Job description
Are you passionate about sustainable building design and want to join a leading independent sustainability and engineering consultancy?
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Graduate Sustainability Consultant and BREEAM Assessor to join our growing Energy and Sustainability team. Working closely with our M&E and Building Physics team, you will be based at our head office in Swindon which has good travel links to London, Bristol and Bath, with easy access to surrounding towns and Villages across Wiltshire and the beautiful countryside in adjoining Counties such as the Cotswolds.
Included in Building Magazine’s Top 150 Consultants & Top 50 Engineers list 2021, we have also been included in the Top 50 Employers in Building Magazine’s annual survey for four of the last five years. We are committed to providing the very best to our team and our workplace initiatives ensure that you will have the right resources and skills to achieve your goals.
Your role will include:
- advising clients on how to reduce the environmental impact of buildings
- providing BREEAM, HQM and other rating systems advice and assessment to clients
- SAP modelling of buildings to assess materials and energy use
- advising on building-integrated renewable energy
- developing sustainability strategies for buildings and developments
Benefits
- Employee Assistance Programme (straight away)
- Extra day’s leave on the Friday before the last Bank Holiday in August for an extra-long weekend! (straight away)
- Company Pension Scheme (after three months)
- Private medical insurance (upon completion of probationary period)
- Life assurance (upon completion of probationary period)
- Purchase of up to 10 additional holidays each year taken out of your salary in equal monthly instalments over the year (upon completion of probationary period)
- Cycle to work scheme (upon completion of probationary period)
- Birthday or a day close to it as an extra day leave (after five years or service or more)
What we are looking for
- Team player capable of working in a multi-discipline team
- Excellent at planning your own workload and dealing with competing deadlines
- Good communication skills- verbal and written
- A passion for sustainability
- Educated to degree level in maths, physics, geography, or a related discipline
- Knowledge or awareness of BREEAM would be beneficial
- Must have the legal right to work in the UK
Accepted degree subjects
- environmental science and ecology
- physics
- electronic and electrical engineering
- architecture
- mechanical engineering
Additional job details
- Location
- Swindon
- Salary
- £30,000
- Contract, dates and working times
- Permanent
Full-time
How to apply
Applications are now invited for our 2024 graduate programme. Interviews and selection will take place from February 2024 onwards and is open to graduates or final year students with a starting date in September 2024.
We will try our best to accommodate location preferences where possible but in some cases you may not be allocated your first or second choice location for your initial training period.
Please note, Unfortunately, we do not have the facility to provide working VISA’s and consequently we cannot accept applications from overseas students on a student VISA.
Please send your CV and a chatty letter telling us about your background, why you are interested in the role and how you found out about our vacancy.
Click Apply to start your application now. This job will be available on Prospects until 9 May 2024
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Closing date: 9 May 2024