Associate, Industrial Decarbonisation Consultant
Company
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
12/5/2024
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Description
Job Description
What if you could do the kind of work the world needs?
At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.
Join us as a specialist delivering and leading pivotal client facing roles who will need to demonstrate interpersonal and relationship building skills in additional to relevant industrial experience. You will be working on complex industrial sites and assessing their current state of utilities and a significant volume of work will be integrating the latest new technology for low and zero carbon solutions into these facilities together with developing their sustainability road maps and frameworks. You’ll be part of a dynamic and growing team specialising in sustainability and climate change.
Some Recent Project Commissions Include
Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.
With us, you can. Apply today.
About Us
We are WSP - Join us and make your career future ready!
In today’s world it’s important to work for a company that has clear purpose, giving back to communities and supporting what is truly important in the world.
When considering a career move its vital to work for a business that is aligned to your values and goals, a place where you can belong.
To find out more about our business click on the following link and discover what awaits you at WSP: Who We Are | WSP
What’s In It For You
Work-life balance?
WSP recognises that work is only one part of your life and making time for other things is important – whether that’s for your families, friends, or yourself.
Our hybrid working policy allows the flexibility to work from the comfort of your own home as well as collaborating in our contemporary offices across the UK.
Inclusivity & Diversity?
We want our people to achieve rewarding careers, bringing their whole selves to work. We celebrate integrity and treat people with respect, supporting each other and embracing diversity to create a culture of inclusion and belonging at WSP.
Our employee resource groups VIBE (LGBTQ+ employees), CREED (Championing Racial Equality and Ethnic Diversity) and our Gender Balance Group, in tandem with WSP’s Neurodiverse Community Group, WSP Connect Group (visible and non-visible disabilities) help us promote the right environment for you to reach your full potential.
Health & Wellbeing?
We are committed to supporting our people, giving you the tools to make improvements to your health and wellbeing through our Thrive programme.
Med24 gives you and your family unrestricted telephone access to an NHS doctor where you can call day or night or have a face-to-face video consultation.
Flex your time?
For improved work life balance, WSP offers the “WSP Hour” which enables you to take one hour per day to do as you wish and make up the time earlier or later that day. We also offer part time and flexible working arrangements plus the option to flex your bank holiday entitlement to suit you.
Your development?
We appreciate that development and training is important to you and that’s why we have a supportive environment that invests in your development, whether that’s chartership, training or mentoring.
APPLY NOW AND BE THE FUTURE OF WSP!
#WeAreWSP
Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria, please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.
Please note WSP reserves the right to close the vacancy before the advertised closing date.
What if you could do the kind of work the world needs?
At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.
Join us as a specialist delivering and leading pivotal client facing roles who will need to demonstrate interpersonal and relationship building skills in additional to relevant industrial experience. You will be working on complex industrial sites and assessing their current state of utilities and a significant volume of work will be integrating the latest new technology for low and zero carbon solutions into these facilities together with developing their sustainability road maps and frameworks. You’ll be part of a dynamic and growing team specialising in sustainability and climate change.
Some Recent Project Commissions Include
- Developing complex offsetting strategies involving carbon removal technologies for hard to abate sectors and ensuring it is part of a credible pathway to reaching their climate goals;
- Developing F gas strategies to help inform overall decarbonisation targets including trajectory reductions, F has phase downs, regional market considerations, refrigeration availability, and PFAS phase out;
- Ensuring significant process mass and energy balance data is available as this data is key for proper allocation of energy and emissions burden for whole life carbon assessments particularly to distinguish between operational and capital emissions;
- Utility master planning and energy strategies that provide a road map for current and future operations and management for site utilities infrastructure with a particular focus on the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors; and
- Developing complex energy models that operate within a bandwidth of consumptions so as to account for changes in buildings and process loads, including upgrades in technology and site expansions/contractions.
