Sustainability Team Leader - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - AECOM

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Job Description:

AECOM's Sustainability team are industry leaders in the field of low carbon design and sustainability in the built environment.

Our projects range from working with national and local Government to support policy makers, to developing energy and sustainability strategies for the design and planning of new developments or to assisting clients to decarbonise their existing buildings and estates.


We are looking to expand our established Building Engineering consultancy team in Scotland by the addition of a team of sustainable and net zero buildings specialists.

We require a
Sustainability Team Leader
who will be based in either our Glasgow
or Edinburgh
office to lead this new_ _**and exciting opportunity.

You be required to grow and lead this team, reporting into the Head of Sustainability for the UK Regions.

You will be expected to be a seller/doer, able to win and deliver consultancy and strategic advisory work on the basis of your own expertise and knowledge, and by leveraging AECOM's wider national and global pool of expertise and staff resources.

We expect you to work closely with our experts in our 100+ strong sustainability team as well as wider AECOM colleagues and external partners to deliver this work.


The job responsibilities will include:

  • Work winning: preparing bids and proposals and responding to tenders to win work
  • Collaboration: working with other AECOM teams in Scotland and the UK Sustainability group to develop winning bids and to deliver successful projects
  • Recruitment and line management: you will have the opportunity to recruit staff (supported by our Talent Acquisition team) to grow a team in Scotland
  • Project management and delivery of consultancy services, including the management of multidisciplinary teams
  • Client engagement: engaging directly with established AECOM clients in Scotland to understand their sustainability challenges and to present and showcase our sustainability and net zero offering
  • Thought leadership: preparing thought leadership articles and presenting at key external events to showcase AECOM's expertise and contribute to the Net Zero debate in Scotland

Qualifications:


MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:


  • Proven track record of winning work to provide sustainability and net zero consultancy services for the built environment.
  • Significant experience of delivering energy, carbon and sustainability consultancy and strategic advisory services to a range of private and public sector clients.
  • Experience with line management.
  • Experience of project managing consultancy assignments involving multiple disciplines and/or teams and stakeholders.
  • An ability to communicate effectively, be clientfacing and write concise and clear reports.
  • An understanding of the UK and Scotlandspecific policy and regulatory framework relating to energy use, carbon emissions from and sustainability of buildings.
  • A detailed knowledge of the measures and systems for reducing carbon emissions within the built environment, including energy demand reduction, renewable energy generation, and low carbon energy supply and demand management options.
  • Experience of team working in a consultancy environment, to deadlines and a fixed budget.

Desirable Skills and Knowledge

  • Experience of working with key AECOM clients in Scotland (such as Scottish Government, Universities, Health Trusts, Network Rail, Local Authorities, etc.)
  • Knowledge of low carbon district heating networks.
  • Experience with energy and carbon related policy research and development of regulations and guidance.
  • Experience of working with Ministry of Defence sites.
  • Experience of working with commercial real estate clients to develop GHG emissions baselines, sciencebased targets and net zero pathways.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:


  • A building sustainability/energy related MSc is desirable.
- **If not currently chartered, should be working towards chartership with a relevant institution (e.g., CIBSE, Energy Insti
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