Senior Carbon Consultant

Location/s: 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 work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual. 

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

 

 

About the business unit   

Mott MacDonald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers both project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors.   

  

We deliver tailored solutions that directly address our clients’ key challenges, combining our world-leading project expertise with unrivalled programme delivery capabilities and advisory services.  

  

APD delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting and education, health and care management.

 

 

Overview of the role 

Our Decarbonisation team is seeking a Senior carbon Consultant to join our talented advisory team in the UK. The successful candidate will have 7+ experience within a similar role and will be actively involved in the delivery of decarbonisation consultancy services for a wide range of projects globally, ranging from infrastructure carbon management to strategy and advisory work.  

  

The role will include a mix of long-term and short-term projects nationally and internationally, working closely with the global Mott MacDonald climate change communities. Your duties and accountabilities will typically include: 

• Project delivery 

• Leading the delivery of carbon footprinting, lifecycle assessment, and carbon management projects 

• Successful delivery of projects to quality, time, and budget requirements 

• Assess the performance of projects against national and international standards as well as industry best practices 

• Inform the development of project design with regards to operational and embodied carbon 

• Assist senior staff in providing strategic advice to clients to align their policies and processes to achieve net zero ambitions 

• Develop data analysis as part of carbon assessment, ensuring traceability and robust calculations 

• Report writing and presenting final results to our clients 

• Professional excellence - be actively involved in the climate change community in Mott MacDonald with a focus on decarbonisation 

• People and capability – assist more junior staff to help build their own carbon skills and capabilities 

• Support preparation of bid submissions and support opportunity development, working in collaboration with Account Leaders and carbon specialists across a broad range of clients within the Transport, Water, Built Environment and Energy sectors 

  

  

Candidate specification 

The successful candidate will be proactive, passionate, and eager to play a part in a growing team. We welcome applications from consultants with the following experience:  

 

Essential: 

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in the delivery of carbon footprinting / lifecycle assessment (LCA) / carbon management projects across a range of project types (delivery against scope, quality, and budget), especially in the infrastructure sector 

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and collaborate at all levels both within the company and across the wider industry 

• Collaborative behaviours to maximise stakeholder engagement and to influence clients and project teams 

• Good knowledge of legislation and policy influencing carbon and climate change, of key methodologies and data sources associated with carbon footprinting and carbon management, such as ISO14064, PAS2060, PAS2080 

• Good knowledge of efforts (initiatives/project/commitments) in the industry to reduce the carbon impact of energy, transportation, construction and the built environment (and ideally participation in such endeavours), coupled with well-rounded knowledge on wider sustainability and climate change issues 

• Capacity for flexible delivery – ability to think strategically “big picture” as well as deliver shorter term detail 

• You need to have a degree/post-graduate qualifications in a relevant discipline 

• Excellent communication skills, including report writing and client presentations, and numerical analytical skills, including the use of Excel and other tools 

• Excellent time management skills and the ability to prioritise workload effectively 

• Self-motivated and enthusiastic with the ability to work as part of a team and independently as required  

• Eperience of net zero, carbon in construction, and environmental impact assessment, and working within EIA teams 

 

  

Desirable: 

• Understanding of related environmental topics such as air quality and climate change adaptation and resilience 

• Knowledge of low-carbon materials/processes/innovations in construction and the built environment 

• Knowledge of the circular economy and experience of implementing CE interventions 

• Experience in the use of LCA tools such as OneClick, E-Tool, SimaPro 

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.<