Senior/Associate BREEAM Consultant

My client a building services and sustainability consultancy has an immediate requirement for an experienced BREEAM Assessor to join their team.

Purpose of job:

• Undertake as an BRE licensed Assessor, Sustainability Assessments; manage and deliver throughout the life of each project using the latest BREEAM assessment procedure through to present:

• BREEAM New Construction Commercial – Includes Office, Retail and Industrial

• BREEAM New Construction Multi-Residential – Includes Residential care Homes, Student Accommodation

• BREEAM New Construction Other Buildings – Includes hotels, hostels (short stay residential), Cinema’s

• BREEAM Non-Domestic Refurbishment and Fit-out – Includes Office refurbishments, office fit-out, Retail and Industrial, other buildings, etc.

• BREEAM Domestic Refurbishment – Refurbishment and conversion of existing residential dwellings (i.e. change of use – Office to Residential) or splitting in apartments

• BREEAM AP (Accredited Profession) – During design and construction

• Undertake Pre-assessment, Design Stage & Post Construction stage assessments through to certification.

• Provide sustainability related consultancy to clients and design teams. Manage fee quotes in a structured manner, using in house fee structure.

• Overall responsibility for delivering BREEAM Assessments from pre-assessment to final certification

• Supporting the design and construction teams in completing and collating the required BREEAM evidence required for certification by the BRE

• Undertake the sustainable design, analysis and consultancy for a variety of buildings

• Exploring multiple options and summarise the benefits and shortfalls of each * Working as part of multidisciplinary team, organising and chairing meetings with the wider design team

• Assist the directors with bid preparations

• Assist the engineers with integrating the BREEAM requirements into design

• Delivering excellent project work within agreed deadlines and to the appropriate level of detail

• Undertake Life Cycle Analysis (Embodied Carbon Reports)

Principal Responsibilities

• Production of Fee quotations for Sustainability services, having a good understanding of time required to complete tasks relative to each fee.

• To undertake Sustainability Assessments to meet local and national Planning requirements and the GLA.

• Agree level of service, and project design duties with your Director, for each project, understand relationship with fee.

• Chair sustainability review meetings within the design team, providing advice how commercially to best achieve the targets set out.

• Act as the Sustainability Champion for projects and within the practice.

• Qualified BREEAM Assessor- Accredited New Construction and Refurbishment (non Domestic)

• Qualified BREEAM Assessor (Domestic refurbishment)

• Ideally you will be a Graduate member to a relevant professional institute

• Awareness of broader sustainability issues (e.g. life Cycle Analysis & Costing, passive design, health & wellbeing, post-occupancy evaluation, low impact materials, water, waste, environmental economics etc.)

• Awareness of tasks on projects from conception to handover

• Ability to prioritise own workload and manage various projects at different stages.

• Willingness to learn a variety of different sustainability assessment methods e.g. BREEAM, LEED, WELL, etc, and/or modelling software

• Work with our MEP engineers to carry out concept design to detailed design, tender and contract on-site supervision, to completion, ensuring projects are undertaken in accordance with sustainability design briefs and that completion deadlines are achieved.

• Liaise with the design team to facilitate the process of sustainability measures. Provide positive contribution to design/project meetings. Maintain regular ‘in house’ design reviews and checks with a bias towards sustainability.

• Maintain excellent client and design team relationships to achieve high levels of repeat business and achieve 100% Customer Satisfaction.

• Pursue new business opportunities, where appropriate, with existing and new clients.

• When acting as project team leader, co-ordinate with other project disciplines.

• Assist Directors with identifying and implementing your personal training/CPD requirements. Help develop working practices in the Company.

• Implement and manage QA systems and procedures on all projects.

Experience & Qualifications

• BREEAM Assessor Qualifications (as above)

• Experience of taking BREEAM assessments through to certification.

• Minimum 5 years’ experience – technically competent.

• Good communication/presentation skills

• Understand client requirements/objectives

• Thorough knowledge of the sustainability related statutory legislation, standards, and drivers in the construction industry.