Sustainability Consultant (Graduate)

About the job

Job Title: Sustainability Graduate

Location: Newcastle Under Lyme

Salary: Competitive

Job Type: Full Time, 37.5hrs (Mon - Fri)

Company Profile:

Hopkins Coats Associates is a family run building services consultancy . We engineer functional, compliant, and comfortable environments for the commercial sector including retail, industrial, logistics, education, manufacture, and healthcare. We provide services in electrical, mechanical, utility, sustainability, and energy sectors.

Due to consistent business growth and upcoming projects, Hopkins Coats Associates now has a vacancy for a Graduate Engineer. This role is a fantastic career opportunity for someone who is self motivated individual to join a supportive and growing business providing technical design and administrative support to the Partners and other Engineers in the business. We expect you to have a fundamental understanding of building services engineering and a solid understanding of the main engineering principles of this discipline of engineering.

Job Overview:

• Production of engineering design drawings using AutoCAD.
• Carry out routine calculations using standard methods approved by the Partners. This includes hand calculations and computational calculations of simple systems (ventilation ductwork sizing, heat loss design, lighting design, amongst others routine calculations).
• Obtain quotations from manufacturers, utility providers etc.
• Assisting Engineers and Partners with onsite surveys, measurements, identifying existing services on a building layout plan.
• To attend design team meetings accompanied by other Engineers from the practice.
• Coordinate research for Engineers and Partners presented in the correct manner.
• Administrative duties to support the admin team; taking telephone calls, filing, welcoming visitors, undertaking secretarial duties as required etc.
• Will be trained to undertake energy modelling for new and refurbished buildings for Part L Compliance and BREEAM.
• Carry out sustainability assessments using the BRE's BREEAM assessment methodology.
• Advise the client on how to construct new buildings in a sustainable manner such as identifying areas of energy saving, material selection, ecological enhancements, etc.
• Make recommendations for on-site generation for low-carbon energy.
• Thermal modelling of buildings to identify areas where improvement is necessary to account for climate change.
• Planning and technical applications to distribution network operators (electric board) for new solar PV installations.
• Assess impact and use of buildings on human health.
• Calculate equivalent carbon emissions arising from use of different construction materials and construction machinery.

Essential Requirements:

• A STEM based degree (Engineering, physics, maths at minimum 2:1)
• BSc (2:1) in Environmental Science, Sustainability or combination thereof.
• Basic AutoCAD drawing skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications.
• Engineering background
• Further education and qualifications in engineering disciplines such as Maths and Science.

Desired Skills:

• Ideally, the Graduate Engineer will have a full UK driving licence with use of their own car. This may be used for transportation with the Engineers or Partners for site visits, progress meetings, sites surveys and dropping of documents etc.
• Interest and/or an understanding of BREEAM and sustainability within the construction industry.
• A proactive individual who has interests in the construction, sustainability and healthcare industry.
• Any extra curricular activities which are relevant to STEM or the Construction industry

If you're interested in the role and would like to put yourself forward please hit APPLY. 

Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Sustainability Consultant, Sustainability Graduate, Engineering Administrator, Engineering Sustainability Consultant, Sustainability Management, Sustainability Support Officer may also be considered for this role.