Sustainability Specialist

We're looking for a Sustainability Specialist to join our Environment & Sustainability team based Nationwide (remote).

Location: Nationwide (remote)
Hours: 37.5 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Sustainability Specialist, you'll be working within the Environment & Sustainability team,  due to the exciting and rapid expansion of our internal environmental consultancy services, we are seeking a Sustainability Specialist to join our Environment & Sustainability Team. You'll support 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 and supporting decarbonisation strategies and net zero goals.

Your day to day will include:

• Supporting the delivery of sustainability and carbon consultancy services across road, rail, water and property sectors
• Acting as a focal point for technical advice on decarbonisation strategies, aligning with carbon budgets and Net Zero goals
• Conducting detailed carbon assessments such as Whole Life Carbon Assessments and developing carbon management plans
• Supporting green building certification assessments such as BREEAM, LEED, NABERS, WELL
• Leading stakeholder engagement sessions and workshops to promote carbon reduction throughout all project phases

What are we looking for?

This role of Sustainability Specialist is great for you if:

• You have a degree in a relevant subject, or equivalent qualification
• You're a practitioner member of IEMA (or equivalent) and working towards full membership
• You have a robust understanding of UK climate legislation, policy drivers and standards
• You have demonstrable experience carrying out Whole Life Carbon Assessments and carbon accounting, utilising software such as One Click LCA
• You have strong report writing skills and the ability to communicate technical information in a clear and concise manner

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.