Head of Buildings Sustainability

Inhabit is a unique, multi-disciplinary team of professionals who are passionate about making a positive contribution to our built environment. We are a collective of experienced architects, designers, engineers amongst other professions who work both independently and in partnership to form a holistic approach to the services that we offer. We believe that our respective areas of expertise can be integrated to allow seamless interdisciplinary synergy to create buildings that are more relevant to our evolving society.

Our vision: To be the world's leading Specialist Engineering Services Provider and recognised leader at producing works of exceptional quality and value.

Our mission: To build, better, more efficient buildings and to set benchmarks for continuing improvement in international building standards.

We have a collaborative approach that unites the experience and expertise of our people across our international network of offices. We support our clients in changing our built environment with vision and sustainability as the focus.

The practice’s parent company Egis is an international group, headquartered in Europe, offering consulting, engineering, and operations services in the construction and mobility services sectors. With a worldwide reputation for excellence and sustainability, Egis and Inhabit together provide a comprehensive service across all elements of building engineering.

Job Description

An exciting opportunity in our London office is available for an experienced, creative, and motivated Head of Sustainability/Sustainability Lead to deliver projects, grow our business and manage the UK team. You will be collaborating with the best in the business, undertaking technical responsibility and delivery of Building Physics and Sustainability output on projects across various sectors, including design and analysis on building physics, carbon reduction, sustainable building design, and engineering projects.

The role includes delivering sustainable and low-energy design projects in the built environment working closely with clients to help them predict, assess and improve their sustainability performance through a collaborative and well-organized approach. You’ll also be responsible for growing the Sustainability function within Inhabit, providing strategic direction and leading business development opportunities in order to develop the team into a core strand of the business offering.

Our client base is global, but the role will be based in the UK, and will look to secure work across Europe and also Middle East, Canada and the Americas. It will also involve collaborating with experts based out of Australasia, Hong Kong and the UAE, each leading their own sustainability teams.

The Inhabit Europe team provide design solutions that focus on environmental assessment certification, energy and carbon management, whole life carbon assessment, building physics, environmental engineering including daylight, sunlight, wind analysis, air quality, water conservation, flood risk and SUDS. You would be expected to lead this team across each of these fields, in multiple sectors and countries.

Typical activities for this role include:

• Lead the Sustainability Team to deliver sustainability assessment and design consultancy services within the built environment industry;
• Conduct calculations, computer modelling, and prepare professional consultancy reports, proposals or presentations;
• Project management, delivery and senior stakeholder management;
• Business development for the Sustainability Team through new and existing client base;
• Support work winning through bid support, innovation, client liaison, upskilling of colleagues and external profile-raising of Inhabit services
• Develop ongoing strategy to grow and develop Inhabit’s Sustainability business offering;
• Mentor and develop more junior members of staff and support growth in their careers;

Qualifications

• Degree holder in engineering/ science related to green building, civil & environmental, sustainability, building services, mechanical & electrical or equivalent;
• Extensive experience in green building assessment, sustainability assessment consultancy services;
• Experience of working on projects in the Middle East would be advantageous
• Experience of ASHRAE 90.1 OR 90.2
• Ability to develop Carbon Reduction strategies
• Ability to estimate costs for Part O, Part L and embodied carbon assessments.
• Understanding of Nabors, BREEAM, LEED, TM65, etc.
• Maintain an established understanding of building physics such as thermal bridging, air movement, wind, solar, etc.