Graduate Energy Engineers / Junior Consultants - Deliver for Zero (Engineering) - Buildings/Real Estate

(Real estate )

Location

London or South west

Salary

£29-33k depending on experience

Reports to

Head of Deliver for Zero

The Opportunity

As Junior Consultant in Deliver for Zero Real Estate, you’ll provide excellent technical resource to projects and business development activities, supporting the delivery of a range of complex projects across the business and working with some of the UK’s leading Real Estate sustainability teams. 

You’ll be directly contributing to the delivery of our Building energy management consultancy services to Verco’s Real Estate clients.  This will include visiting buildings from client portfolios, providing optimisation advice, and completing onsite energy audits, group programme support and the development of net zero carbon strategies for clients’ assets. 

We are looking for dynamic, committed candidates who are passionate about sustainability to help Verco in our mission to provide the solutions for a zero carbon world.

Verco is an award-winning employee owned energy consultancy and B Corp.  Our vision is to provide solutions for a zero-carbon world; helping our clients reduce their environmental impact and save money through data driven analysis, grounded advice and real-world solutions. 

We are proud to work with some of the biggest names in the business, across a wide range of sectors; from governments designing energy efficiency policy, to work with industry leaders on their pressing energy and resource management challenges.  We provide a wide range of reporting, compliance and energy management services using our proprietary software, in conjunction with an experienced consultancy team and latest analytics.

Primary Responsibilities

    Project Management: To deliver required project inputs according to time, quality and budget requirements. In time, you will take responsibility for project work streams and small-scale consulting projects.

    Technical input: Provide technical input to projects.

    • 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.
    • Provide high quality insightful data analysis which supports the ongoing energy management challenges faced by our clients.

    Business development and proposal writing: Assist proposal creation through the collation of required information and to provide support to managers to achieve individual and sales targets.

    Client management: Maintain strong relationships with existing clients through professional interactions.

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

    Environmental: Contribute to Verco’s sustainability plans and outcomes as required.

Specification

Training/Personal Development

Verco provides a supportive environment and is committed to helping everyone across the business develop.  This role represents the entry point within Verco’s consultancy career structure and the opportunity to develop and demonstrate the capabilities required to perform a full consultancy role within the business.  You will be supported in your career development, through developing skills such as project management, your technical skills and to supporting you towards Chartership.

  

Requirements:

Essential:

  • A passion for sustainability & a desire to support others in reducing their environmental impact. 
  • Minimum 2:1 Masters in Engineering (Mechanical/Chemical Engineering preferred) or other relevant post-graduate qualification in Engineering, Physics, sustainability/Energy
  • Understanding of energy use in buildings, energy balances, HVAC systems (basic understanding)
  • High level competence in the use of IT, including Excel, Word and PowerPoint
  • Strong communicator (verbal & written)
  • Proactive and inquisitive approach
  • Willingness to travel nationally/internationally 

Desirable:

  • Project management / implementation
  • Building services/energy management
  • Relevant post-graduate qualification in Sustainability/Energy related to buildings
  • IES experience
  • Energy & water reduction audits
  • Renewable energy technology design & implementation
  • Metering, Monitoring & Targeting
  • Energy consumption of HVAC systems
  • Heat Recovery Systems
  • Building management systems
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft Power BI

What we offer

Our benefits include an annual performance-based bonus, 5% pension contribution, BUPA medical insurance, life assurance (4 x annual salary), travel insurance (including winter sports), payment of an annual membership of an association, interest free travel loans, cycle to work scheme, give as you earn scheme, annual eye tests/check-ups etc.

As we are an employee-owned business, share purchase options will be available periodically to the team.

We care about your wellbeing, and we offer the flexibility through hybrid working where you can work from home and come into the office twice a week. We organise social events and volunteering activities especially regarding STEM.

To apply

Please submit your CV and a covering letter to careers@vercoglobal.com confirming ‘Graduate Energy Engineer / Junior Consultant – D4Z, Real Estate’ and your preferred location in the subject line of the email.

The closing date for this position is 28th April 2024.

Verco is committed to providing equal opportunities in employment and demonstrating that we value the diversity of our workforce. Applicants must, however, be eligible to work in the UK.

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