Senior Energy & Sustainability Consultant – Operational CRE

Our client is a well established sustainability and net zero advisory firm working with major commercial real estate owners, investors and developers. Their Building Performance team turns clients' strategic carbon ambitions into practical, deliverable energy, carbon and adaptation plans.

As Senior Consultant, you will lead technical delivery on complex energy management and building optimisation projects. You will work directly with real estate clients, running site audits, monitoring and short term data solutions to turn efficiency ambitions into measurable results. You will engage a wide range of stakeholders day to day, shaping how sustainability risk is managed and where the real opportunities sit.

The role spans readiness assessments, prioritising cost effective and HVAC optimisation opportunities, building the case for staged energy and cost reduction, and delivering guaranteed, verified savings. There is genuine scope to work across the wider real estate, commercial and industrial teams as you grow.

Role responsibilities and requirements

• Project management: manage a portfolio of building optimisation and energy reduction projects across real estate clients, delivering on time, on budget and to quality.
• Technical input: provide expertise across data analytics, modelling and strategic insight.
• Business development: grow existing accounts and contribute to targeted BD activity, including writing proposals and delivering technical webinars.
• Client management: build and maintain strong relationships, growing revenue from key accounts over time.
• Operational: handle invoicing, reviews, project reporting, timesheets and health and safety.
• Environmental: contribute to the firm's sustainability targets and internal CSR objectives.

Key skills and qualities needed

• Essential Degree level qualification in engineering.
• Experience managing complex or multi-client projects.
• Energy management and auditing experience, including onsite deep dive assessments.
• Track record developing energy and carbon reduction pathways.
• Key account management and new business development experience, including managing bids and proposals.
• Strong technical knowledge of energy use in buildings: boilers, HVAC, lighting, motors and drives, building management systems.
• Experience with metering, monitoring and targeting, and energy data analysis.
• Understanding of building integrated renewable energy.
• Working knowledge of relevant policy and standards, e.g. CRREM, NABERS, the Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard, ESOS and EPCs.
• Proactive, inquisitive approach to energy auditing.
• High proficiency with dynamic simulation tools, specifically IES Virtual Environment.
• Experience optimising buildings and their HVAC systems.
• Strong Excel, Word and PowerPoint skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication.

Desirable

• Masters or relevant postgraduate qualification.
• Chartered Engineer status, membership of a body such as CIBSE.
• Experience facilitating or presenting at workshops and seminars.
• Knowledge of technology design and implementation, virtual energy management, measurement and verification, electrical infrastructure, DSR and flexibility, or renewable technology design.
• Proficiency in Grasshopper 3D for building geometries.
• Working knowledge of Power BI.
• Additional languages, particularly German, Spanish, Italian or Portuguese.
• Clean UK driving licence.

Other

• Willingness to travel nationally and internationally to deliver projects.
• Professional, client facing presence.

This role will work within an international company with a wide range of blue chip, tier 1 and wider real estate clients. You will be offered a clear career development pathway.