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Senior Sustainability Consultant – Building Engineering & Sustainability Team
Company Description
AECOM — Delivering a Better World
At AECOM, we shape the future of infrastructure, communities, and environments. Whether improving transportation, ensuring clean water access, or designing resilient buildings, our work drives progress for people and planet. As a trusted global consulting firm, we partner with clients to tackle the world’s most complex challenges and build lasting legacies for generations to come.
This is a meaningful time at AECOM. With global infrastructure investment at an all-time high, our sustainable solutions are in demand. Join over 50,000 professionals—planners, engineers, scientists, and innovation leaders—and contribute to a purpose-driven organisation where bold ideas thrive.
We’re one global team. We’re AECOM. Join us.
About the Role
Start with us. Grow with us.
AECOM seeks a Senior Sustainability Consultant to join our reputed Sustainability & Decarbonisation Advisory team within the Building Engineering Business Line. This leadership role focuses on helping public and private sector clients achieve low-carbon, resilient, and sustainable estates—with particular emphasis on UK Defence & National Security.
Your expertise will shape a wide scope, including healthcare, education, and commercial projects, while delivering measurable impact through sustainability and carbon strategies.
Key Responsibilities
With guidance from the core team, you will take ownership of:
- Sustainability Strategy & Carbon Reduction
- Partnering with clients to refine sustainability and decarbonisation priorities
- Designing and implementing whole life carbon (WLC) strategies across varied frameworks such as:
- Greater London Authority guidelines
- LETI & RIBA’s Building Confidence and Preparation for(publication) pathways
- RICS/DREAM and BREEAM certifications
- Leed and WELL credentials are an advantage
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Conducting sustainability assessments (SAW and SEEAM) and deliverables
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Consultation & Planning Support
- Collaborating early-stage with clients, architects, developers, and engineers to embed decarbonisation and resilience principles through design-to-completion.
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Certification & Compliance
- Assessing projects for BREEAM and DREAM certification.
- Supporting certification protocols for LEED, WELL, or other emerging frameworks (experience valuable).
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Methodologies & Tools
- Proficiency in environmental product declarations (EPDs) and whole life carbon assessments (WLCAs) using tools like OneClick LCA.
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Project & Compliance
- Contributing to project programming and timeline coordination
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Business Development & Bidding
- Assisting in tender responses and availability submissions
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Team Leadership
- Mentoring junior staff to foster professional growth and rising skill levels
Requirements
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Technical Knowledge
- Deep understanding of building design and construction processes
- Proven experience in whole life carbon assessments (WLCAs) using OneClick LCA
- Direct experience with BREEAM and DREAM certification processes (LEED/WELL/SAW the more equipped, the stronger)
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Skills & Qualities
- Prowess in analytical problem-solving and numerical methodologies to interpret complex data
- Exceptional oral and written communications skills for presenting technical concepts to both executive-level managers and broader stakeholders
- Exceptional attention to detail and structured, solution-focused mindset
- Strong aptitude for bid preparation and project engagement planning
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About AECOM
As the world’s trusted infrastructure consultancy, we iling platforms, providing analytics, AI insights, and tools to ride the wave of global infrastructure growth.
Join AECOM as an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI). Everyone’s unique perspective contributes to transformative impact. Families and dependents are part of ourSUPPORT.
Benefits & Wellbeing
AECOM’s employee offerings include:
- Flexible work models (hybrid, office/site-based)
- Borderless career growth in a global team
- Future Inspiration grants for continuing education initiatives
- Wellbeing programs and creative workspace solutions
Your Impact
Your role has the potential to transform the built environment through:
- Real Progress on Net-Zero Targets: Helping clients radically reduce their carbon footprint per square meter.
- Policy Advocacy: Guiding construction norms and green standards (BREEAM, RIBA PIM, Defra’s Industry PIM, UKGBC).
- Enabling Practical Solutions: Building adaptive, resilient infrastructure that is economically viable, socially equitable, and ecologically intentional.
We’re building across UK Defence, healthcare, education and urban resilience projects— putting you at the forefront of ESG policy and infrastructure.
Business Unit – Buildings & Places Work Location Model: Hybrid
Location:
AECOM Building, 3 Rivergate Bristol, UK.
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