Building Performance Associate

Building Performance Associate Consultant

Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter or Plymouth

We are currently recruiting for a Building Performance Associate to join our Performance Group.

The Performance Group was formed in 2014 and is the hub around which our knowledge and understanding of how buildings truly perform is centred. The current primary focus of the group is to help clients deliver on their Net Zero Carbon aspirations. This is an excellent opportunity to be at the leading edge of a revolution in the construction industry.

About us

Hoare Lea is an award-winning engineering consultancy with a creative team of engineers, designers and technical specialists. We provide innovative solutions to complex engineering and design challenges for buildings.

Irrespective of the scale or complexity of a project, we provide a full range of MEP, environmental and sustainability services, bringing buildings to life and ensuring that they perform in operation as well as they look.

Hoare Lea has joined Tetra Tech’s High-Performance Buildings Group, a global alliance of MEP firms.

Why work for us?

You’ll collaborate with the industry’s best, working with a wide range of built-environment specialists.

You’ll be part of progressive and exciting projects, able to experience innovative schemes across all sectors.

You’ll advance your career, your way, thanks to our structured Career Paths framework.

The role

We are looking for someone who can provide a lead role in an integrated project design team with other construction professionals and act in a professional, personable and competent manner.

We are seeking a person who can positively Lead a project team and proactively support and motivates project team members while delivering to demanding timescales.

You will be involved in the following:

• Delivering net zero carbon on existing buildings.
• Managing a portfolio of projects.
• Dealing successfully with Clients and other professionals.
• Advising and assisting clients on their journey to improved building performance.
• Offering advice on building system optimisation and energy consumption.
• Attending site to problem solve both engineering and procedural problems.
• Actively promoting all services offered by HL to assist Client's projects.
• Defining and agreeing brief with Client.
• Taking ownership and contributing towards delivering profitable schemes.
• Competently representing Hoare Lea at project meetings.
• Managing and prioritising the workload of a project team including specialist groups.
• Contributing to the professional development of individual team members.
• Effectively delegating, managing and checking work undertaken by others.
• Developing effective relationships.
• Monitoring project expenditure and reporting to team leader.
• Ensuring quality standards and technical accuracy is delivered.
• Identifying and highlighting risks to business.
• Actively sharing technical knowledge across the firm.
• Effectively reporting and openly communicating at all levels internally and externally.
• Takings responsibility for achieving design objectives.
• Manages and motivate colleagues within the HL team.
• Reports cost and resource requirements to the team leader on a regular basis.
• Gets involved in industry initiatives designed to promote the importance of building performance.

What we are looking for

Someone with

1. Excellent client relationship management.
2. An understanding and interest in building users.
3. A passion for finding out how buildings perform and how they can be improved
4. The ability to comfortably engage with stakeholders at different levels.
5. The ability to adapt to different projects and tasks.

Someone who is

1. qualified and recognized in industry preferably with Chartered status
2. Interested in zero carbon buildings.
3. Comfortable in a fast moving and dynamic team.
4. A creative problem solver able to think outside of the box

Someone who has

1. a good understanding of other disciplines
2. Excellent written and spoken English skills
3. Excellent organisational and planning skills to effectively work to timescales and deadlines
4. In-depth relevant industry experience
5. A positive can-do attitude.
6. Enthusiasm for the role.
7. Previous experience of energy consumption or building controls
8. Strong data analysis skills.
9. Experience of mentoring junior members of staff.
10. an understanding of project fee expenditure and resourcing.

Our benefits

To reward your hard work and commitment we offer both core and flexible benefits, a competitive salary and industry-leading training and development to support you throughout your career.

Core benefits

Private medical scheme

Life Assurance

Income protection

Travel Allowance – electric car scheme

25 days annual leave, increasing to 30 with length of service

Contributory pension scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Enhanced Paternity, Maternity & Shared Parental Leave

Season Ticket Loans

Professional membership subscription

Flexitime

Flexible benefits

• 9-day fortnight – the firm offers all employees the option to work a 9-day fortnight
• Hybrid Working – activity-based approach
• Employee stock purchase plan – a voluntary program which allows eligible employees to purchase Tetra Tech common stock at a 15% discount
• Holiday buy & sell up to 5 days
• Study Assistance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Referral Scheme
• Sabbatical Leave
• Other flexible benefits include gym and retail discounts, travel & dental insurance and GAYE (Give as you Earn)
• Flexible working - We’re happy to discuss flexible working. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage

How to apply

To apply simply complete a CV profile and submit your application, or for further information please contact aureliacherradi@hoarelea.com

Diversity, equity and inclusion

We are committed to being a place where underrepresented individuals and communities are not just included, but where marginalised knowledge and experience is valued, amplified, and harnessed. So, we strongly encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, including women, people of the Global Majority, LGBTQ+ individuals, disabled people, neurodivergent people, and those from all other underrepresented or marginalised groups. To learn more about our approach to diversity, equity and inclusion, see our DEI strategy.

Adjustments and accommodations

If there are adjustments or accommodations that we can put in place to ensure you can participate and give your best at any stage of the recruitment process (whether relating to disability, neurodivergence, or anything else) please let us know.

Flexible working

We are committed to enabling a healthy work-life balance for all employees. So, we welcome applications from candidates seeking flexible working arrangements to suit their particular needs and lifestyle, including part-time, term-time-only, and remote working.

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