At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference because we recognise our responsibility to lead the creation of a better industry and the journey to Net Zero. We are driven to help build a world where opportunities are open to all, people can live healthy, safe lives and society has a positive impact on the natural world around it. Through the commitment, capability and care our team brings, we build trust, deliver better outcomes for our clients, help our people to realise their potential, and do our part to create a prosperous society.

Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and supportive company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result, our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

Our vision is based on the interconnected strands of being ‘Green, Productive and Inclusive’ and we are now looking to expand our growing Net Zero capability in Scotland to meet the increasing demand across our varied and diverse client base.

Our team

Our Sustainability team specialises in helping client organisations to measure, manage and reduce energy consumption, carbon emissions, resource use and achieve wider sustainability aims. Our services include:

• Delivery of city-wide and region-wide decarbonisation programmes
• Delivery of place-based net zero projects through delivery support.
• Development and delivery of decarbonisation strategies and delivery plans

Experienced sustainability practitioner with a background in housing

Are you passionate about being part of the transition towards a greener and more productive future? Do you love a challenge and have a flexible approach to changing priorities?

The specialist Housing sustainability team is growing in response to rising demand for our services from government, social housing providers and public sector organisations.

We are looking for individuals with different levels of experience and seniority to recruit into a variety of roles.

You will have real experience of housing sustainability programmes that you can draw on to support our clients and deliver the net zero carbon and sustainability agenda.

Our consultants play key roles in shaping and delivering housing sustainability projects for our clients with real technical experience in retrofit, new build or sustainability monitoring and reporting.

Our people are also:

• Positive and creative
• Self-starters, able to work independently
• Excellent team members, dependable, collaborative and inspiring

If you want to join a rapidly growing business where you will play a key part in shaping our consultancy offer, whilst delivering some of the most exciting and challenging sustainability programmes on a national scale, we are looking for people just like you!

Does this sound like you?  

With us, you’ll be at the forefront of the net zero carbon transition of the UK’s housing and public sector. The specific role will be shaped around the individual skills and experience that you bring, with a range of opportunities from developing net zero energy and ESG strategies to project delivery support on some of the UK’s most innovative, market shaping projects such as the housing retrofit accelerators we run on behalf of national and regional governments.

If this sounds interesting – talk to us to find out more about what we do. Conversations can lead to amazing places!

What will you be doing (depending on grade and not necessarily all in one person)

• Help deliver sector assistance programmes, e.g., the Social Housing Retrofit Accelerator, working directly with housing providers to build capacity and capability, enabling retrofit programmes to take place, saving carbon and changing lives
• Support social landlords and public sector bodies through the delivery journey of their net-zero strategies and investment programmes, including: awareness, interest, business case, decision, procurement, build phase, monitoring and completion
• Lead or support the analysis of housing asset data to benchmark energy performance and develop investment scenarios against energy performance and net zero targets
• Support social landlords to measure environmental performance and put in place ESG strategies and reporting frameworks (with a focus on environment but an awareness of social and governance issues)
• Take a lead role or support in managing projects, including client liaison, team resource and budget management
• Line manage small teams (where appropriate) and play a key role in their professional development, helping others to deliver excellent work
• Support the development of business cases for new services, expanding our reach to new clients, sectors and technologies
• Assist in the business generation activity and contribute to bids to win new work.

What skills and experience are we looking for?

Essential

• Systematic approach to project management. Your experience might be from smaller projects within a social housing provider right up to extensive experience of managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects, often simultaneously and with competing priorities
• Demonstrable experience in interpreting and using data to drive decarbonisation and asset planning exercises, turning data into realisable projects and programmes
• Strong subject matter expertise of net zero, retrofit and ESG policy and strategy in the local authority and social housing sector
• Excellent communication skills, ability to develop succinct and accurate communications covering complex subject matter for delivery to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Lateral thinker with critical skills to think creatively, problem-solve, anticipate client requirements and adopt the most suitable approach for clients and team
• Strong relationship management skills

Desirable

• Consultancy experience
• Social landlord/public sector experience and expertise: asset management, finance, development (ideally with specific experience of managing/coordinating capital spend and retrofit projects)
• Construction sector experience, including construction contract management
• New build housing development experience
• Experience in developing and delivering guidance and/or tools to assist housing providers with retrofit projects
• Public sector procurement, supply chain management and supply chain sustainability assessment/improvement
• Climate adaptation or biodiversity management experience
• Retrofit Coordinator training or other similar energy related qualifications (for example, SAP and domestic energy modelling) and awareness of PAS2035
• Stakeholder engagement, particularly with residents of social housing
• Experience of growing and managing effective teams
• Business development experience – prospecting/lead development, developing business cases, bid writing and bid management

• Ability to review, analyse and benchmark energy and carbon performance, including carbon footprinting and Whole Life Carbon assessment

• Knowledge of sustainability reporting guidelines/frameworks, for example, SBTi, GHG protocol, CDP, TCFD, CSRD
• Ability to identify potential technical solutions for different housing archetypes, including fabric measures, low carbon heating and renewable energy

Why T&T

T&T is a leading global property consultancy, with around 3,000 employees in the UK and over 6,000 globally. We are a growing organisation with high ambitions and recently ranked number 1 in the Times PWC Top Track 250. This is a dynamic and innovative company, quick to respond to market trends and with a reputation for quality.

You’ll join a talented team with real breadth to make a positive impact on society. We have friendly team culture and strong support to help shape T&T’s wider response to the climate and ecological emergencies. The Sustainability team at T&T is growing quickly, with lots of opportunities for personal development and the potential to make real impact.

Diversity & Inclusion

T&T has an inclusive culture with a mix of people and backgrounds and are we are keen to encourage this diversity in bringing new approaches and ideas to clients.  We are able to accommodate flexible working patterns where needed and encourage a good work life balance!

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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