Overview
Due to the rapid and exciting growth of our internal environmental consultancy services, we’re looking for a Sustainability Specialist, to join our team. In this role, you’ll play a pivotal part in delivering a diverse range of projects across the UK, spanning the road, rail, water, and property sectors. A full driving licence is essential for this role.
At Kier, we’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone is empowered to achieve their career goals. Our people are at the heart of everything we do, using their skills, creativity, and passion to deliver innovative solutions for our clients and customers. We succeed because of the commitment and talent of our teams working together toward a shared purpose.
Location: Nationwide– travel to sites and offices required, with remote working available
Hours: 37.5 hours per week – Some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us
Salary: £35,000 – £40,000 per year + £5.9k annual car allowance + private healthcare + benefits
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.
What will you be responsible for?
As Sustainability Specialist, you’ll be supporting the delivery of sustainability services for a range of exciting projects across the UK in the road, rail, water and property sectors, providing technical advice, carrying out carbon and sustainability assessments and supporting decarbonisation strategies and net zero goals.
Your day to day will include:
- Reporting to the Sustainability and Climate Lead, supporting in the delivery of sustainability and carbon consultancy services across a range of sectors including road, rail, water and property
- Acting as a focal point for technical advice on decarbonisation strategies, aligning with carbon budgets and Net Zero goals
- Conducting detailed carbon assessments for buildings and infrastructure such as Whole Life Carbon Assessments (WLCA) and developing carbon management plans
- Supporting on green building certification assessments such as BREEAM, LEED, NABERS, WELL
- Inputting into stakeholder engagement sessions and workshops to promote carbon reduction throughout all project phases, working collaboratively with designers, client and supply chain
What are we looking for?
This role of Sustainability Specialist, is great for you if:
- A degree in Ecology or equivalent experience, Practitioner member of ISEP (or equivalent) and working towards CEnv
- Robust understanding of UK climate legislation, policy drivers and standards, strong working knowledge of WLCA and carbon accounting utilising software such as One Click LCA (or similar), demonstrable experience carrying out WLCAs, carbon accounting and reporting, experience supporting green building certification assessments such as BREEAM, LEED, NABERS, WELL
- Strong report writing skills including developing carbon management plan, with an understanding of engineering / construction requirements and methodologies
Rewards and benefits
We’re proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.
Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We’re proud of the steps we’ve taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier’s diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.
As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier
