm.
• You will have good communication skills and an enthusiasm for working within a team environment.
• Qualified and recognized within the industry with Chartered status 
• You will provide a lead role in an integrated project design team with other construction professionals.
• Experienced team leader/line manager.
• An excellent communicator who enables, promotes, and drives technical excellence for the ultimate benefit of the client.

Our benefits

To reward your hard work and commitment we offer both core and flexible benefits, a competitive salary and industry leading training and development to support you throughout your career. 

Core benefits

• Private medical scheme
• Life Assurance
• Income protection
• Travel allowance
• days annual leave, increasing to with length of service
• Contributory pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced Paternity, Maternity & Shared Parental Leave
• Season Ticket Loans
• Professional membership subscription
• Flexitime

Flexible benefits

• 9-day fortnight – the firm offers all employees the option to work a 9-day fortnight
• Hybrid Working – activity-based approach
• Employee stock purchase plan – a voluntary program which allows eligible employees to purchase Tetra Tech common stock at a % discount
• Holiday buy & sell up to 5 days
• Study Assistance 
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Referral Scheme
• Sabbatical Leave
• Other flexible benefits include gym and retail discounts, travel & dental insurance and GAYE (Give as you Earn)
• Flexible working - We’re happy to discuss flexible working. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage. We particularly welcome part-time/flexible working applications.