Location: London, Docklands campus Salary: £46,471 to £51,606 inclusive of London Weighting Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Permanent Placed On: 26th January 2026 Closes: 16th February 2026
About The Job
* You will take ownership of the day-to-day management of UEL's Energy and Water Management Systems, projects, and contracts and ultimately, responsibility for the energy and carbon performance of UEL's multimillion-pound estate.
* You will monitor usage, identifying and addressing peak and troughs in consumption, delivering impactful projects that reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions across the campus.
* You will bring your deep technical expertise and legislative understanding to ensure compliance, continuous improvement, and innovation in energy performance.
* You will embed sustainable practices into policies, procedures, and technical specifications, helping to shape and influence a culture of environmental responsibility across the organisation.
* Collaboration is key to this role. You will work closely with colleagues from Estates and Facilities including UEL's maintenance, security and facilities and teams and in particular the Sustainability team where your high-level autonomy and decision-making will deliver strategic improvement
* You will also work with academic colleagues and external partners and contractors to promote awareness of energy use and carbon reduction, particularly in relation to Scope 1 and 2 emissions.
* Your deep technical expertise will be instrumental in identifying opportunities for efficiency, influencing decision-making, and delivering measurable results.
* This is a technical-specialist and project-lead role with significant influence on UEL's sustainability strategy. You will be joining a supportive and dynamic team with a shared commitment to sustainability and positive change. If you are passionate about energy management and want to make a tangible impact within a values-led university, we would love to hear from you.
* To review and update the Energy and Carbon Management Policy and its accompanying Management Plan, ensuring it reflects the Environmental Sustainability Policy and accompanying Strategy and Action Plan, UEL's Vision 2028, is relevant and 'fit for purpose'. Take responsibility for its implementation ensuring it reduces energy use and carbon emissions across the estate. In short, ensure that each of the energy and carbon documents reflect the University's wider aims and objectives, its sustainability ambitions, KPI's, and targets while also addressing the SDGs, and are included of UELs suite of sustainable documents.
* Be the lead point of contact for energy and water management across the estate and assist with the commercial aspects of the Energy Performance Contract. Select, appoint, and manage energy and water consultants/ suppliers in line with other E&F managers at UEL where necessary.
* Manage the energy and utilities contracts, authorising payment of invoices, and chasing rebates, working closely with the UEL Finance Department, Development & Capital Delivery team, maintenance team and campus managers.
* Identify opportunities for new and innovative technologies that will support energy, carbon and water reduction projects across UEL, and raise the university's profile as sector leaders in tackling key impact areas.
* Oversee the management of the existing building metering system (BMS) and its strategy, identifying areas for expansion, and project manage the installation of a comprehensive automated submetering system. Ensure it is fit for purpose, generates reports as required, identifies anomalies and takes any appropriate corrective action where needed.
* Work with Senior Mechanical & Engineering Project Managers (internal and external) and UEL's Development and Capital Delivery colleagues and external teams to develop and implement energy specifications/energy benchmarking criteria to ensure that energy and water saving, and low carbon measures are incorporated in new build and refurbishment projects.
* Work with the Sustainability Team to develop and manage initiatives to raise and maintain energy and environmental awareness with staff, students and stakeholders.
* Support with any training and development programmes in place that develop energy, water and carbon management skillsets of staff across the UEL Estates and Facilities team. Brief the team on new products, initiatives and regulations and make clear their role in achieving cost and carbon savings.
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