Senior Building Energy Performance Consultant
AtkinsRéalis
- Nottingham
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Contribute to the wider business development process within AtkinsRéalis at a local level.
- Ensuring an understanding of project briefs, developing and delivering varied scopes of service.
- Be outward facing to the Markets including liaising with clients, professional organisations, contractors, suppliers, and sub-contractors - able to develop new and/or existing areas of business.
- Be able to ‘own’ the necessary responses to project opportunities and provide both strategic & specific input into bids and proposals. Successful in identifying and following through on leads associated with new and existing clients. Able to discuss the operating and business unit technologies and markets.
- Responsible for the preparation of fee proposals for submission to potential Clients with an ability to realistically estimate pricing and produce successful responses to bids across a range of expertise.
- Operate the Quality Assurance system, quality control and document management in line with current policy.
- Assisting in the monitoring of and reporting on capital and fee expenditure.
- Lead complex and high value projects from a Building Energy Performance perspective.
- Provide client strategy to achieve individual site and estate wide decarbonisation.
- Carry out the production of detailed calculations using industry standard software tools.
- Preparing technical specifications and develop design drawings.
- Work in partnership with AtkinsRéalis international Global Technology Centre (GTC) to add value to building services projects where appropriate.
- Representing AtkinsRéalis at meetings with clients and contractors.
- Site surveys, inspections, and monitor site works.
- Report and technical note writing.
- Maintaining complete records and archives to company standards.
- Adherence to all quality, environmental & governance processes.
- Managing own and others workload, updating forward plan of workload regularly and working to time allocations.
- Managing elements of project delivery and an understanding of budget costings.
- Reviewing progress, including reporting any anomalies and changes of scope to the project lead.
- Assist with technical development of junior staff.
- Identify manage and record business opportunities.
- Mange the commercial aspects of appointments.
- Degree qualified, or equivalent qualification, in related subjects.
- Hold sustainability / energy / carbon qualifications/accreditations.
- Chartered Engineer (or working towards CEng) with CIBSE or IET.
- Effective team worker, contributing to the team and wider objectives.
- Possess strong communication skills, both written and verbal, and be able to understand and express technical concepts clearly and accurately. Effective presenter/communicator able to author and deliver presentations/detailed reports.
- Working knowledge of common forms of contract such as NEC, JCT etc.
- Awareness of key legislation, regulations, and industry standards relevant to Building Services, i.e., building regs, London Plan, BREEAM, etc.
- Undertake any other reasonable tasks or duties as required by the management team from time to time in order to maintain flexibility in the organisation.
- Good level of computer literacy in a range of digital tools.
- Proficient energy reduction methods and approaches to decarbonising new and existing buildings.
- Knowledge of energy and carbon related data capture and analytics.
- Awareness of the principles of building physics such as passive design solutions and fabric first approaches.
- Some awareness of designing for measurement and verification, including experience of commissioning and post installation evaluation of performance.
- Experience of working in a design consultancy and/or some experience of working within a contractor design environment is beneficial.
- Good knowledge of appropriate technical standards.
- Able to take charge of personal project deliverables, make decisions on developing the discipline design elements, act on own initiative and operate in a pro-active way.
- Good report writing skills, experience of making presentations to and attending meetings with clients will be useful.
- Comfortable working within time and cost budgets as agreed at project briefing meetings.
- Undertake any other reasonable tasks or duties as required by the management team from time to time, in order to maintain flexibility in the organisation.