Principal Sustainability Consultant - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Mott MacDonald

Mott MacDonald

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Do you want to work for a company whose purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes, and to transform businesses, communities, and opportunities for it's employees? Mott MacDonald is a global consultancy whose people do exactly that.

The role is an opportunity to work with our multi-disciplinary project design teams on environmental and sustainability assessments and strategies to develop and deliver sustainable design solutions, and will include:

Leading environmental and sustainability teams to deliver sustainability strategies, management plans, Environmental Impact Assessments and Sustainability Appraisals;
Management of specialist teams to produce deliverables such as carbon assessments, climate change risk assessments and biodiversity net gain strategies;
Facilitating sustainability workshops and materiality assessments with clients, industry partners, and project teams;
Being responsible for driving sustainable outcomes and influencing design solutions at a project and programme level;
Managing the implementation of sustainability opportunities from conception through to completion;
Engaging with clients at a senior level;
Supporting local team leaders on business development related activities and resourcing;
People management including coaching and mentoring of junior team members in their career development.
Chartered with a professional institution (e.g. CIWEM, IEMA) (desirable);
Experience using sustainability rating tools such as BREEAM or CEEQUAL (desirable);
Experience interpreting and using climate and carbon data to inform decision making (desirable);
Applied knowledge of UK environmental and sustainability legislation and policy;
Experience working in diverse multidisciplined teams and leading teams to produce environmental and sustainability deliverables to a high standard;
Experience working in client facing environment and ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders to deliver positive outcomes;
Well organised with strong planning and management skills, with ability to produce high quality deliverables and manage budgets and programmes;
Excellent communication skills both written and verbal; and
Ability to problem solve, think creatively, and seek continual improvement.

If you meet 80% or more of what we're looking for, please still apply. We understand not everyone will meet all the requirements, but you might have skills we didn't know we need to support our clients in achieving their net zero carbon commitments

Job Profile

One of the largest employeeowned companies in the world, Mott MacDonald is a multisector consultancy providing engineering, management, and development services on projects in 150 countries. With over 18,000 of the best people working on a diverse range of challenges, we are helping our clients deliver sustainable infrastructure and development solutions. At Mott MacDonald the diversity of the sectors we work in is part of what makes us unique. We are passionate about providing our clients with sustainable solutions by constantly looking at challenges from a fresh angle, and are looking for motivated, forwardthinking individuals to join our expanding teams.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Principal Sustainability Consultant to join our growing Environmental Sustainability Services team (based in Birmingham) within our Water and Environment business.

Our Birmingham office supports both public and private sector clients across the region and nationally, and this is an opportunity to work with our net zero and climate resilience teams to support the development and implementation of sustainability and low carbon design strategies.

In this role there will be opportunities to work on projects across multiple sectors; our team delivers projects across all sectors including Energy, Rail, Transport, Water, Defence and Built Environment.

About the business unit
Environmental and social considerations are central to Mott MacDonald's Purpose and its offerings across all sectors and territories. Our environment and social business provides essential services and innovative solutions which anticipate our clients' needs across all sectors.

How to apply

Mott MacDonald is Work180 accredited - which means we actively support and encourage women to join our work force

Benefits we offer:

Pension matched up to 7%
Life insurance
An annual professional institution subscription
Continuous development opportunities because we want you to thrive
Agile/flexible working because life isn't 9
Enhanced parental leave; shared parental leave policies for parents and care givers
Annual company performance bonus scheme
Subject to company performance
Flexible benefits that suit you, including cycle to work & interest free season ticket loans.
The opportunity to make a difference; learn more about our social outcomes

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