Sustainability Consultant

The RPS Sustainability team is growing and we are looking for a talented and ambitious Sustainability Consultant to join the team.

The successful candidate will be part of our leading Sustainability team based at one of our Republic of Ireland offices (Dublin, Cork, Galway, Kilkenny or Sligo).

About RPS

We're RPS and our people are our success. We need people who share our passion on solving the problems that matter. Our flat structure creates greater collaboration and speed of communication and working with some of the brightest minds in the industry, we'll need your input.

RPS became the first Irish engineering consultancy to be verified to the PAS 2080:2023 standard by the British Standards Institute (BSI).

About The Role

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work on climate and sustainability projects for our portfolio of public and private sector clients. Working in a dynamic team environment, you will be developing climate and sustainability solutions which make a real difference for climate action, resource efficiency and biodiversity protection. The types of activities the role will undertake may include:

• Undertaking GHG emissions inventories (including scope 1, 2 and 3; whole-life cycle (WLC)), ongoing data management and validation;
• Preparing project and organisational carbon/sustainability strategies for clients, including Net Zero Carbon roadmaps and Science Based Target setting;
• Advising on low carbon renewable energy technologies within the built environment sector;
• Advising on Life Cycle Assessment of products and/or infrastructure elements and projects;
• Leading sustainability workshops on design and non-design projects;
• Integrating with multi-disciplinary teams across RPS providing sustainability advice and guidance.

Qualifications

• An honours degree (level 8 in the National Framework of Qualifications), or equivalent professional qualification in engineering or science;
• A minimum of 2-5 years working closely or directly with the built environment industry (preferable);
• Membership of an appropriate professional body e.g., IEMA, ICRS (an advantage) and working towards chartered status.

Experience

• Experience in working with engineering teams to develop low carbon design options.
• Excellent knowledge of relevant Irish and European climate, energy and environmental policy and legislation;
• Experience in undertaking carbon/energy management assessments (i.e., GHG protocol, PAS 2080:2023), and using data software (i.e., OneClick LCA, etc);
• Experience in collating and analysing sustainability data (i.e., carbon, circular economy, biodiversity enhancements, social value, etc.) for corporate reporting requirements;
• Experience in sustainable supply chain initiatives and embedding sustainability data requirements into procurement/contract management;
• Understanding and awareness of built environment best practice and standards (i.e., BREEAM, BREEAM Infrastructure);
• High standard of technical report writing skills;
• Excellent communication skills.

What's in it for you?

We're proud to be an accredited ILM training provider, internationally recognised and providing robust fully accredited professional training programmes - to master's degree level professional qualifications in leadership, management, executive coaching and mentoring.

RPS, a Tetra Tech Company

Representing an exciting new chapter in our business, in January 2023 RPS became a Tetra Tech company. With 28,000 employees in more than 550 offices in more than 120 countries on seven continents, Tetra Tech is a leading global provider of consulting and engineering services. As a Tetra Tech company, RPS is proud to offer our people market leading development and project opportunities, helping to solve some of the world's most complex problems.

Our projects are all around you. We define, design and manage projects that create shared value to a complex, urbanising and resource-scarce world. Our people are our success. We need people who share our passion on solving the problems that matter. And where you'll be supported every step of the way. Here is where you come to build a career.

Recruitment Agencies

We have a Preferred Supplier List of trusted partners to assist us when required and do not acknowledge any speculative CVs or unsolicited candidate introductions from agencies not on this list and any submitted will be taken as a gift. Please refer to the careers page on our website if you require any further information.