Principal Carbon Consultant

6 days ago


Sydney, Australia Talent Nation Full time

Unparalleled opportunity to help build a Carbon Advisory business.
- Enormous opportunity to grow your high profile in the built environment
- Full Time role, Sydney based preferred, also open to Brisbane or Melbourne.

**The Company**

**TSA Management **is a leading global project management and advisory firm striving to make a positive impact in all the communities in which they work. Around 1000 employees collectively manage, consult and partner with industry professionals to radically improve public and private utilities and infrastructure through projects both big and small.

**The Footprint Company recently joined TSA **to help their clients reduce embodied carbon. The Footprint Company (TFC) was founded in 2012, to enable the transition to Net Zero within the construction industry and built environment and has worked on over 340,000,000 sqm of whole building and whole precinct carbon assessments in over 17 countries to date, it is without peer globally in terms of scope, scale and expertise.

TSA have 24 offices across Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Malaysia working in three key business streams of TSA Projects, TSA Advisory and The Footprint Company. With exceptional support from the TSA leadership, The Footprint company are in a prime position to build out a leading global Carbon Advisory business and escalate their impact.

**The Role**
Reporting to the General Manager with a dotted line to the founder of the Footprint Company who is the Managing Principal of TSA Carbon, the
**Principal Carbon Consultant **will drive the delivery of cutting-edge carbon advice and foster the growth of sustainable specialist carbon advisory services, expanding TFC’s reach and impact in the industry.

This is a new and exciting opportunity for a recognised leader within the Carbon industry, driving their key discipline area of Net Zero Carbon policy, embodied carbon, buildings, materials, and construction.

You will have assignment responsibilities on large and/or complex programs of work and have responsibility for developing and maintaining key client relationships. As a highly experienced consultant, you will manage the profitability of multiple projects, and lead resource planning and business account management.

Key responsibilities include:

- Lead client project delivery, within time and cost constraints.
- Peer review and support Footprint Calculator clients to achieve accurate carbon footprints for organizations, sites, precincts and products.
- Provide leadership and development to junior and mid-level consultants.
- Broad engagement with clients across a variety of forms (e.g. meetings / workshops etc) for data collection, evaluation, reduction and Net Zero planning;
- Timely delivery of high-quality technical solutions and interpretation of embodied carbon data and ensuring that the prevailing standards in inventory analysis are met.
- Management of multiple client projects concurrently.

**About You**
You are passionate about sustainability and the decarbonisation of the built environment and are hungry to help grow and nurture a team and client base. With a strong track record of successful delivery and leadership in a consulting or construction business, you will have an in-depth appreciation for the complexities of the project cycle of linear infrastructure and buildings.

We are looking for someone that has amassed a significant industry network and is an active participant in industry associations and leadership forums.

**Required Experience**
- Extensive experience in sustainability and carbon advisory across the built environment
- Tertiary qualifications in an industry recognised degree in Cost Consulting, Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Energy/carbon Auditing, Building Science or economics are an advantage.
- Training or certification in life cycle carbon management, design, engineering or sustainability
- Knowledge / training or experience with CDP / GreenStar (or similar) / LBC / Leed etc
- Strong business development skills
- Ideally you will have one or more of the following NABERS Accreditation, NGERS and or Carbon Auditing Certified, Climate Active certification (or similar), Whole-life-Carbon competent, Green Building Rating (one or more)
- Experience in quantitative assessment and design evaluation
- Experience in developing and managing data analysis tools.

**The Rewards and Culture **TSA and The Footprint Company prides themselves on having an inspiring & supportive culture and a genuine focus on their peoples' wellbeing, professional development and work life balance.

To be eligible to apply, you must have unrestricted rights to work in Australia.


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