What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Sustainability Consultant (ESD) position at Cundall?
The Team
For over 20 years, Cundall’s Australian team have been creating a ripple effect across the property sector through applying the science of sustainability to achieve market-leading firsts. Our achievements include some of the first 5 Star Green Star and 6 Star Green Star ratings in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, and Perth. Our expertise contributed to Australia’s first Living Building Challenge certification, the first carbon-neutral certified office in Western Australia and the first WELL-certified retail centres.
Cundall globally was also the first multidisciplinary consultancy to become a One Planet Living Certified company, and the first to achieve carbon neutral certification. Inventing solutions to advance progress towards net zero and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals are our mission – and we collaborate across geographies, time zones, disciplines, and cultures to deliver the best opportunities for our people and a better future for the planet we all call home.
Our world-leading, and growing, project pipeline needs more talent to deliver its sustainable design potential – contact us today to find out more about this exciting opportunity to join our team.
The Role
This is an excellent opportunity for a talented, passionate, and motivated Principal Sustainability Consultant to join our world-leading sustainability team based at our office in Perth, to work on the design of some of the most exciting sustainable design projects. We expect all team members to aim to go well beyond industry standards to positively impact every project we work on.
As an integral part of our multi-disciplinary team, and working closely with colleagues across multiple offices, you will inspire, analyse, report, model ESD projects and liaise with clients with the aim of expanding the sustainability portfolio.
You will ideally have experience in a similar role working in ESD consulting in the built environment and be looking to take the next step in your career and increase your client exposure, job management, and leadership qualities.
Your work will span all sectors and potentially offer a high degree of autonomy, and the ability to influence, and in some cases lead, our national capabilities, and processes, based on the level of experience already gained in the industry.
The Skills
- Engineering, Architecture or built environment-related degree
- 7 years’ experience within ESD consulting, in the built environment sector
- The ability to lead projects and junior staff and represent the business positively to design teams and client organisations.
- Experience with preparing strategy, implementation, and certification of best practice certification schemes, including Living Building Challenge, Green Star, IS ratings, NABERS, and WELL Building Standard.
- Developed knowledge of engineering and architectural principles to analyse and interpret documentation and drawings.
- Possess a body of knowledge that allows you to evaluate ESD attributes and opportunities within designs, and where improvements are required (mechanical, façade, spatial etc).
- Excellent verbal & written communication skills. Report writing skills are essential.
- Experience managing project finances and a track record of healthy project performance.
- Experience managing and mentoring more junior and less experienced team members.
- Client liaison and relationship management throughout various stages of a project.
- Ability to work on multiple projects concurrently, effectively resourcing to meet client deadlines.
Preferable, but not essential
- Green Star Accredited Professional
- WELL Accredited Professional
- Infrastructure Sustainability Accredited Professional
- NABERS Assessor
- Experience in building physics modelling (Energy, Daylight, Comfort, Parametrics))
- Experience in Climate Active & Carbon Neutral
- Experience with Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) using E-tool or equivalent software
- Experience in ESG and corporate sustainability
- Chartership with a relevant body (or working towards chartership status).
What We Offer
We provide a diverse and inclusive work environment and offer many benefits to ensure your professional development while maintaining a healthy work-life balance such as flexible start and finish times, working from home, diverse and exciting engineering projects, paid parental leave, paid purchase leave, professional memberships, birthday day off, amongst others.
We know that to be the best at what we do we need a diverse workforce underpinned by an inclusive culture. Creating environments where everyone can find joy doing their best work is also great for everyone. That’s why we positively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and identities, and encourage, support, and celebrate the diverse voices of our people.
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