Flexible working | Industry benchmarked salary package | Annual salary reviews
- Make an impact on Green Building Design and Sustainable Communities
- Guaranteed career development | Varied scope of sustainability projects
**The Company**
Northrop Consulting Engineers is an employee owned, multi-discipline consultancy that has been established for over 45 years. We have an open management structure that embodies a diverse, inclusive and flexible workforce for all our employees.
We currently employ over 550 team members across NSW, ACT, QLD, and VIC. We are essentially a people business that grows by creating opportunities for our people to help build the business and their career. When you join Northrop, you join a company that will support you to excel both professionally and personally.
**Northrop Sustainability Section**
We acknowledge that we live, work and play in buildings, spending more than 80% of our time indoors. The Sustainability Section is going through a growth phase, with a strong desire to service projects across sustainable communities, green building design, existing building performance and health & wellbeing. The team is also spearheading to transform engineering consulting to a default base of carbon neutral and climate resilient design.
We are a close knit, high energy team across Melbourne and Sydney who works autonomously on projects, yet collaboratively on strategy. You will have the opportunity to work in an environment like none you've seen before. We are part of a multi-disciplinary consulting organisation which gives us access to projects most sustainability consultants can only aspire to. Ours is a fast-paced culture where you will be responsible for delivering multiple projects concurrently.
**The Role**
As a Sustainability Consultant, you will develop and deliver modern, customised and commercially viable solutions for our clients. You will also contribute to the overall expertise of the team ensuring that we have access to the latest sustainability solutions**.** In this key role, within a team that will grow significantly over the next 12 months, you will work on a wide range of challenging projects with a variety of clients.
You will act as a Sustainability consultant working on Standalone ESD and multidisciplinary projects across multiple sectors. You will provide guidance and mentorship, including QA and informal training to junior members of the team and have an aspiration to further develop your client management and stakeholder relationship skills (internally and externally).
**Key Accountabilities**
You will be responsible for:
- Working closely with the Green Building Council of Australia to deliver a portfolio of Green Star ratings, including the Communities, Buildings, Design As-Built tools.
- Leading and managing project delivery for a broad range of building, master planning and advisory projects
- Monitoring project health, costings, and performance, managing teams, ensuring key dates are met and projects remain within budget.
- Coordinating project teams, clients, contractors, and suppliers in relation to green rating assessment tools including (but not limited to) data compilation, calculation, verification, and green rating tool submission.
- Embedding Living Building Challenge (LBC) Principles and regenerative design into our projects.
- Embedding passive design principles through a sitewide passive design approach with a unique focus on passive heating and cooling techniques and optimal indoor environmental quality, health and wellbeing.
- Undertaking and reviewing building physics modelling and analysis.
- Liaising directly with clients and running projects to meet client's needs and exceed their expectations.
- Undertaking continuous professional education. We provide endless training opportunities. We expect you to use this training not only to enhance your own career, but also to deliver client solutions and establish the Section as the experts in sustainable building design and the 'go to' sustainability practice in Australia.
- Nurturing existing clients and building new client relationships
- Representing Northrop in internal and external client engagements and industry events, growing our strong local and national sustainability Section.
- Preparing bids and generating bid relationships
- Acting as a mentor to junior consultants providing technical support and guidance on project management and delivery.
You will have access to many opportunities within Northrop and with our support we will help you to develop your career and make it happen.
- It is essential that you have demonstrated experience as a Sustainability Consultant in the built environment consulting field, including project management, building sustainability design and delivery of ESD projects.
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in Sustainability or Engineering.
- ESD Strategy development and design thinking is essential.
- Green Building Consulting and Certification Experien