Senior/Associate Sustainability Consultant

What’s the purpose of the role?  

Sustainability Consultants work across a broad range of consulting projects in Poland and internationally. The work delivered by the team relies on broad holistic and integrated thinking combined with strong and grounded knowledge around the built environment - underpinned by data, experience and informed analysis.

To help continue driving our offer to the next level we require ambitious and enterprising consultants with a focus on applying their skills on strategic corporate and masterplanning projects, with a focus on decarbonisation of the built environment. Desirable specialist skills include:

• Experience of producing decarbonisation strategies/pathways for buildings, campuses, or organisations
• Knowledge or experience of technical and economic appraisal of low carbon technologies
• Knowledge or experience of delivering sustainability accreditations for projects (i.e. LEED, BREEAM, WELL, PassivHaus Quality Homes Standard, etc.)
• Capable of advising clients and project leaders on the technical and economic performance of a range of low carbon energy, water and waste infrastructure solutions, sustainable measures, technologies and holistic solutions for building, masterplan and policy projects
• Production of analytical and visually appealing reports and presentations to clearly communicate outcomes of analysis and recommendations

A detailed overview of your responsibilities is as follows…

• Exuding passion and enthusiasm for the built environment to support human outcomes and fair distribution of value
• Sustainability project and service support
• Task leadership and direction / mentorship of more junior team members
• Technical and economic analysis of decarbonisation strategies
• Providing written comments and producing reports and presentations with excellent visual and grammatical quality.
• Working as part of multidisciplinary teams (including, but not limited to attending meetings with architects, planners, government agencies and clients)
• Formulating external presentations for outreach and business development

You will be a passionate sustainability practitioner with experience in the construction/built environment sector; you will ideally be able to demonstrate the following...

• Experience in a comparable sustainability consulting role with a focus on the built environment 
• Ideally some specialist knowledge in one or more of the following areas; Energy and Carbon; Building Performance
• Ability to communicate in an effective and confident manner
• Working knowledge of sustainable design techniques, analysis or modelling relevant to the construction industry or corporate strategies
• Experience of undertaking technical analysis, and the development of suitable responsive strategies
• Working knowledge of relevant Polish policy and regulation (or equivalent)
• Experience producing high quality graphical and written outputs

It would also be advantageous if you could demonstrate the following...

• Strong facilitation and team working skills and a drive to deliver outstanding results
• Assessment system qualifications (e.g. LEED, BREEAM, WELL) and evidence of practical competence of their application
• Experience with thermal modelling in IES and/or assessment of systems within EnergyPro

• Stability of employment (employment contract) combined with flexibility (flexible work schedule and possibility to work partly remotely)
• Excellent office location in the centre of Warsaw and well-designed office space
• Private medical care (Medicover) 100% financed by the employer
• Multisport Plus card subsidized in 50% or points in MyBenefit Cafeteria
• Employee Capital Plans (PPK)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Free access to a language learning platform for English and German (levels A1-C2) as well as on-site classes with a lecturer
• Internal trainings and workshops, webinars and hackatons
• Holiday benefit
• The programme for recommending candidates for employment (cash bonus)
• Jubilee awards
• Short Fridays and integration events in the spring and summer time

Be you at Buro Happold

Buro Happold is proud to be a practice of a diverse range of professionals. We actively promote inclusivity to enable every individual to reach their full potential, the more inclusive we are the better our work will be.

We are working to change the lack of representation of minority groups in the built environment, and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.

Important information:

Please note Buro Happold will never ask for payment to register or apply for a role.

Buro Happold actively promotes inclusion across the practice to enable every individual to reach their full potential. Read our Equal employment opportunity statement to find out more.

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