Associate Director Environmental Designer

Description

• Providing written comments and producing reports and presentations with excellent visual and grammatical quality.
• Project and service support (including managing a portfolio of projects and contributing to the development of new service offers)
• Presenting to clients and design teams
• Project leadership and direction/mentorship of junior team members.
• Representing our sustainability & physics offer at business development meetings in Manchester alongside colleagues.
• Formulating external presentations for outreach and business development purposes.
• Working as part of multidisciplinary teams (including, but not limited to attending meetings with architects, planners, government agencies and clients as the project lead) driving and embedding the sustainability and physics agenda within projects.
• Leading and growing our Net Zero Carbon and Building Performance team in Manchester
• Shape the design of buildings to achieve net zero carbon targets, whilst still delivering a high-quality internal environment that promotes occupant wellbeing.
• Work independently, lead bids, mentor and line manage junior staff

Requirements

• QA of deliverables
• Passion for delivering integrated architectural and engineering designs to drive the Sustainability agenda within the built environment
• Proven track record in team leadership, work-winning and external relationship building.
• An outgoing team player with strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, who enjoys engaging with others to find innovative, practicable and deliverable solutions to complex problems.
• First principles understanding of sustainable and low carbon design
• Comfortable working in a deadline-driven environment.
• Deep knowledge of existing and emerging policy and standards for buildings
• Creative mindset with strong graphical communication and ‘story telling’ skills
• Recognised engineering or other STEM based degree level qualification.
• Existing professional network and client base in Manchester
• Possess a minimum of 7 years of expertise in the field.
• Passion for architectural design, sustainability and driving the Net Zero Carbon agenda within the built environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and an engaging presenter.
• Robust working knowledge of Part L, UKNZCBS and NABERS

Benefits

• Hybrid working arrangements.
• 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month
• Enhanced parenthood leave policies
• A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring
• Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
• Work winning and supporting partners and directors with key relationships
• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
• Attractive salary and benefits package including life assurance, income protection and private medical cover.
• Our inclusive team welcomes applications from those seeking flexible or part-time working.
• Generous company pension scheme.
• Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts
• A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance