Sustainability Consultant

Company Description

Inhabit is committed to delivering future focussed, high-performance projects that make a positive impact on human experience, are considered, and play an integral role in supporting the necessary trajectory toward a low carbon future. Inhabit’s delivery approach provides employees opportunities to work as creative design partners with acknowledged industry leaders in Architecture, Engineering and Sustainable Design from concept to completion. Our specialist areas of expertise can be integrated to allow seamless interdisciplinary synergy to create buildings that are more relevant to evolving social, environmental and economic needs.

Our supportive work ethic includes exploring diverse opinions, developing creative mindsets and connecting career aspirations to project goals. We challenge ourselves to grow our technical excellence and consulting skills and closely support each other to do so. This, together with our commitment on inclusivity and diversity helps us to build great relationships in the workplace and with our clients. If you share in this belief, we invite and encourage you to join us in creating that future with Inhabit.

**Job Description**:
An exciting opportunity in our Singapore office is available for an experienced, creative, and motivated Sustainability Consultant to deliver projects, grow your career and connect with the local and national team. You will be collaborating with the best in the business, undertaking technical responsibility and delivery of Building Physics and Sustainability output on projects across various sectors, including design and analysis on building physics, sustainable building design, and engineering projects.

The role includes delivering sustainable and low-energy design projects in the built environment working closely with clients to help them predict, assess and improve their sustainability performance through a collaborative and well organised approach.

The Inhabit Building Physics and Sustainability team is internationally distributed across Australia and Asia, and is location independent, enabling access to projects across Australia, Asia, Europe, Americas and the Middle East based on skillset and capabilities. We provide technical advice across all stages of the project lifecycle, from business case and advisory to sustainability and carbon strategy to detailed modelling, construction, and post-occupancy. This means that we have a focus on real-world results guided by early phase quantitative and qualitative analysis.

**If this interests you, we are seeking someone who**:

- Has an appetite for learning new skills and a proven ability to manage delivery of multiple projects
- Is motivated by progressive thinking to find creative solutions with a growth mindset
- Explores beyond their comfort zone and challenging themselves to set, pursue and meet career goals through guidance by Senior / Associate in the team
- Understands the relationship between detail and the ‘bigger picture’, and has an appreciation for both
- Good oral and written communication and interpersonal skills to deal with both internal and external clients and colleagues (including international)
- Maintains workflow for existing clients while exploring client growth through proposal drafting, and contributing to case studies and other marketing material to exhibit our skill, capabilities and prestige associated with delivering challenging yet successful projects.

**Typical activities for this role include**:

- Delivery of excellent outcomes for our clients on matters relating to Building Physics (thermal, condensation, daylight, glare, reflectivity, etc.), Sustainable Design (Town Planning, Green Star, Passivhaus, etc.), and Sustainability Consulting (carbon strategies, business cases, etc.)
- Provide and/or assist with green building certification including but not limited to Green Mark, LEED and WELL, and become proficient in other rating tools as required.
- Representing Inhabit on projects, including site meetings, design workshops, site inspections and liaising with relevant stakeholders to meet client and project requirements
- Developing and maintain relationships with clients and project teams, such as developers, architects, main contractors, project managers, etc.
- Managing client relationships and expectations, through effective scope control, and offering creative solutions to surpass client needs.
- Supporting colleagues and projects across the national and international team in conducting assessments, modelling and reports of Life Cycle Assessment/ Embodied Carbon Analysis, Thermal Analysis, Reflectivity, Glare, Condensation and others as they become available
- Effective communication with clients, project teams, and colleagues, internationally where relevant

**Qualifications**:

- A degree / qualification in the built environment (engineering, architecture, building science or physics) is required, with mechanical engineering considered fa