Associate Director - Sustainability - Energy

Associate Director
- Sustainability
- Energy - (2054)

Location

Travel

Job Type

Full Time

Category

Sustainability

Job Description

Hoare Lea is an award-winning engineering consultancy with a creative team of engineers, designers, and technical specialists. We provide innovative solutions to complex engineering and design challenges for buildings.

We are committed to providing an environment where everyone can realise their unique potential. Joining Hoare Lea means experiencing a business that enriches your knowledge, supports your wellbeing, and welcomes your individuality. You’ll have the opportunity to participate in a 9‑day fortnight scheme, thrive in community groups, enjoy varied social events, and access extensive professional and technical development schemes.

We also offer an extensive benefits package, including private medical cover, electric vehicle salary‑sacrifice scheme, stock options, and up to 30 days of annual leave.

Whatever your ambitions or circumstances, our aim is to enable everyone to develop their knowledge, give their best, and enjoy what they do. We take personal responsibility to achieve a shared vision, combining strong relationships with technical excellence.

We are committed to demonstrating how positively balancing human‑centric design with planet‑conscious solutions is the ultimate measure of success through our North Star vision.

Our clients are industry leading, always striving to achieve the best and to push the boundaries of sustainability. We work on a wide range of projects in most sectors. With a focus on human‑centred, environmentally sustainable design, Hoare Lea delivered the world’s first workplace fit‑out to achieve both BREEAM Outstanding and WELL Certified Gold (One New St Square). Our DfP pioneer project (Timber Square) became the UK’s first NABERSUK Design for Performance project to achieve a 5
* design‑reviewed target rating. At Hoare Lea you’ll have the opportunity to not just work on exciting projects such as these, but also engage with the industry, collaborate with UKGBC, CIBSE, and support the Building Services Engineers Declare initiative.

A fantastic career opportunity has arisen for a creative and driven Associate Director to join our Sustainability Group. The role is based in our London office and will be part of our broader Sustainability group which has a presence in every Hoare Lea office across the country. Working alongside specialist engineers and consultants, you will join a collaborative, knowledgeable, highly engaged team who love what they do and offer a supportive, flexible, high‑performing work culture.

You will be people‑focused and client‑centric. The role focuses on overall team leadership, line management, project delivery, technical leadership, and business development.

You will be responsible for project leadership of Sustainability work streams for our most complex projects and for delivery across the team.

• Take ownership and deliver large‑scale projects with industry‑leading clients.
• Be client‑facing, attending project meetings and disseminating the brief within the project team.
• Manage and prioritise the workload of the team.
• Report resourcing requirements to the project lead team.
• Contribute to the development of other team members.
• Effectively delegate, manage and review work undertaken by others.
• Work with the Director to monitor fee expenditure, resources and work delivered.
• Oversee and lead a range of Sustainable Design analysis work streams, including embodied carbon of materials, circular economy opportunities, building performance simulation, operational energy use, energy generation and overheating.
• Lead the development of sustainability and energy strategies.
• Lead the delivery of environmental assessments such as BREEAM, WELL and HQM from early design stages through to completion.
• Support the drive toward realising net‑zero whole‑life carbon in our projects.
• Work with other members of the Sustainability Group on research and development initiatives to stay at the cutting edge of industry knowledge.
• Engage in research and development studies and author industry guidance.