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An excellent career opportunity for a Graduate or Early Career Professional to become part of our friendly and collaborative environment within the Sustainability team. Opportunities for growth and gaining new skills, working for high profile clients and working on exciting projects across various sectors, predominantly commercial, but also retail, residential, and industrial. This role will suit someone keen to establish themselves in a leading consultancy practice and support the growth of our team.
About us
Our Sustainability team is based in our London office and works with predominantly commercial clients, via a wide range of disciplines to offer best in class sustainability advice. You will be part of a supportive team providing specialist resources for current instructions in London, the Southeast and regional locations.
We work across all the stages of a project life cycle offering sustainability services tailored to the needs of our clients, including strategic sustainability frameworks, sustainability co-ordination and specialist studies including net zero roadmaps, Life Cycle Assessments (LCA), circular economy studies and certification (BREEAM, LEED, WELL, NABERS UK).
TFT is passionate about people and providing individually focused career development. Our Sustainability team will support your career and will work to tailor your role to suit your interests in sustainability including sponsoring training opportunities. We encourage your engagement in CPD and knowledge development at industry events, working groups, and attendance at networking events.
Key relationships
You will work directly with the Associate & Associate Director in the Sustainability team but you will be part of the wider Sustainability and M&E team and work closely with colleagues in Project Management and other TFT Service Lines.
You will be working with clients such as The Crown Estate, Derwent London, Grosvenor Britain and Ireland and British Land delivering on a mix of project work and strategic development frameworks ranging across speculative CAT A fit-out, new build offices, refurb fit-out for commercial buildings and residential developments.
Key accountabilities
- To work with project teams (internal and external) to develop resource efficient/low carbon buildings with circular economy principles.
- Undertake sustainability appraisals of development projects and produce accompanying reports to be submitted for planning.
- Support the sustainability coordination of projects driving innovation and monitoring the integration of a broad range of sustainability aspects into design, construction and operation; including designing for performance, climate resilience, healthy/sustainable materials and circularity, whole life carbon and social value.
- Assist with BREEAM certification projects (or other certification as appropriate), including the pragmatic, cost effective development of design strategies with the project team, validation of evidence submitted, updating tracking record documents, monitoring design development, writing meeting minutes
- Assist with delivery of project specific Net Zero Carbon Roadmaps, decarbonisation strategies.
- Develop a broad understanding of sustainability and climate change issues as they relate to the built environment including application of BREEAM, WELL, DfP, LEED, CREEM and other benchmarking systems.
- Undertake Whole Life Carbon and Life Cycle Costing modelling to recommend Embodied Carbon solutions for new and existing buildings (if interested, experienced).
Essential skills and experience
- Previous relevant experience in sustainable design and/or undergraduate or post-graduate degree in related field. Previous experience within sustainability consultancy would be beneficial but not obligatory.
- General understanding of the construction and design process.
- Ability to communicate, influence, and embed sustainability within a project team.
- Passion for sustainability and general interest in design themes, and UK policy frameworks and benchmarks.
Experienced in two or more of the following areas would be beneficial:
- Sustainability assessments (BREEAM, HQM, LEED)
- Wellbeing (WELL, Fitwel)
- Circular economy & Embodied carbon (Life cycle assessments, Life cycle costing)
- Energy modelling (EPC, SAP)
- Operational carbon (DfP, NABERS)
- Supporting the sustainability coordination of projects, Net zero roadmaps, decarbonisation strategies
What’s in it for you
- Excellent career opportunities (promotion is performance based and not time bound)
- Competitive salary plus benefits: discretionary bonus scheme, mobile phone & laptop to support flexible working, Private Health Care (after 6 months), Personal Accident cover, Life Assurance, 25 days holiday and 1 day charity leave per year.
- Cycle scheme and interest free season ticket loan and company contributory pension scheme on completion of probationary period.
About TFT
TFT is the leading independent firm of Development, Built Asset & Engineering and Sustainability consultants. We place the wellbeing of people and the performance of buildings at the heart of everything we do.
We’re proud of our reputation for integrity and delivering work of the highest quality, blended with commercial pragmatism. We offer a strong track record across all commercial property sectors, advising investors, developers, occupiers and owners on maximising best property asset values. Diversity and strength in depth is important to us. Whether it be a technical thought leader with a career’s experience – or a recently qualified rising star – in today’s risk averse world you need people on your side with a reputation for diligence, transparency, intellect and commercial insight. Clients see TFT as large enough to provide the expertise and resources to get the best from their portfolios, and small enough for it to matter personally.
We have over 170 partners and employees operating from a network of offices in Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Dublin, Edinburgh, Guildford, London, Manchester, Leeds and Southampton.
TFT is passionate about people development and will provide you with excellent and progressive career opportunities and sponsored learning.
We are BCorp Certified
As TFT’s impact on the world has grown with the size of our business and the scale of our client services, we are determined that our future growth continues to be positive and sustainable. B Corp certification enables us to do just that, by recognising the highest standards of social and environmental performance and aligning our ongoing efforts with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. https://www.tftconsultants.com/tft-is-a-certified-b-corp/
DEI at TFT
At TFT we don’t aim to tick boxes and count numbers and percentages, we create an environment where anyone, from any background and life experience, can do their best work. We empower you to bring your full, authentic self to work. We are diverse by nature and inclusive by choice.
If you’re driven to perform, you’ll fit right in, we approach work fearlessly, learn quickly and improve constantly. A bright idea can come from anyone. We believe diversity drives innovation.
Our approach to diversity, equity and inclusion is simple – we embrace everyone. We wouldn’t approach a building survey in a one-dimensional way, so we don’t our people.
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