Associate Director - Sustainability

Description

• Project and service support (including managing a portfolio of projects and contributing to the development of new service offers)
• Shape the design of buildings to achieve net zero carbon targets, whilst still delivering a high-quality internal environment that promotes occupant wellbeing.
• 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.
• Representing our sustainability & physics offer at business development meetings in Manchester alongside colleagues.
• Providing written comments and producing reports and presentations with excellent visual and grammatical quality.
• Leading and growing our Net Zero Carbon and Building Performance team in Manchester
• Project leadership and direction/mentorship of junior team members.
• Work independently, lead bids, mentor and line manage junior staff
• Presenting to clients and design teams

Requirements

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

Benefits

• Hybrid working arrangements.
• 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
• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
• Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts
• 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.
• 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month
• Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
• 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.
• Enhanced parenthood leave policies
• Generous company pension scheme.
• Work winning and supporting partners and directors with key relationships

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance