Graduate Sustainability Consultant & BREEAM Assessor
Start Date: Summer 2024, Accepting applications now.
Are you passionate about sustainable building design and want to join a leading independent sustainability and engineering consultancy?
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Graduate Sustainability Consultant and BREEAM Assessor to join our growing Energy and Sustainability team. Working closely with our M&E and Building Physics team.
Included in Building Magazine’s Top 150 Consultants & Top 50 Engineers list 2021, we have also been included in the Top 50 Employers in Building Magazine’s annual survey for four of the last five years. We are committed to providing the very best to our team and our workplace initiatives ensure that you will have the right resources and skills to achieve your goals.
Your role will include:
- Advising clients on how to reduce the environmental impact of buildings
- Providing BREEAM, HQM and other rating systems advice and assessment to clients and design teams
- Working on a wide variety of projects, with multiple clients, across industry sectors
- Potential for conducting embodied carbon Life Cycle Assessment modelling to assess carbon impact of construction materials on projects using OneClick LCA
- Potential for development into various sustainability services including energy and sustainability statements for planning and energy/water analysis
- Becoming familiar with and keeping abreast of industry/sector initiatives (e.g. LETI, net zero, Building Regulations)
We provide a wide-ranging technical consultancy service with sustainability at the heart of the design process.
The role and responsibilities
- Team player capable of working in a multi-discipline team
- Excellent at planning your own workload and dealing with competing deadlines
- Good communication skills- verbal and written
- A passion for sustainability
- Educated to degree level in Environmental Science, Geography, Sustainability, Engineering or a related discipline
- Knowledge or awareness of BREEAM would be beneficial.
Graduate Training Programme:
Our graduate training is intensive and designed to support graduates during the first few years of employment and beyond, providing graduates with the opportunity to build on existing knowledge, acquire new skills and develop increased responsibilities.
Benefits
- 24 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Flex time and Flex Days
- Discretionary Bonus Scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Company Pension Scheme
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance
- Purchase of up to 10 additional holidays each year taken out of your salary in equal monthly instalments over the year
- Two additional paid days leave, for your birthday (after 5 years) and our ‘Method Bank Holiday’ (Friday before August bank holiday)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Electric Car Scheme
- £500 voucher (after 10 years’ service)
- Long Service Benefits
- Career Development
- Unforgettable Social Events
Qualifications
Educated to degree level in Environmental Science, Geography, Sustainability, Engineering or a related discipline.
To meet with current legislation, at the time of starting their employment, the successful candidate must have permission to work in the UK.
Please send your CV and a chatty letter telling us about your background, why you are interested in the role and how you found out about our vacancy to: mailto:recruitment@methodllp.com