Head of Energy & Sustainability

Salary: £108,000 per year

Head of Energy & Sustainability – London – To £108,000 plus package

An exciting opportunity to join a fast growing Facilities Management Service Provider in London. They are looking for a Head of Energy and Sustainability to join their rapidly growing business. This is an exciting opportunity to build and maintain a sustainability and low carbon strategy for the company and to develop low carbon solutions for the client base.

Job Summary & General Duties:

• Manage the teams in identifying all the contract requirements in the contract documents and organise the contract teams to deliver them in a timely manner.
• Liaise with the Commercial team on procurement and contract changes within the allocated contract to maximise value for money.
• Build and maintain our sustainability strategy
• Build and maintain our low carbon energy strategy
• Build our pathway to net zero carbon by 2030
• Track and monitor our achievements against our agreed SDGs
• Work towards science-based targets
• Develop low carbon solutions for our customers
• Support our customers with sustainability initiatives
• Drive a culture centred on ESG initiatives
• Ability to understand and drive data led maintenance solutions
• Energy Auditing & Surveying
• Ensure over all compliance of all H&S legislation and issues relating to the contract portfolio and compliance with all internal & external audit processes.
• Ensuring interface with the client/s on H&S issues (completion of joint plans), policies and procedures.
• Communicating the company’s Vision, Mission and Values and company policy and procedures to contract teams to ensure implementation and adherence to them.
• Conducting team meetings to agreed frequencies and attend all necessary contractual meetings
• Build, support, develop and manage the team to ensure they are working collaboratively, ensuring client issues are resolved effectively and efficiently
• Drive forward the highest standards of service.
• Maximise financial performance and ensure budgets are managed.
• Maintain, develop, and enhance new and existing customer relationships
• Drive the highest level of results on H&S and service delivery issues
• Drive a service excellence culture among the team, establishing & utilising existing key performance indicators, benchmarks, and milestones to measure and demonstrate progress/ achievement against plans
• Develop and maintain improvement plans, both in the short and longer term, bringing ‘added value’ to our customers, in line with our Vision, Mission and values in a positive teamwork mind set
• Maintain regular contact with clients to ensure continued satisfaction, identifying potential problems early, giving the necessary management direction and support to put them back on track
• Seek out and deliver ‘added value’ innovative solutions to existing customers, which enhance the customers perception of us and differentiate ourselves from our competition in line with our value of ‘Innovation’
• To retain and enhance profitable, business for the organisation
• To represent the organisation as required
• To ensure compliance with the quality management system

Technical Requirements:

Essential

• ESOS Lead assessor
• Low Carbon Consultant
• TM44 Auditor
• Accredited CIBSE LCEA Level 5 assessor
• BMS and controls
• Energy Procurement, M&T, Benchmarking and Reporting
• Sustainability, SBEM and SAP calculations, well-being, and on-site generation

General:

• To be a ‘team player’ within the office
• Helping colleagues, as and when necessary, especially to meet deadlines
• Contribute effort towards Company Vision and Mission and observe Company values when actioning your objectives

Communication:

The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

• Communicate effectively with other team members
• Recognise people’s needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly

Personal/Professional Development:

The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the company as part of this employment, such training to include:

• Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
• Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.

Equality and Diversity:

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity, and rights of colleagues to include:

• Acting in a way that recognises the importance of people’s rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Company procedures and policies and current legislation.
• Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgemental and respects their circumstances, feelings, priorities, and rights.

Quality:

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the Company, and will:

• Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
• Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
• Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the team’s performance
• Effectively manage own time, workload, and resources

Health & Safety:

The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others’ health, safety and security as defined in the Health & Safety Policy, to include:

• Using security systems within the workplace according to Company guidelines
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and understanding such activities in a way that manages those risks.
• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
• Reporting potential risks identified.

Confidentiality:

• In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.

• Information relating to clients, colleagues, or the business of the Company may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Company policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.