Are you looking to join a team and company on a mission to decarbonise the built environment and transform the construction industry as we know it?

The Opportunity

As Senior Whole Life Carbon Advisor, you will join our Whole Life Carbon team – a growing team within Laing O'Rourke's Sustainability function. Working alongside a team of specialist carbon advisors, you will play a critical role in helping to deliver carbon reductions through the measurement and management of embodied and operational carbon emissions on our projects. As part of this role, you will be interacting with multi-disciplinary design and construction teams covering multiple projects across our key sectors with a real opportunity to influence project outcomes.

This is a national role with an expectation to visit project offices and sites regularly, with flexibility to work from any of our offices in Sale, Dartford, Birmingham or Worksop. Proximity to Manchester to support our projects in the North of England would be advantageous but not essential.

Key Deliverables and Accountabilities

• Support project teams to deliver against contract requirements, framework agreements and planning conditions for carbon measurement, management, reporting and reduction.
• Provide support to project Technical Leads and teams in establishing and overseeing processes for whole life carbon measurement in line with RICS Whole Life Carbon Assessment (WLCA) Standard 2nd Edition and carbon management in line with PAS 2080: 2023.
• Accurately collect, process and critically analyse information and large data sets and identify trends in performance
• Develop and implement company templates and multi-disciplinary guidance for carbon reduction and reporting.
• Learn about and use carbon measurement software and tools, such as One Click LCA and eTool, to generate outputs for bids or verify values for contracts.
• Contribute to project case studies relating to whole life carbon measurement and management to support work winning activities.
• Develop and deliver carbon literacy training for all staff levels and support the upskilling of project teams.
• Engage and support our factory teams in data collection and carbon estimation for structural and MEP products, to produce new and refine existing EPDs and TM65 calculations.
• Suggest areas/ideas to drive decarbonisation throughout the whole project value chain.
• Present results of whole life carbon assessments to clients and Project Leaders.

About you:

This may be a pivot from your previous role(s), but we'd welcome interest from anyone with demonstrable experience within a multi-disciplinary design/construction team. 

We are looking to build a diverse team with a range of backgrounds/experience - united in their passion for sustainability, carbon reduction and climate change resilience. We're invested in enhancing the knowledge within and changing the construction industry for the better. Experience of carbon measurement and management principles/techniques and/or an equivalent technical or scientific degree (Environmental/Engineering/Architecture/Commercial) is desired but not essential. 

CVs only tell us so much and so do job adverts. We'd welcome an informal chat via Emma Woodall (Senior Resourcing Advisor) to discuss further – ewoodall@laingorourke.com / 07350368883   

About us:

Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.  Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want, and we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. 

We offer a competitive remuneration package (base salary + car/travel allowance) with access to PMI; enhanced pension and parental leave schemes; Life/Dental/Critical illness insurance and income protection; 33 days holiday inc. bank holidays; professional development opportunities and more!  

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com

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