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As Junior Consultant you will provide excellent technical and delivery support to a range of complex projects and business development activities across the team.
You’ll be supporting the delivery of energy and water management consultancy services to Verco’s large, worldwide manufacturing and energy-intensive clients. Your activities will include onsite energy auditing, group programme support and implementing Verco’s proprietary energy management software Carbon DesktopTM and associated systems such as automatic metering.
Verco is an award-winning employee-owned energy consultancy and B Corp. Our vision is to provide solutions for a zero-carbon world; helping our clients reduce their environmental impact and save money through data driven analysis, grounded advice and real-world solutions.
We are proud to work with some of the biggest names in the business, across a wide range of sectors; from governments designing energy efficiency policy, to work with industry leaders on their pressing energy and resource management challenges. We provide a wide range of reporting, compliance and energy management services using our proprietary software Carbon DesktopTM, in conjunction with an experienced consultancy team and latest analytics.
Primary responsibilities
- Project Management
- To deliver required project inputs according to time, quality and budget requirements. In time, you will take responsibility for project work streams and small-scale consulting projects.
- Technical input
- Provide technical input to projects.
- Contribute to the delivery of energy and water consumption reduction audits at a wide range of sites, with a specific focus on manufacturing sites within the food and beverage sector.
- Work with sites to develop metering and data collection solutions that are supported by Verco’s proprietary Carbon Desktop Software.
- Provide high quality insightful data analysis which supports the ongoing energy management challenges faced by our clients.
- Business development and proposal writing
- Assist proposal creation through the collation of required information and to provide support to managers.
- Client management
- Maintain strong relationships with existing clients through professional interactions.
- Operational
- Provide timely responses to operational needs including time-sheeting, invoicing, reviews, project management information, health & safety, etc.
- Environmental
- Contribute to Verco’s sustainability plans and outcomes as required
Requirements
Essential
- A passion for sustainability & a desire to support others in reducing their environmental impact.
- Minimum 2:1 Masters in Engineering (Chemical Engineering preferred) or other relevant post-graduate qualification in Engineering, Physics, Sustainability/Energy
- Understanding of energy use in Industry and/or industrial processes, building/s, sustainable energy generation technologies
- High level competence in the use of IT, including Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Strong communicator (verbal & written)
- Proactive and inquisitive approach
- Willingness to travel nationally/internationally
- Clean UK driving licence
Desirable
- Relevant post-graduate qualification in Sustainability/Energy
- Project management/implementation
- Energy Management
- Supporting/advising clients on technical energy efficiency issues
- Policy understanding of key UK, EU and international policies
- Knowledge of wider sustainability issues & carbon management
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Power BI, MS Project, GIS
- IES modelling
Training & personal development
Verco provides a supportive environment and is committed to helping everyone across the business develop. This role represents the entry point within Verco’s consultancy career structure and the opportunity to develop and demonstrate the capabilities required to perform a full consultancy role within the business.
You will be supported in your career development, through developing skills such as project management, your technical skills and to supporting you towards Chartership.
What we offer
Verco provides a supportive environment and is committed to helping everyone across the business develop.
This role represents the entry point within Verco’s consultancy career structure and the opportunity to develop and demonstrate the capabilities required to perform a full consultancy role within the business. You will be supported in your career development, through developing skills such as project management, your technical skills and to supporting you towards Chartership.
Our benefits include an annual performance-based bonus, 5% pension contribution, BUPA medical insurance, life assurance (4 x annual salary), travel insurance (including winter sports), payment of an annual membership of an association, interest free travel loans, cycle to work scheme, give as you earn scheme, annual eye tests/check-ups etc.
As we are an employee-owned business, share purchase options will be available periodically to the team. We care about your wellbeing, and we offer the flexibility through hybrid working where you can work from home and come into the office twice a week. We organise social events and volunteering activities especially regarding STEM.
To apply
Please submit your CV and a covering letter to careers@vercoglobal.com confirming ‘Graduate Energy Engineer/Junior Consultant – D4Z, Corporates’ as the subject of the email. Start date in September/October 2023.
Verco is committed to providing equal opportunities in employment and demonstrating that we value the diversity of our workforce. Applicants must, however, be eligible to work in the UK.
