Sustainable Designer - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Veritas Design Group; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Veritas Design Group is seeking a Sustainability Consultant to lead sustainability initiatives within projects. You will develop sustainability strategies aligned with client objectives, conduct climate and energy assessments, and coordinate with multidisciplinary teams to meet certification requirements.

The role involves preparing sustainability reports, managing certifications, and ensuring compliance with environmental standards throughout design, procurement, construction, and handover

Job description

• Follow the company’s policies, procedures, sustainability commitments, environmental standards, and quality management system.
• Develop project sustainability strategies that align with the client’s objectives, project brief, budget, programme, statutory requirements, and applicable green-building rating systems.
• Conduct climate, site, energy, water, material, waste, transport, indoor environmental quality, carbon, and resilience assessments.
• Establish sustainability targets, performance indicators, design criteria, and certification requirements for each project.
• Advise the project team on passive design, energy efficiency, renewable energy, water conservation, sustainable materials, waste reduction, biodiversity, climate resilience, and occupant wellbeing.
• Coordinate sustainability requirements with the client, architect, engineers, landscape architects, quantity surveyors, contractors, suppliers, facility managers, and specialist consultants.
• Carry out or coordinate energy modelling, daylight analysis, thermal comfort analysis, carbon assessments, life-cycle assessments, water calculations, and other environmental simulations.
• Prepare sustainability reports, scorecards, compliance matrices, certification submissions, design recommendations, and supporting documentation.
• Manage applications for relevant green-building certifications and sustainability ratings.
• Review architectural, engineering, landscape, and interior design proposals to verify compliance with sustainability targets and certification criteria.
• Prepare sustainability specifications, schedules, tender requirements, and contractor obligations.
• Review contractor material submissions, environmental product declarations, product certifications, method statements, waste-management plans, commissioning plans, and sustainability evidence.
• Attend client, consultant, authority, certification, coordination, and site meetings.
• Conduct site inspections and audits to verify compliance with sustainability requirements, approved materials, environmental controls, and certification criteria.
• Monitor sustainability performance during design, procurement, construction, commissioning, handover, and post-occupancy stages.
• Identify sustainability risks, non-compliance, performance gaps, and opportunities for improvement, and recommend corrective action.
• Coordinate testing, commissioning, measurement and verification, building tuning, and post-occupancy evaluation where required.
• Ensure that sustainability-related as-built records, certificates, calculations, commissioning reports, operation manuals, and handover documents are complete.
• Maintain current knowledge of sustainability legislation, standards, rating tools, technologies, materials, and industry best practices.
• Perform any other duties assigned by the Management.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Prepare and submit accurate sustainability reports, calculations, assessments, and certification documentation.
• Verify that sustainability requirements are incorporated into the project drawings, specifications, procurement documents, and construction activities.
• Provide formal sustainability comments, recommendations, and compliance reviews within the authorized scope.
• Monitor and report the project’s performance against approved sustainability targets and certification requirements.
• Immediately report any material non-compliance that may affect certification, statutory obligations, environmental performance, operational efficiency, or the client’s sustainability commitments.