- Practical knowledge of utilities systems including boilers & steam plants, refrigeration & cooling systems, compressed air systems, water treatment & HVAC
- Experience and keen interest in sustainability, renewable energy, energy reduction and efficiency projects
- An understanding of the ever-changing carbon market and initiatives such as RE100, SBTi and GHG Initiative etc.
- Delivering technical work across some or all of the areas described above, and production of outputs (reports, workshops, briefing notes, carbon/energy models)
- Analysing and researching clients’ sustainability and climate change challenges and using best practice tools and approaches to provide industry-leading advice
- Development of strategies / master plans for site facilities and systems
- Knowledge and understanding of capital planning and approval processes
- Building business cases to support investment proposals
- Analysing, manipulating and interpreting quantitative carbon data (e.g. in materiality assessment, carbon action plan) in line with best practice such as ISO14044 and GHG Protocol.
- Project management and in some cases being the Project Director
- Representing WSP at industry events, and contributing to a technical area of thought-leadership to help position us in the marketplace (you may have, or could develop a particular area)
- Leading the preparation of A-class quality proposals, outputs for clients, capability and strategic documents
- Embracing the #FutureReady mantra at WSP, influencing talking with clients, influencing colleagues and stakeholders and integrating that thinking into our sustainability work
- Experience in a professional business environment, for instance in consultancy, as part of an in-house team or other relevant organisation working in this field
- Experience of interacting with clients’ senior manager/executive levels
- Experience of delivering projects, developing strategy or implementing change across some of the sustainability topic areas described above
- Line management experience
- Applied knowledge of UK and international legislation, sustainability frameworks and guidance and best practice in relation to these topic areas (particularly, SBT, CDP and IS04064)
- A relevant degree in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering and chartership/membership of professional institutions
- Fully competent in conducting numerical analyses in Excel, and the production of concise, impactful written/presentation outputs to communicate to clients
- Experience of life cycle assessment (LCA) would be advantageous.
- Skills in assessing the feasibility of renewable and low carbon energy solutions.
Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.
With us, you can. Apply today.
About Us
We are WSP - Join us and make your career future ready!
In today’s world it’s important to work for a company that has clear purpose, giving back to communities and supporting what is truly important in the world.
When considering a career move its vital to work for a business that is aligned to your values and goals, a place where you can belong.
To find out more about our business click on the following link and discover what awaits you at WSP: Who We Are | WSP
What’s In It For You
Work-life balance?
WSP recognises that work is only one part of your life and making time for other things is important – whether that’s for your families, friends, or yourself.
Our hybrid working policy allows the flexibility to work from the comfort of your own home as well as collaborating in our contemporary offices across the UK.
Inclusivity & Diversity?
We want our people to achieve rewarding careers, bringing their whole selves to work. We celebrate integrity and treat people with respect, supporting each other and embracing diversity to create a culture of inclusion and belonging at WSP.
Our employee resource groups VIBE (LGBTQ+ employees), CREED (Championing Racial Equality and Ethnic Diversity) and our Gender Balance Group, in tandem with WSP’s Neurodiverse Community Group, WSP Connect Group (visible and non-visible disabilities) help us promote the right environment for you to reach your full potential.
Health & Wellbeing?
We are committed to supporting our people, giving you the tools to make improvements to your health and wellbeing through our Thrive programme.
Med24 gives you and your family unrestricted telephone access to an NHS doctor where you can call day or night or have a face-to-face video consultation.
Flex your time?
For improved work life balance, WSP offers the “WSP Hour” which enables you to take one hour per day to do as you wish and make up the time earlier or later that day. We also offer part time and flexible working arrangements plus the option to flex your bank holiday entitlement to suit you.
Your development?
We appreciate that development and training is important to you and that’s why we have a supportive environment that invests in your development, whether that’s chartership, training or mentoring.
APPLY NOW AND BE THE FUTURE OF WSP!
#WeAreWSP
Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria, please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.
Please note WSP reserves the right to close the vacancy before the advertised closing date.
Advertise with us.
Please contact: hello@huntukvisasponsors.com
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