Senior Sustainability Consultant

Title: Senior Sustainability Consultant

Location: Cardiff, United Kingdom

Employees can work remotely

• Full-time
• State/Province: Bristol, City of
• Business Group: DCS
• Legal Entity: AECOM Limited
• Business Line: B&P - Buildings & Places
• Work Location Model: Hybrid
• Operating Group: International
• Primary Location: UK - Bristol, 3 Rivergate

Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

AECOM is seeking a Senior Sustainability Consultant to join our established Sustainability & Decarbonisation Advisory team, part of our Building Engineering Business Line, which is recognised as a leader in sustainable development.

The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering Sustainability & Carbon services for major public and private sector clients, helping them to design and deliver low-carbon, resilient, and sustainable estates.

This role will span a wide range of sectors including healthcare, education and commercial, but most specifically UK Defence & National Security.

Key Responsibilities

With support from the wider team, you will be responsible for:

• Supporting clients to develop and understand their sustainability & decarbonisation requirements.
• Developing, delivering, and reviewing whole life carbon reduction strategies for a variety of scoping mechanisms (e.g., Greater London Authority, LETI & RIBA, RICS, BREEAM etc.).
• Liaising directly with clients and designers to develop sustainability & decarbonisation strategies at the outset, implementing these from early design through to construction.
• Delivery of assessment certification schemes such as BREEAM and DREAM. LEED and/or WELL experience is advantageous.
• Delivery of sustainability appraisals such as SAW and SEEAM.
• Supporting project management and programming.
• Supporting work winning through the bidding process incl. tender responses.
• Mentoring of junior staff where suitable to help upskilling.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Good knowledge of the building design and construction process.
• Experience of undertaking WLCAs using OneClick LCA, assessment certification schemes especially BREEAM and DREAM, and sustainability appraisals.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills, with the ability to interpret data and apply it to practical sustainability solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly present technical information.
• High attention to detail and a methodical approach to problem solving.
• Flexible and adaptable, with the ability to manage a varied workload across multiple projects.
• Demonstrated experience of sustainable buildings, low-carbon design, and environmental performance.
• An understanding of broader sustainability issues and how these can be mitigated on project.
• An understanding of current & future policies and best practice guidance on sustainability and decarbonisation.
• Willingness to work on Defence and National Security projects.

Additional Information

Important Details:

• Due to the nature of the work undertaken, successful applicants will need to have active UK SC Clearance or the ability to gain UK SC clearance, and ideally have a single UK nationality

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address ReasonableAccommodationsUKI@aecom.com  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.