Senior Specialist - Sustainability

JLL; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

JLL is seeking a Sustainability Engineer to join the Net Zero Design Consulting team in a role focused on decarbonising buildings and delivering high-performance, healthy environments. You will work on retrofit, fit-out, and property transactions aligned with ESG goals, leveraging NZC strategies, building analytics, and energy modelling tools.

You will contribute through detailed thermal modelling, data analysis, and coordination with design teams.

Qualifications

• A passion for sustainable and NZC buildings.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Some building services engineering and design abilities.
• A knowledge of building fabric elements related to energy efficiency is desirable.
• Aspirations to attain Chartered status beneficial.
• Competent in IES VE software and CIBSE TM 54 thermal modelling; familiar with IES Apache HVAC.
• Familiar with Part L/SAP modelling and related regulations.
• Competent in AutoCAD and ideally Revit; able to read AutoCAD/Revit drawings.

Responsibilities

• Review existing buildings from site surveys, energy data, and research to quantify key energy performance factors.
• Create detailed thermal models to define NZC requirements.
• Where needed, build more complex models at system/component level (e.g., Apache HVAC in IES).
• Conduct BRREAM/LEED, Part L and EPCs compliance modelling.
• Analyse building engineering and fabric factors to identify performance improvements.
• Align building analysis with European building regulation considerations.
• Develop building performance metrics where information is limited.
• Undertake whole life carbon assessments using OneClickLCA; training available.

Skills

Sustainability

Energy modelling

Building services

IES VE

AutoCAD

Revit

BREEAM

Passivhaus

WLCA

OneClickLCA

Reading drawings

Tools

AutoCAD

Revit

IES

OneClickLCA

Job description

Job Description

JLL empowers you to shape a brighter way .

Our people at JLL are shaping the future of real estate for a better world by combining world class services, advisory and technology for our clients. We are committed to hiring the best, most talented people and empowering them to thrive, grow meaningful careers and to find a place where they belong. Whether you’ve got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades or technology, or you’re looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, join our team as we help shape a brighter way forward.

We are looking for a Sustainability Engineer for our Net Zero Design Consulting team.

About JLL

We’s JLL. We’re a professional services and investment management firm specializing in real estate. We help organizations around the world achieve their ambitions by owning, occupying and investing in real estate.

If you’re looking to step up your career, JLL is the perfect professional home. At JLL, you’ll have a chance to innovate with the world’s leading businesses, put that expertise into action on landmark projects, and work on game-changing real estate initiatives. You’ll also make long-lasting professional connections through sharing different perspectives, and you’ll be inspired by the best. We’re focused on opportunity and want to help you make the most of yours. Achieve your ambitions - join us at JLL!

Role Purpose

JLL’s Sustainable Asset Services support the creation of resilient real estate assets for the future. We guide our clients through the evolving landscape of sustainability, to deliver their retrofit, fit-out or property transaction in accordance with their ESG goals and industry-leading practice. We help clients to decarbonise their buildings, protect assets from our changing climate and create better, healthier places for people.

We have a diverse team of engineers and sustainability professionals, which enables us to guide our clients through all sustainability requirements for projects, combining NZC with equally critical sustainability criteria, maximising opportunities to deliver best-in-class sustainable buildings. This also provides a great environment for personal learning and development.

We are a purpose driven team and aim to always be at the leading edge of what we do, to ensure that our clients are doing the right thing for the future.

What this job involves

• Reviewing existing buildings from site surveys, as built information, energy data and research; and quantify a building’s key energy performance factors
• Creating detailed thermal models to define a building’s engineering and architectural requirements for NZC
• Where necessary building more complex model to system component level, such as Apache HVAC in IES
• Some experience of compliance modelling for BRREAM/LEED, Part L and EPCs
• Analysing a building’s engineering and building fabric factors to determine opportunities to improve performance
• Aligning building analysis to consider related European building regulation issues associated with building performance
• Developing building performance metrics to compensate where limited or no information is available
• Undertake whole life carbon assessments using OneClickLCA. Training can be provided as required
• Strong excel skills to help with analysis. An ability to present data clearily and effectively is a key requirement
• Ideally some experience of Building Services systems in a design capacity or similar

You will need to have

• A passion for sustainable and NZC buildings
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Some building services engineering and design abilities
• A knowledge of building fabric elements related to energy efficiency is desirable
• Aspiring to attain Chartered status and understand the pathway to achieving this is desirable not mandatory
• Competent in IES VE software and CIBSE TM 54 thermal modelling. Ideally familiar with IES Apache HVAC
• Familiar with Part L/SAP modelling and up to date with the proposed changes to these regulations
• Competent in AutoCAD and ideally Revit, Candidate should be able to read/comprehend Auto-Cad/Revit drawings to create models
• An understanding of industry bodies and standards for NZC buildings and sustainability in the built environment
• An understanding of BREEAM and the Energy related credits and strong knowledge of BREEAM/MAT01 assessments
• Knowledge or experience in OneClickLCA is desirable
• Knowledge of Passivhaus Standard is desirable
• Experience in wider sustainability consulting, such as BREEAM, WELL and biodiversity is desirable
• An ability to sketch ideas and communicate with sketches rather than written text
• Good understanding of embodied carbon assessment
• RICS Whole Life Carbon Assessment (WLCA)
• Embodied carbon standards (ISO 14067, EN 15978, TM65, etc). Knowledge of all carbon standards not necessary, however it would be good to have knowledge of one or two carbon standards
• Ability to interrogate a material Environmental Product Dec