WLCA & Technical Sustainability Consultant in Bristol

We are growing our Sustainability Advisory team and are seeking a technically minded Consultant to support our expanding pipeline of Whole Life Carbon Assessments (WLCA) and wider decarbonisation work across our commercial property portfolio. This role sits at the centre of our low‑carbon delivery capability. You’ll work closely with our WLCA Lead and the wider Sustainability team to produce high quality assessments that directly shape client design decisions. Your work will span embodied carbon, operational energy inputs, benchmarking, and whole life modelling. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys data, modelling, and the built environment, and who wants to develop deep technical expertise in sustainable design and low carbon buildings. The role provides a clear progression pathway into WLCA leadership, energy modelling, or BREEAM management as our decarbonisation work continues to scale. You will play a key role in strengthening the team's delivery capacity supporting project workflows, enhancing modelling accuracy, and contributing to the development of best‑practice methods across our technical sustainability work.

What matters most in this role:

• Delivering robust technical analysis that strengthens the accuracy, credibility, and impact of our WLCA outputs and decarbonisation recommendations.
• Supporting project teams with reliable data, well-structured models, and clear documentation that enables confident decision making throughout design stages.
• Contributing to a culture of quality, precision, and continuous improvement across our technical sustainability workflows.

Other duties will include:

• Extracting material quantities and specifications from drawings, cost plans, and schedules.
• Sourcing and validating Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs).
• Building, maintaining, and checking WLCA model inputs using tools such as One Click LCA or Excel.
• Supporting the delivery of baseline, concept, and developed-design WLCA outputs.
• Preparing charts, summaries, visualisations, and recommendations for client-facing reports.
• Assisting with energy modelling inputs, benchmarking, target-setting, and Net Zero pathway analysis.

Qualifications:

• A grounding in the built environment whether through architecture, engineering, QS, sustainability, or a related discipline and the ability to interpret drawings, schedules, and specifications.
• Strong analytical skills, excellent Excel capability, and confidence handling structured datasets, along with a detail-driven approach to technical problem-solving.
• Exposure to WLCA, embodied carbon, material take-offs, or environmental modelling, and the motivation to deepen your expertise in these areas.
• Ideally, familiarity with embodied-carbon tools (e.g., One Click LCA, eTool), basic building physics or energy-modelling concepts, and experience within design-stage workflows or certification schemes such as BREEAM.
• Additional beneficial experience includes cost planning, quantity surveying, or knowledge of UK Net Zero Carbon standards but these are not essential.
• An understanding that this role is not corporate ESG reporting, policy, comms, or a generalist sustainability graduate pathway. This is a technical, delivery-focused role for someone committed to low‑carbon building performance.

Benefits:

• Hybrid working to offer you a great work life balance, with a minimum of three days in the office.
• Core working hours to allow for added flexibility and help ease your commute to the office.
• Study support.
• Discretionary annual bonus and salary reviews.
• Healthcare, life insurance & wellness programme.
• Long service additional holidays, your birthday off and an extra day between Christmas and New Year.
• Lifestyle benefits to suit you: gym membership, cycle to work, buy and sell holiday to name just a few.
• Social events throughout the year including a firm‑wide Christmas party.
• Generous referral bonus.

About Workman: As the UK's leading independent commercial property management specialist, Workman has an enviable position within the property industry. We are proud of our longstanding relationships with many of our clients, some of whom we have worked with for more than 25 years. Our clients include leading institutional and sector‑specialist investors, private property companies, public sector bodies and a growing number of overseas investors. We pride ourselves on the caliber of our employees and their unique skill sets.