Could you help expand our air quality services in the North of England? If you have a background in air quality consultancy and can be based out of one of our northern offices (Manchester or Leeds) a couple of days a week, this role could be perfect for you.
The role will support with growing our air quality offering in the north of the UK, working alongside our global air quality lead.
About Buro Happold:
Buro Happold is an international, integrated consultancy of consultants, engineers and advisers. From helping shape entire cities to tackling the challenge of climate action, a career at Buro Happold presents the chance to make a difference. With a world class reputation, our work and our people have delivered positive change to clients, the environment, and communities alike. If you want to be part of something bigger, this is your chance.
Operating in 26 locations worldwide, with over 100 partners and over 3,000 employees; for over 40 years we have built a world-class reputation for delivering creative, value-led solutions across the world.
This Role Will Encompass:
Our Air Quality service line sits within the Environmental Consulting Discipline, at the heart of Buro Happold's Cities Group. This role will help to facility further growth within our air quality team with a particular focus on supporting our Northern offices.
Buro Happold are looking to support continued organic growth with the air quality services in the UK, by placing an air quality senior in one of our northern offices to head up the service offering to these offices. In particular, support is required to manage and deliver air quality design support and dispersion modelling to support planning and permitting applications.
We provide people with the opportunity to progress and work on interesting projects with a wide range of valued clients who operate both in the UK and internationally.
The successful candidate will support a wide range of on-going projects across sectors including residential, science and technology, commercial, international, industrial and energy. You will have a client-facing role with responsibility in terms of managing project delivery and teams.
We Are Looking For:
We would expect that you can demonstrate:
- A track record of leading air quality assessment, Air quality ES chapters including those for Development consent orders, and RIBA based design support in the UK;
- Contributing to marketing strategy and business development with a particular focus on the northern UK market.
- Expert in atmospheric dispersion modelling, particularly for the assessment of air quality impacts using ADMS road, ADMS 6 or AERMOD. Strong technical capability in this area with the ability to review and interpret data;
- Designing and implementing ambient and indoor air quality monitoring plans including both passive and automatic techniques;
- Thorough knowledge and demonstrable understanding of relevant legislation, policy, technical guidance and industry standards and best practice relating to air quality.
- Any existing experiences in indoor air quality is advantageous, with experience in building certifications including, BREEAM, WELL and Air Rated.
- Experience in Odour, Ecological and dust risk assessments.
- Proficiency in coaching and mentoring junior staff to develop their own technical skills;
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written;
- Working knowledge of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) – Q-GIS or ArcGIS.
- The ability to take the lead in challenging situations in a confident and proactive manner;
- Actively contributing ideas to identifying changes in working practices to maximise internal efficiencies;
- Track-record in the consultancy sector ideally with an engineering consultancy, with strong customer focus;
Excellent knowledge of project and business financial and management systems; and
- Have a degree in mathematics, physics, chemistry, environmental science, geography or a similar subject preferably with a related master’s degree and full Membership of the Institute of Air Quality Management or the necessary qualifications/ experience to become a Member.
Join us to find out what you’re really capable of.
What we offer you
Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world's most respected consultancies.
- Hybrid working arrangements
- Attractive salary
- Discretionary bonus
- Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements
- Generous company pension scheme, life assurance and income protection
- Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts
- Enhanced parenthood leave policies
- A strong commitment to continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you
- Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
- A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities
- An opportunity to support your local community and those in society that are most in need, wherever they are located in the world through our Share Our Skills (SOS) programme
- A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring
- An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won't be far from exceptional.
Apply now and be where exceptional is everywhere.
A place for everyone
Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.
Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.
We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.
Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application. #LI-TG1