Senior/Principal Sustainability Consultant (Renewable Energy & Utilities)

TN United Kingdom; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and rapidly growing team in Glasgow as a Senior/Principal Sustainability Consultant. This role offers the chance to lead innovative renewable energy projects, manage client relationships, and develop your career in a supportive environment. You'll be part of a passionate team committed to delivering sustainable solutions and making a positive impact on the climate emergency. With flexible working arrangements and a culture that values diversity and inclusion, this is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of energy in the UK.

Benefits

Excellent health benefits

Early Friday finishes

Day off for good causes

Flexible benefits, including climate perks

Supportive colleagues

Development of soft and technical skills

Qualifications

• Experience in renewables, electrical MEP, or power engineering sectors.
• Project management experience with dispersed project teams.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing delivery of consultancy projects including Solar PV and battery storage.
• Managing and developing key client relationships.

Skills

Renewable Energy

Project Management

Client Relationship Management

Financial Modelling

Technical Leadership

Sustainable Design

Education

Degree in Engineering or Environmental Science

Tools

Project Management Software

Renewable Energy Modelling Tools

Job description

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Senior/Principal Sustainability Consultant (Renewable Energy & Utilities), Glasgow

Client: Hydrock

Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom

Job Category: Consulting

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference: 2425e7955943

Job Views: 8

Posted: 29.04.2025

Expiry Date: 13.06.2025

Job Description:

This is a brand-new role and prominent position in our talented, successful, and rapidly growing team in Scotland.

If you are a Principal or Senior Engineer/Consultant with a strong consultancy background in renewable energy generation and distribution, grid connections, battery storage or electrical building services engineering (MEP), this is an opportunity to join an established team, develop your career, and hone your leadership skills as this team grows in Scotland. You will work alongside those responsible for our Smart Energy & Sustainability proposition in Scotland, to grow this team.

As an inclusive employer, we are open to flexible working arrangements to suit personal circumstances. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and walks of life.

While the key focus is work winning, as well as project delivery, this new role is your opportunity to take the lead on:

• Overseeing project delivery for your own portfolio of schemes
• Managing and developing key client relationships
• Commercial management of projects
• Resource management for the team
• Team leadership, recruitment and development
• Line management of a portion of the overall team, which you can grow significantly

You can be based in any of these offices, with the flexibility to hybrid work and manage your work and life commitments with our trusting and supportive culture:

In an ever-advancing, volatile and high-growth sector, our opportunistic, agile and decisive culture will enable you to focus most of your time, energy and expertise on making a difference.

You’ll be welcomed into our collaborative and expanding team across the UK and contribute to developing and delivering exciting, cutting-edge, and complex projects.

We have a true enthusiasm for our work. If you do too, we’d love to hear from you.

Sounds good? This is Smart Energy & Sustainability.

So, what are we about?

We help clients unlock cheaper, cleaner, and more reliable energy and maximize the economic and environmental value of their projects, while delivering wider environmental and sustainability principles. From local authorities to universities, and from masterplan developers to asset managers and investors, we shape approaches to decarbonization and a net-zero future. Our high-growth, entrepreneurial, and agile business includes:

• Renewable energy and battery storage development and consultancy
• Addressing utilities constraints
• Net-zero carbon studies at project and master planning levels
• Planning application support, including energy strategies and environmental assessments
• Feasibility and business case assessments for heat decarbonization and heat networks
• Climate change studies
• Life-Cycle Carbon and Cost Analyses (LCCA)
• Carbon management verification

We’re passionate about our subject and shaping the UK’s response to the climate emergency.

Our team blends engineers and consultants, delivering a wide range of project inputs from inception onwards.

We are a lively, good-spirited team excited about our work, and we’ll give you a warm welcome too.

What will you be responsible for?

With a passion for sustainable design, innovative low-energy solutions, and understanding evolving legislative drivers, you will help develop our renewable energy and utilities consultancy and project development. Your key responsibilities include:

• Overseeing delivery of consultancy projects including Solar PV, battery storage, and wind at all scales
• Viability assessments and feasibility studies
• Power capacity and resilience assessments
• Project management
• Financial modelling and revenue forecasting
• Technical, economic, and environmental risk management
• Advising clients on planning, procurement, tendering, and implementation
• Developing scopes and fee proposals
• Liaising with specialist sub-consultants
• Supporting wider division activities on utilities, energy infrastructure, masterplanning, and carbon management

To succeed, you’ll need:

• A passion for net zero, innovation, and low-carbon solutions
• Experience in renewables, electrical MEP, or power engineering sectors
• Project management experience, including technical leadership of dispersed project teams
• Ability to collaborate with other disciplines
• A forward-thinking, enthusiastic approach

Additional desirable skills include:

• Knowledge of energy sector regulations
• Experience with renewable energy modelling
• Practical experience in renewable projects
• Analytical skills across scales (buildings to cities)
• Clear presentation of analytical information
• Understanding of energy performance, legal, and financial requirements
• Financial modelling and revenue forecasting knowledge
• Understanding of energy markets and grid connection processes

We support your professional growth aligned with your interests and market developments. Ultimately, you should aim to become a key technical advisor and a credible industry thought leader, with management aspirations for a sustainability services team.

What’s great about Hydrock, now part of Stantec?

We are a multidisciplinary engineering consultancy with over 900 staff across 21 UK offices. Our motivation is to be a ‘Force for Good’, improving lives through sustainable infrastructure projects that benefit communities and the environment. Recognized with awards like Building’s Engineering Consultant of the Year 2023, we deliver outstanding sustainable projects.

Our projects have received numerous industry accolades, including awards for conservation, regeneration, and design excellence.

Explore what we’re about and see how you can contribute.

What we offer:

• Supportive colleagues
• Reward for progression and effort
• Development of soft and technical skills
• Excellent health benefits and holiday allowances
• Early Friday finishes (4 pm!)
• Day off for good causes
• Flexible benefits, including climate perks and EV leasing schemes

Our commitment to inclusion:

We champion diversity, equity, and inclusion, supporting a safe environment for all employees. We consider all applications fairly and provide reasonable adjustments for disabilities or neurodiverse conditions.

Next steps:

Complete your application on our careers site. If shortlisted, a Talent Acquisition team member will contact you for a pre-screen. Successful candidates will be invited to interviews via video or in-office. Stay updated by connecting with us online!