Sustainability & Climate Lead

Due to the rapid and exciting growth of our internal environmental consultancy services, we're looking for a Sustainability & Climate Lead 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: £55,000 – £65,000 per year + £6.7k 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 & Climate Lead, you'll be leading on the delivery of carbon and sustainability assessments for a range of exciting projects across the UK in the road, rail, water and property sectors, leading on climate resilience including carbon reduction, green building certification systems, decarbonisation strategies, and net zero goals.

Your day to day will include:

• Leading the delivery of sustainability and carbon consultancy services across a range of sectors including road, rail, water and property, growing and developing carbon and climate resilience capability within the business
• Acting as a focal point for technical advice on decarbonisation strategies, aligning with carbon budgets and Net Zero goals, leading on green building certification assessments such as BREEAM, LEED, NABERS, WELL
• Conducting Whole Life Carbon Assessments (WLCA) for buildings and infrastructure and developing carbon management plans, supporting the business in maintaining PAS2080 accreditation and achieving our SBTs
• Guiding and facilitating stakeholder engagement sessions and workshops promoting carbon reduction throughout all project phases
• Working collaboratively with designers, client and supply chain, delivering training, actively promoting innovation and carbon reduction across the business, leading on bids and fee proposals, supporting the team in facing technical challenges

What are we looking for?

This role of Sustainability & Climate Lead is great for you if:

• You have a degree in Ecology or equivalent experience, full member of ISEP (or equivalent) and CEnv
• Hold a 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)
• Experience leading green building certification systems such as BREEAM, WELL, LEED, NABERS, demonstrable experience developing carbon management strategies on a range of projects
• Relevant report writing skills including developing carbon management plans
• Experience leading a team and working collaboratively with designers

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

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