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Sustainability Consultant

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Buckinghamshire

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Permanent

Sustainability/Building Dynamics

£30k - £40k

About the Company

This role is to join an established consulting engineering practice who specialise in design within the mechanical and electrical field.


Their consultants continue to be involved with some of the largest & most successful industrial buildings in the UK including several of which have achieved excellent and outstanding BREEAM ratings. They are a growing company with a strong portfolio and plans to develop their sustainability offering over the coming years.


The new role would best suit an intermediate engineer with at least 2 years’ experience as it is intended that the successful applicant will be able to pick up and develop several projects with a limited amount of assistance.

About the Role

  • Part L compliance analysis modelling using EDSL Tas DSM software (commercial & domestic).

  • Renewable energy technology feasibility studies.

  • Producing planning reports and presentations with excellent visual and grammatical quality.

  • Thermal comfort & overheating modelling (BREEAM, TM52, TM59, Guide A).

  • Heating & cooling load calculations.

  • Understanding & working to current UK legislation, British Standards and Codes of Practice.

  • Attending & organising meetings with architects, developers and the wider design team.

  • Communicating progress on projects and any concerns.

  • Working within the agreed budget on tasks as set by the lead consultant.

  • Assisting graduates and new starters.

Requirements

  • Experience in Dynamic Thermal Modelling software (EDSL Tas or IES).

  • Working as part of multidisciplinary team.

  • Member of relevant professional institute.

  • Degree in a relevant subject.

  • Awareness of broad sustainability issues (e.g. passive design, health & wellbeing, post occupancy evaluation, low impact materials, water, waste, environmental economics etc.).

  • Ask questions to increase awareness of role.

  • Willingness to learn about risk management, financial management and commercial awareness.

  • Willingness to learn a variety of different sustainability assessment methods e.g. BREEAM, LEED, WELL, Fitwel etc, and/or modelling software such as IES, TAS, Revit etc, as well as interest in more strategic sustainability consulting

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