Junior Consultant - Building Performance & Resilience

(Sustainable Transition Delivery - Building performance & resilience )

Location

South west or London

Salary

30-34k

Reports to

Team Lead

About this role

This role sits within our Building Performance and Resilience team which is part of our Sustainable Transition (Delivery) group.  We work with market leaders in commercial real estate to develop innovative global carbon reduction strategies.  Our clients are building owners, real estate investors and developers and our Building Performance and Resilience service acts on clients’ strategic sustainability aspirations, breaking them down into implementable carbon/energy/ adaptation action plans and projects. 

As a Junior Consultant your focus is on the delivery of our building performance, resilience and energy management consultancy services to Verco’s clients.  You provide excellent technical capability and input to complex projects, working alongside different teams across the business. You visit our clients’ building portfolios, providing optimisation advice and completing onsite energy audits, group programme support and the development of net zero carbon strategies for clients’ assets.

By engaging with a wide range of key stakeholders on a day-to-day basis, you’re able to impact the management of sustainability risks and realise opportunities. 

As part of our Building Performance and Resilience team, you contribute to projects that cover the following services: 

  1. Readiness assessment of client organisations to deliver sustainable savings.
  2. Identifying and prioritising the most cost-effective opportunities, including technological, behavioural and HVAC optimisation initiatives.
  3. Supporting and building compelling business cases for achieving staged and pragmatic energy and cost reduction.
  4. Delivering services and opportunities, with a guaranteed outcome and savings verified.

Although you are part of the Building Performance and Resilience team, you will have opportunities to work on other projects within our wider real estate and commercial/industrial teams, giving you the runway to develop as well as share your knowledge.

How you contribute

    Project Management:   You deliver necessary project inputs to time, quality and budget requirements.  As you grow in the role and with training, you begin to take responsibility for project work streams and small-scale consulting projects.

    Technical input:  You provide technical input and high-quality insightful data analysis to projects in support of the ongoing sustainability/energy management challenges faced by our clients.  You work with clients using Verco’s in-house energy management software and other third party systems to provide remote analytical support, reviewing energy consumption trends, identifying unexpected usage and suggesting potential causes/solutions

    Business development and proposal writing:  You assist in proposal creation through the collation of required information and provide support to the team.

    Client management:  You maintain strong relationships with existing clients through the quality of professional interactions.

    Operational:  You provide timely responses to operational needs including invoicing, reviews, project management information, time-sheeting, health & safety, etc. 

    Environmental: You contribute to Verco’s sustainability plans and outcomes and our internal CSR team objectives as required.

What you bring

Here are the key things you need to be able to demonstrate, plus some others that are great to have but not essential.

Education, Qualifications & Training

Demonstrable:  

·       Degree (or equivalent) in Engineering (Mechanical Engineering preferred) or Physics

Desirable:  

·       Masters or relevant post-graduate qualification related to building services engineering, or energy / sustainability in buildings

Employment Experience  

Desirable:  

·       Project management, project implementation

·       Building services/energy management

·       IES Experience

Knowledge & Understanding

Demonstrable:  Understanding of:

·     Energy use in buildings

·     Energy balances

·     HVAC systems (basic understanding)

 

Desirable:         Knowledge of:

·     Energy & water reduction audits

·     Renewable energy technology design & implementation

·     Metering, Monitoring & Targeting

·     Energy consumption of HVAC systems

·     Heat Recovery Systems

·     Building management systems

·     Systems design

·     Lighting

 

Skills / Competencies

Demonstrable:  

·       High level competence in the use of IT, particularly Excel, Word and PowerPoint.

·       Confident using AI tools (e.g., generative AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Copilot)

·       Working knowledge of Microsoft Power BI

·       Strong communicator (verbal & written)

·       Proactive and inquisitive approach

Desirable:  

·       Language skills in particular German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese

Other requirements & attributes

Demonstrable:   

·       Willingness to travel nationally/internationally

·       Able to present a professional appearance

Desirable:

·       Clean UK driving licence

Personal benefits and training

This role represents the entry point within BIP.Verco’s consultancy career structure and the opportunity to develop and demonstrate the capabilities required to perform a full consultancy role within the business.  Your career development will start by mastering your foundational technical and project management skills whilst supporting you towards gaining an appropriate Chartership. 

The focus on your continuing professional development is key for us. It ensures we offer client service excellence based on professional knowledge, skill and expertise that’s not only current, it’s forefront.  So we’re committed to helping everyone across the business develop, with annual learning days set aside as standard in line with your own needs, along with an enabling environment for building your knowledge and skill base as you develop in the role.

You can benefit from our annual discretionary performance-based bonus, a 5% pension contribution, BUPA medical insurance, life assurance, travel insurance (both personal and work - and winter sports!), your annual professional association membership fees, interest free travel loans, our Cycle to work and Give as you earn schemes, along with the option to buy additional holidays to your standard entitlement.

We put a large emphasis on your wellbeing and provide regular check-ins and awareness sessions to support you in achieving the balance that’s right for you. We aim to be as flexible as possible We’re a sociable bunch with shared interests so you can expect an ongoing supply of events, trips, activities and STEM-related volunteering.

To apply

Please submit your CV and a covering letter to careers@vercoglobal.com confirming the role you’re applying for in the subject line of your email and we’ll be in touch. Your cover letter should outline why you are interested in this post, sustainability and building performance and resilience.

Please note you must be eligible to work in the UK.

The closing date for applications is midnight on 7th June 2026 however if the volume of applicants is high this closing date may be brought forward to the 3rd June.

Our mission isn’t just about what we do, it’s also how we do it. So diversity matters to us at BIP.Verco. We value and respect unique contribution and hire the best people, whatever their background, offering a working environment that enables you to thrive and achieve your potential. We are committed to providing equal opportunity and welcome applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

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