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Senior Carbon Analyst (Decarbonisation) – Permanent
Locations: London, Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, Reading, Sheffield, UK Recruiter Contact: Aoife Cullen
Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.
We operate across transformative industries—built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health, and care—providing expertise that shapes our future and drives meaningful social impact. Our collective success depends on each other’s growth. From collaborative learning opportunities to global collaboration, our people thrive in an environment that prioritises excellence, inclusion, and innovation.
As an employee-owned business, we reinvest profits across our stakeholders—clients, teams, and communities—ensuring everyone is empowered and valued. Whether you aim to deepen your expertise or expand horizontally, Mott MacDonald is where careers and ambitions grow boldly.
About the Business Unit: Advisory & Programme Delivery (APD)
The Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across our core sectors. Our end-to-end expertise spans global projects up to £20bn, combining:
- Programme & project management
- Project controls, scheduling, and cost management
- Carbon lifecycle assessment and reduction
- Infrastructure finance & management consulting
- Digital transformation and sector-specific advisory (health, care, transportation, water, and energy)
Role Overview: Decarbonisation Project Delivery
The Decarbonisation team is seeking a Senior Carbon Analyst to support our expanding advisory team in the UK. Selected candidates will give cross-sector expertise—from infrastructure sustainability to net-zero strategy. key responsibilities include:
Project Delivery
- Deliver full-process carbon footprinting, lifecycle assessment (LCA), and carbon management projects, ensuring alignment with national/international standards (e.g., ISO14064, PAS2060, PAS2080)
- Advise clients on strategic policies, processes, and project design to achieve net-zero ambitions
- Support data-driven carbon assessments with clear traceability and best-practice methodologies
- Present findings and advisory reports to senior stakeholders and clients
- shadow ESG initiatives in collaboration with global Mott MacDonald climate teams
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Knowledge & Upskilling
- Actively contribute to internal decarbonisation discussions within Mott MacDonald
- Mentor more junior analysts to build their carbon expertise
- Assist in bid development for transport, water, built environment, and energy sectors
Candidate Specifications
Essential Requirements
✅ Professional experience in carbon footprinting, LCA, or carbon management projects across construction-infrastructure, transport, or energy, including:
- Project delivery against quality, scope, budget
- Project performance benchmarking:
- Knowledge of operational vs. embodied carbon methodologies
- Legislation/compliance (UK/EU-level) and industry best practices:
- Familiarity with major climate commitments (e.g., industry roadmaps, net-zero pledges)
- Strategic thinking across big-picture goals and delivery details
✅ Academic qualification in:
- Environmental science, engineering, or related disciplines
- At least an honours degree (Bachelor’s or Master’s) in a relevant field
✅ Core skills:
- Technical: Excel modelling, report writing, client presentations
- Analytical: Strong IT competency, data curation, tools for carbon performance tracking
- Operational: Highly organised, time management, workload prioritisation
✅ Requests behaviour:
- Proactive, collaborative, and passionate about sustainability and decarbonisation goals
- PAS experience liaisonable at all organisational levels (internal/external)
- Technique with indecisive and influence—build leadership advocacy for strategy(s)
Desirable (Bonus)
- Direct experience with net-zero planning, carbon in construction, and configuration impact assessment (EIA) workflows
- Awareness of low-carbon materials/process innovations, circular economy (and hands-on implementation examples)
- Skill with LCA tools: OneClick, E-Tool, SimaPro
- Familiarity with air quality or resilience adaptation as a relevant sustainability pillar
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Integration Notes
Work Immigration
As part of UK Immigration adjustments, Mott MacDonald does not offer sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route. Non-sponsor visa options are acceptable. For support, contact: reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com.
Working Environment
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HR Benefits
Financial & Retirement
- Pension matching (4.5% to 7% of salary)
- Life assurance covered up to 4x salary (fire to 6x when elected)
- Income protection for long-term absence, plus mental/re-setlivability rehabilitation
- Flex up with extra specs, savings plans and manoring to write a will
Wellbeing & Health
- NDSL insurance across all staff
- Health cash plans for evaluations/treatments
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