Buildings Sustainability Consultant

**Beca**

**Be involved. Be heard. Belong.**

**Buildings Sustainability Consultant**

Beca is one of the largest employee-owned professional services consultancies in the Asia-Pacific region. Our team of 4000-plus is diverse enough to bring a wide range of perspectives and expertise to every client and challenge, creating resourceful, smart solutions from our collective experience and insights.

‘Creative people together transforming our world’ is our vision. It reflects our culture, our aspirations and our purpose - to make everyday better. With our four values - partnership, tenacity, enjoyment and care - sitting at the heart of everything we do, reflecting the way we work every day with each other and our clients.

At Beca we make everyday better for our clients, our people and our community and your involvement makes it possible. Our size and agility mean you’re not just on the fringes; you’re making a visible difference, partnering to develop and deliver solutions from the ground up.

As a people-focussed business, we understand that work-life balance means a lot of different things to different people and that it’s not always easy juggling work with everything else life throws at us. This is why we are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for all opportunities in the Beca team.

Come and work for the company that won Deloitte’s Sustainable Business Leadership Award and be part of Making Everyday Better

**Join our Buildings Sustainability Team**

The Beca Sustainable Buildings team are widely regarded as leaders in sustainability courtesy of their experience across an extensive range of building projects and third-party project accreditations. We have been a key team member for many certification tool firsts and actively promote a collaborative and value based approach to sustainability and innovation on our projects. We thrive on challenges and enjoy making the complex simple - helping our clients navigate towards their sustainability aspirations, providing the confidence they need to invest in a sustainable future.

Our approach to sustainability is a careful balance and integration of social, cultural and environmental opportunities while acknowledging the value these initiatives bring to a project.

We are a well-established and experienced sustainability team with a focus on pushing the boundaries of design.

We are currently working on a number of net-zero carbon projects, projects targeting world-leading sustainability certification, providing decarbonisation advice for existing assets, advising development agencies on how to integrate sustainability into their designs, and undertaking research to help drive appropriate climate change responses. We are experiencing significant growth in our services, driven by the climate emergency, and are targeting engagements that best support our low carbon future.

As a virtual team across multiple locations, we can expose our people to a variety of work and building typologies, with a focus on growing their capability and enhancing the impact they can have on the world.

Our past is full of world firsts and the highest accolades for implementing green building principles. Today we are focused on surpassing these achievements by continually challenging and overcoming convention and constraints, to transform our world for the better.

**The Role**

This role is a unique opportunity to help lead the growth of Beca’s Sustainable Buildings delivery in Australia. Directly supported by our well established and experienced New Zealand Sustainability Buildings team, you will be involved in a range of Sustainable Building projects across both Australia and New Zealand. You will have lots of influence and the opportunity to make a mark on your projects. You will work closely with clients to understand their needs and then work with our Beca team to put in place plans to exceed our client's objectives.

**What we’ll like about you**
- Tertiary qualified in a related field - Building science, building physics, mechanical services engineering, architecture, or other
- Minimum 5 years experience delivering ESD projects including: Developing bespoke sustainability strategies, building physics analysis (skills in IES or parametric modelling and similar are an advantage), development of passive design solutions, building life cycle assessments, decarbonisation roadmaps, and green building certification (Green Star/NABERS/LEED/Living Building Challenge/WELL etc.)
- Strong client engagement skills - have a passion for working directly with clients and architects offering clear and valued advice which resonates.
- Ability to challenge the status quo and lead others to achieve sustainable outcomes
- Excellent communications skills and someone who thrives working in a team environment
- A passion for sustainability and a motivation to learn better practice in our industry
- Creativity, resourcefulness, intuition and passion for bringing fresh ideas a