Principal Consultant - Climate Risk and Resilience (UK)

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What’s the role?

BMT is looking for a Principal Consultant - Climate Risk and Resilience to deliver professional consulting work with a specialisation in climate-related projects. We are seeking someone who can demonstrate one (or more) of the following skill areas: climate change mitigation/decarbonisation, climate resilience or climate adaptation, which will be drawn upon in planning and conducting projects. As Principal Consultant - Climate Risk and Resilience you will act as project manager and subject matter expert to deliver successful projects and to build BMT’s brand reputation for superior, quality, technical work with a high customer focus.

As Principal Consultant Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Providing strategic, statutory and practical advice to clients about climate risk and resilience across a variety of sectors
• With the assistance of the regional Future Business team, growing market awareness, capability and market share within the UK and Europe in the climate risk and resilience market
• Supporting business development, marketing and sales relevant to the climate and environment market sector in the UK and Europe by liaising with clients, as well as building partnerships with other consulting and academic organisations
• Project managing a range of projects with a high degree of oversight and planning, ensuring projects are executed to time and budget constraints and to client satisfaction
• Delivering high quality and professional technical work, involving independence in approach and a high degree of originality, ingenuity and judgement
• Preparing, reviewing and submitting proposals/ tenders, as well as marketing material and methods relevant to the role
• Sharing knowledge, providing technical advice and acting as mentor to other staff within your area of expertise
• Contributing to thought leadership activities through your work and by authoring papers, social media posts, presenting at events, seminars and conferences
  

This is a permanent and full time role, which can be based out of one of our UK offices. We particularly welcome applications from candidates close to our Leeds or London locations. We offer flexible and remote working options to give our staff choice and adaptability; so this role will allow you to combine office and homeworking.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for an experienced Consultant who is an existing or emerging subject matter expert in one, or more, of the following skill areas: climate change mitigation and decarbonisation, climate change resilience and/or climate change adaptation with strong problem-solving capability.

You will have a Bachelor’s degree in Science, Engineering, Planning or other relevant area of study alongside considerable experience post-graduation in a consulting, government or applied research capacity undertaking projects.

We are looking for someone who can demonstrate an entrepreneurial focus, with the ability to both win work and deliver work. You should be client focussed, a strong communicator and commercially aware.

If you also have experience of working within the Government, Defence, Transport or Resources sector or have a Masters or PhD in a relevant area of study then we would love to hear more about this, but it is not essential.

What can we offer you?

At BMT we believe in hiring the best talent, from diverse backgrounds, as this introduces new ideas to the team and our customers. We appreciate the importance of having a solid development structure and we ensure that our people have access to the training and mentoring they need to be the best at what they do. We constantly strive to improve our working environment and provide everyone with the tools and applications that they need to do their roles effectively.

Benefits

On top of this, we have a host of benefits and family friendly policies designed to support our people including

The well-being of the team is central to our success, so workloads are managed effectively and we promote agile working, so our working hours are flexible.

• Competitive salary
• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Holiday trading - the option to buy and sell leave
• Private medical insurance
• Personal Wellbeing Fund to spend every year on hobbies, sports and classes
  

There’s lots more that we offer too and our full range of benefits will be discussed at interview. BMT is an equal opportunities employer. We believe that the principles of diversity, equality and inclusion are critical to being an effective and successful business, with employees who are engaged, feel a sense of belonging and are happy to be themselves in the workplace. We are establishing a number of Employee Network Groups to represent and support diversity within our workforce.

What do we do?

BMT provides independent consultancy services and technical expertise to our customers. We offer concept design, asset management, programme management and technology & through life support services to customers in the defence, security, transport, energy and infrastructure markets. Our team thrive on tackling the most complex engineering and programme challenges, and are adept at blending capabilities from the entire spectrum of engineering disciplines to deliver enduring and value-adding solutions.

Whatever the project, we help our customers to deliver the right outcomes, optimise their assets, improve performance and increase efficiency - from working with the Metropolitan Police Service on business transformation, the rollout of Smart Meters across the UK to designing the Queen Elizabeth Class carrier and maintaining the Royal Navy’s in-service nuclear submarines.

As an Employee Benefit Trust, we are independent of external stakeholders and have the freedom to put our people and our customers first.

We are proud holders of the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme Gold award.

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Does this sound like you? If so, please submit your application as soon as possible. We look forward to learning more about you.