BREEAM Assessor

Due to continued growth and project success Ridge has an exciting opportunity for a BREEAM Assessor to join our expanding Sustainability team in Winchester. This role is ideal for someone at the early stages of their sustainability career who is eager to learn develop and contribute to an award winning multidisciplinary consultancy as well as for an experienced assessor who is keen to take the next step and help us strengthen and grow our BREEAM and wider Sustainability Assessment offering.

You will work closely with our Sustainability team to support the delivery of high quality environmental assessments across a diverse portfolio of projects. For early career candidates this is a fantastic opportunity to build strong technical foundations in BREEAM with structured support and mentoring. For more experienced assessors the role offers the chance to take ownership of assessments contribute to best-practice development and play a key role in shaping our approach as the service line continues to expand.

About the Team

Our Sustainability team provides a wide range of advisory services to clients design teams contractors and Ridges own multidisciplinary project teams. We support projects from early concept through to handover helping shape Sustainability strategies for individual buildings and large property portfolios.

You will be part of a collaborative supportive team working across multiple sectors including education defence commercial offices industrial hospitality leisure infrastructure and healthcare.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver and support sustainability assessments including BREEAM DREAM WELL and Fitwel.
• Prepare clear concise technical reports briefing notes and supporting documentation.
• Provide sustainability advice to internal and external project stakeholders.
• Contribute to planning support documents such as Energy Statements Sustainability Reports and Whole Life Carbon Reports.
• Support the development of projectspecific sustainability strategies
• Engage with wider Sustainability themes with opportunities to develop expertise in:
  • Dynamic thermal modelling using IES VE or Elmhurst (thermal comfort Part L compliance CIBSE TM54).
  • Embodied carbon and net zero carbon strategies including whole life carbon assessments.
  • Circular economy principles
  • Industry engagement (e.g. UKGBC working groups)
  • Health wellbeing and social value
  • Broader ESGrelated initiatives

Experience & Skills

• Experience or exposure to the built environment sector (e.g. consultancy design construction or academic projects).
• Training or foundational knowledge in BREEAM or similar sustainability assessment methodologies.
• Strong attention to detail and a genuine passion for sustainable building design.
• Ability to produce wellstructured written reports and communicate clearly with project teams.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.

About us

We are Ridge a Built Environment Consultancy. We help our clients transform the quality and sustainability of the built environment.

Our 1400 people bring a vast range of skills delivering a professional mindset gritty discipline and a genuine passion to every one of the thousands of projects they undertake each year. Theyre the foundation of our success - they drive our vision embody our values and separate us from the competition.

Come and join us if youre hungry to be part of an exceptional team - if you put quality first - if youre motivated by ingenuity and if youre always aspiring to be the very best.

• Quality
• THE CORNERSTONE OF OUR BUSINESS.

From concept to execution our work is driven by passion technical expertise and an uncompromising commitment to excellence - delivering solutions that stand the test of time. We dont need - or want - to be the biggest. Just the best.

• Ingenuity
• AS STANDARD.

We question assumptions and look beyond the obvious - applying technical depth and creativity to solve problems that matter. We find better ways today then improve on them tomorrow.

• Partnership
• BUILT ON TRUST. GROWN OVER TIME.

Since 1946 strong relationships have shaped everything we do. We listen challenge with care and stay with you for the long haul - turning shared goals into lasting impact.

• Aspiration
• THE FIRE IN OUR BELLY.

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