Senior / Principal Sustainability Consultant – BREEAM Assessor

Overview

As a Senior/Principal Sustainability Consultant, you lead building certification delivery and help clients meet decarbonisation targets. You’ll work with UK and international experts to design and communicate sustainability strategies across a varied project portfolio. Your role shapes how projects achieve Net Zero and sustainability goals, while mentoring colleagues and supporting business growth. This is a chance to influence real-world decarbonisation at scale within a collaborative, values-driven team.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible working environment
• healthy work-life balance
• great place to work
• inclusive culture
• opportunity to work on high-profile projects
• driven by sustainability mission

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage building certification projects and competitive bids
• Provide expert guidance on BREEAM, WELL, and other schemes
• Support clients in setting decarisation targets and pathways
• Assist senior colleagues in project delivery
• Coordinate with clients, partners and key stakeholders
• Deliver strategic sustainability advice in early design
• Produce technical summaries and reports
• Analyze large datasets and convert findings into outputs
• Mentor junior consultants and support senior members
• Oversee internal quality assurance procedures
• Recommend low carbon design measures to clients and designers
• Present findings and outcomes to clients

Key requirements

• Strong understanding of building design, construction processes, and material performance
• Demonstrated leadership and team development capabilities
• Deep knowledge of BREEAM, WELL, and other environmental performance standards
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Ability to guide multidisciplinary teams through certification processes
• Experience preparing and leading tenders and proposals
• Degree (or equivalent) in engineering, architecture, building services or related discipline
• Demonstrable expertise in building certification schemes
• Strong grounding in environmental impact assessment and environmental science
• 5+ years’ experience in sustainability consulting within the built environment
• Licensed BREEAM Assessor
• Proven experience delivering certification projects and leading or mentoring teams
• Experience integrating low carbon and climate resilient design solutions
• Commercial awareness related to business development, marketing, and proposal writing
• Excellent communication skills and proactive problem-solving abilities

• leadership
• stakeholder engagement
• proactive problem-solving
• BREEAM
• WELL
• environmental performance standards

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