Carbon Consultant

Job Description

Mott MacDonald

Position location: London, UK / Brighton, UK / Bristol, UK / Cambridge, UK / Cardiff, UK / Glasgow, UK / Leeds, UK / Reading, UK / Sheffield, UK
Recruiter contact: Alice Roostan

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.

About the business unit

Mott MacDonald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers both project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors.

We deliver tailored solutions that directly address our clients’ key challenges, combining our world-leading project expertise with unrivalled programme delivery capabilities and advisory services.

APD delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting and education, health and care management.

Overview of role

Our Climate Change team is seeking an experienced senior carbon analyst to join our talented advisory team in the UK. The successful candidate will have solid experience within a similar role and will be actively involved in the delivery of decarbonisation consultancy services for a wide range of projects globally, ranging from infrastructure carbon management to strategy and advisory work.

The role will include a mix of long-term and short-term projects nationally and internationally, working closely with the global Mott MacDonald climate change communities.

Your duties and accountabilities will typically include:

Project delivery

• Manage and take responsibility for the delivery of carbon footprinting, lifecycle assessment, and carbon management projects.
• Successful delivery of projects to quality, time, and budget requirements;
• Assess the performance of projects against national and international standards as well as industry best practices.
• Inform the development of project design with regards to operational and embodied carbon
• Providing strategic advice to clients to align their policies and processes to achieve net zero ambitions
• Develop data analysis as part of carbon assessment, ensuring traceability and robust calculations
• Report writing and presenting final results to our clients
• Stakeholder engagement - at all levels within the company, across our client base and the wider industry;
• Professional excellence - be actively involved in the climate change community in Mott MacDonald with a focus on decarbonisation;
• People and capability – mentoring more junior staff to help build their own carbon skills and capabilities, with potential for line management;
• Preparation of bid submissions and developing opportunities, working in collaboration with Account Leaders and carbon specialists across a broad range of clients within the Transport, Water, Built Environment and Energy sectors;

The successful candidate will be proactive, passionate, and eager to play a part in a growing team. We welcome applications from consultants with the following experience:

Essential

• Experience in the delivery of carbon footprinting / lifecycle assessment (LCA) / carbon management projects across a range of project types (delivery against scope, quality, and budget), especially in the infrastructure sector;
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and collaborate at all levels both within the company and across the wider industry;
• Collaborative behaviours to maximise stakeholder engagement and to influence clients and project teams;
• Good knowledge of legislation and policy influencing carbon and climate change, of key methodologies and data sources associated with carbon footprinting and carbon management, such as ISO14064, PAS2060, PAS2080
• Good knowledge of efforts (initiatives/project/commitments) in the industry to reduce the carbon impact of energy, transportation, construction and the built environment (and ideally participation in such endeavours), coupled with well-rounded knowledge on wider sustainability and climate change issues
• Capacity for flexible delivery – ability to think strategically “big picture” as well as deliver shorter term detail;
• Experience of net zero, carbon in construction, and environmental impact assessment, and working within EIA teams.
• You need to have a degree/post-graduate qualifications in a relevant discipline
• Excellent communication skills, including report writing and client presentations, and numerical analytical skills, including the use of Excel and other tools
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to prioritise workload effectively
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic with the ability to work as part of a team and independently as required
• Chartership from a relevant professional institution

Desirable

• Experience of mentoring / managing junior staff
• Understanding of related environmental topics such as air quality and climate change adaptation and resilience
• Knowledge of low-carbon materials/processes/innovations in construction and the built environment
• Knowledge of the circular economy and experience of implementing CE interventions
• Experience in the use of LCA tools such as OneClick, E-Tool, SimaPro

Strategic Advisory

Client organisations face increasingly complex and interconnected challenges throughout their business, and drivers for change are both wide ranging and influential on each another. This includes the need to maximise investment, pursuing net zero and making the energy transition. Climate resilience, digital transformation, and environmental and social outcomes also command new ways of thinking and working.

Our range of strategic advisory capabilities help executive teams articulate the future state of their enterprise, programme or problem that aligns their people, processes, information, and technology.

Our integrated management consultancy services leverage our rich technical excellence of complex problem solving, proven through the practical delivery of projects and programmes through our asset management, business change, digital and data, and value chain solutions.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile working

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• Pension matched up to 7%
• Life insurance
• An annual professional institution subscription
• Continuous development opportunities – because we want you to thrive
• Agile/flexible working – because life isn’t 9-5
• Enhanced parental leave; shared parental leave policies – for parents and care givers
• Annual bonus scheme
• Flexible benefits that suit you, including ability to buy/sell annual leave entitlement, cycle to work & interest free season ticket loans
• Wellbeing support including access to an independent Employer Assistance Scheme, wellbeing champions and access to learning and support resources
• Access to our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability and parents/carers communities
• The opportunity to make a difference; learn more about our social outcomes

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.