We are looking for a skilled and proactive Licensed BREEAM Assessor to join our multidisciplinary engineering consultancy. The successful candidate will hold current BREEAM Assessor licences for New Construction and Refurbishment and Fit-Out (Refit) schemes and will also be a qualified BREEAM Accredited Professional (AP).

Working within our building services engineering team, you will play a key role in delivering BREEAM certification, providing sustainability design advice, and carrying out Whole Life Carbon (WLC) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies for a diverse portfolio of projects, across a variety of sectors.

Primary Responsibilities

Project Role

• BREEAM Assessment and Certification
• Manage and deliver BREEAM New Construction and Refurbishment and Fit-Out assessments from concept through to post-construction stages.
• Coordinate evidence gathering, liaising with clients, design teams, and contractors to ensure compliance with BREEAM criteria.
• Advise on practical sustainability strategies to achieve desired BREEAM ratings within cost and programme constraints.
• Lead BREEAM pre-assessment and progress workshops, and prepare submissions to BRE for certification.
• BREEAM Accredited Professional (AP) Services
• Act as the BREEAM AP on key engineering and multidisciplinary design projects, ensuring sustainability is embedded from concept design through detailed engineering.
• Provide sustainability and environmental design input, advising project managers and engineers on opportunities to improve building performance.
• Facilitate sustainability charrettes and design review sessions to support clients’ environmental goals and net-zero targets.
• Whole Life Carbon (WLC) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
• Undertake Whole Life Carbon and embodied carbon assessments in line with RICS Professional Statement, LETI, and UKGBC frameworks.
• Carry out Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) using recognised tools such as OneClick LCA, eTool, or IMPACT-compliant software.
• Work closely with building services, structural, and civil engineers to integrate carbon reduction strategies into design solutions.
• Produce clear and concise carbon reports with actionable recommendations.
• Sustainability Reporting and Advisory
• Contribute to wider sustainability and ESG advisory services, including circular economy assessments, material efficiency studies, and net-zero strategies.
• Support the integration of sustainability metrics within engineering workflows and digital design processes.
• Stay abreast of updates to BREEAM, carbon methodologies, and evolving UK and EU sustainability policy.

Key Skills/Experience

Qualifications

• Licensed BREEAM Assessor for New Construction and Refurbishment and Fit-Out (current BRE licence essential).
• Qualified BREEAM Accredited Professional (AP).
• Proven experience delivering BREEAM assessments within a consultancy or engineering environment.
• Strong knowledge of UK building regulations, environmental standards, and certification systems.
• Demonstrated experience with Whole Life Carbon (WLC) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodologies.
• Competence using tools such as OneClick LCA, eTool, or similar carbon modelling software.
• Degree in Environmental Engineering, Sustainability, Building Services Engineering, or a related field.
• Excellent communication, coordination, and technical reporting skills.

Key Skills

• Familiarity with LEED, WELL, or Ceequal certification.
• Understanding of energy modelling and building performance simulation.
• Membership of a relevant professional institution (e.g., CIBSE, IEMA, RICS).
• Experience supporting net-zero carbon roadmaps or ESG strategy development.

Company benefits include

• Annual Leave of 20 days plus bank holidays
• Three days of additional holiday at Christmas. This is non-contractual, the dates are set by the company and these three days are not counted in your annual leave allowance within your contract.
• Employers pension contribution
• Life Assurance and Payment Protection Cover
• Group Income Protection scheme, including access to Legal & General health and wellbeing services
• Flexible working hours
• Bupa Health Insurance
• Four company socials per year
• Chartership support
• Professional membership cost covered (one per year at this level, two per year once associate level).
• Birthday leave – an additional day off on your birthday (to be taken in the month of your birthday).
• Alternate breakfast/lunch provided on Friday’s.

Interested? Please send your CV and portfolio to: careers(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)meinhardt.co.uk

Meinhardt (UK) Ltd reserves the right to alter the content of this job description to reflect changes to the job, without altering the general character or level of responsibility.