Senior Consultant - Sustainability
Atkins Realis Group
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Job Description
Roles & Responsibilities
Your role
- Develop a thorough understanding of the Client s master plan, infrastructure, and public realm, ensuring sustainability requirements remain aligned as designs evolve throughout the project lifecycle.
- Lead the coordination and implementation of LEED for Cities and Communities (LfC) and Mostadam.
- Communities certification requirements across all master plan, infrastructure, public realm, and transport / civil structure packages.
- Monitor design and construction activities across development boundary, ensuring ongoing compliance with sustainability standards and proactively addressing risks and gaps.
- Establish and maintain a Smartsheet tracking document to monitor certification progress, scores, risks, and issues at both masterplan and asset level, with monthly updates in coordination with PMCs, consultants, and contractors.
- Act as the primary focal point for stakeholder engagement, including managing communications with certifying bodies and relevant authorities.
- Prepare and manage all certification documentation, including narratives, technical studies, simulations, and operational policies on behalf of Client.
- Coordinate and manage certification submissions, responding to review comments and driving processes through to final Mostadam Communities certification award and maintaining the already achieved LfC certification at hand.
- Lead and participate in regular progress meetings, providing clear updates on status, risks, and mitigation actions.
- Deliver monthly reporting summarising activities, progress, and key issues, in line with DC requirements.
- Manage certification registration and administration, including coordination of submissions, documentation, and associated processes.
- Provide sustainability inputs into tender documentation, including technical requirements and contract clauses aligned with LfC and Mostadam Communities, and masterplan objectives.
- Undertake regular site visits and engage directly with design and construction teams to verify implementation and drive performance.
- Act as a Mostadam Accredited Professional (AP), leading certification registration and engagement with Saudi Sustainable Building authorities.
- Support in review of asset-level design and construction submissions to ensure compliance with LEED, Mostadam, and Parksmart requirements.
Desired Candidate Profile
Key Competencies
- The successful candidate will be educated to degree / higher degree level in relevant subject (Engineering, Sustainable Energy, Building Services Engineering, Sustainable Development etc.) and will have achieved, chartered status and / or full or fellow membership of a recognized relevant professional body.
- 8-10 years experience across the fields of sustainability and certification in buildings and developments, including project management and business development experience.
- Experience in leading projects involving city / community scale sustainability certification appraisals (BREEAM, LEED, WELL, Mostadam), community scale carbon footprints, climate change assessments, net zero transitions (embodied or net zero operational buildings), or related services.
- Strategic sustainability advisory across large-scale, multi-asset developments.
- Deep knowledge of Mostadam Communities and LEED for Cities & Communities frameworks to achieving certification at the design and construction stages.
- End-to-end certification management, including evidence collation and submission.
- Understanding of sustainability strategies at project, portfolio, and organisational levels
- Familiarity with Middle East regulatory context, particularly KSA frameworks and authorities.
- Strong engagement with regulatory bodies (NHC, SB, GBCI)
- Manages and coordinates incoming documentation, ensuring efficient tracking, review, and alignment across stakeholders.
- Reviews and assesses design information directly using AutoCAD and related tools to validate compliance and technical integrity.
- Critically reviews and challenges shade and microclimate assessments, ensuring robustness of methodologies, assumptions, and outcomes.
- Managing multiple stakeholders across client, internal teams, design teams, contractors and authorities.
- Coordination of complex, multi-disciplinary workstreams across large mixed use development that has portions under design, re-design and construction.
- Oversight of deliverables across UAE, KSA, and India teams.
- Ensuring quality assurance, governance, and consistency with AtkinsR alis standards
- Proven experience in business development and bid management within secondment role, including initiating opportunities with Client to preparing comprehensive technical and commercial proposals.
Personal Attributes
- Proactive, self-driven, and comfortable working in an embedded client role
- High level of accountability and ownership
- Strong organisational and problem-solving skills
- Adaptability in a fast-paced, evolving project environment
- Must have Mostadam Communities accreditation and at least one of the following credentials:
- LEED Accredited Professional (LEED AP) with specialty (BD+C, ID+C, O+M, ND, Homes)
- WELL Accredited Professional
- Low Carbon Consultant/Low Carbon Assessor
- Other credentials focused on sustainability and sustainable development.
Company Industry
- Engineering Design & Consulting
Department / Functional Area
- Engineering
Keywords
- Senior Consultant - Sustainability
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Atkins Realis Group
We're AtkinsR alis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.