Location: This role will cover the Europe Hub and would ideally be based near our Sale (Manchester), CEMC (Worksop) or Dartford offices.
Laing O'Rourke will be the recognised leader for innovation and excellence in the construction industry by 2025 with sustained high performance from 2023. Through our transformation, we will be a solutions provider that enables our clients and society - today and tomorrow - to prosper.
If you share our passion for reducing carbon in construction and have previous experience in work winning to drive our sustainability agenda, we would like to invite you to be part of our new approach that will accelerate the net-zero push and help clients meet their sustainability goals.
We are seeking a Whole Life Carbon Manager (Work Winning) to join our sustainability function and work alongside the Whole-Life Carbon Reduction and Transformation Lead. In this position, you will be embedded within the work-winning team and report to the Sustainability Communications Lead.
If you have a technical background, preferably in work-winning, and want to build your expertise around Carbon, we would be thrilled to speak with you.
Responsibilities:
* Evaluate all bids/questions as they arrive and support the development of carbon-related responses
* Identify client requirements, aspirations and future desires that could be successfully delivered by our offering, sharing these insights with wider team for inclusion in their plans (Technical, Procurement, Technology & Innovation)
* Learn and use One Click LCA software, or other relevant carbon measurement tools, as necessary to interrogate carbon data, provide estimates to support optioneering and decision-making and conform with governance processes
* Develop exemplar responses with appropriate evidence by following our work winning processes from storyboard through bronze, silver and gold review prior to submission.
* Support internal governance process working with bid teams to prepare relevant documentation and present/support at settlement meetings.
* Proactively recommend improvements through evaluation of submissions and client feedback and improve processes where appropriate
* Coordinate activities with all identified relevant stakeholders involved in pre-bidding, tendering and post-tendering, understanding the complementary nature of their activities
* Capture, develop and share evidence of exemplar sustainability performance from across the group for inclusion within future bids
* Upskill and mentor the wider technical and sustainability teams in bid writing, evidence statements, case studies and carbon concepts/terminology
* Contribute to the wider agenda of the function and organisational sustainability strategy, supporting the head of sustainability, social value and environmental leaders as required
Key Skills and Qualifications:
* Degree qualified in a relevant discipline (Engineering, Environmental, Quantity Surveying, Geography, or Marketing)
* Good understanding of work-winning procedures and how to develop a high-quality bid submission
* An outstanding writing style that is clear and concise
* Excellent coordination skills and ability to manage stakeholders and work as part of a team
* Excellent time management skills with the ability to thrive in pressurised situations, including ability to work on multiple projects and programmes and achieve tight deadlines
* Experience in construction of the built environment (both the public and private sectors)
* Understanding of carbon concepts, terminology and guidance as applied to construction and corporations, for instance Greenhouse Gas Protocol, RICS whole-life carbon assessment methodology, PAS2080.
* Understanding of broad sustainability concepts from environmental compliance, biodiversity and social value.