Associate/Associate Director Sustainability Consultant

The Team

For 45 years, Cundall has continued to evolve to become agents of change for a sustainable world, thought leaders in the built environment, and the best place for talent to grow and flourish.

We have been practicing what we preach, and we are the first consultancy to be endorsed as a One Planet Living company and the first to be certified Carbon Neutral. We also have a 2025 Roadmap in order to strategically increase the positive impact we have as sustainable designers and operators of 20 offices globally.

The Sustainability team works with Cundall’s wider global sustainable design practice which has delivered some of the most innovative and ecologically positive projects in a number of countries and all sectors of the built environment.

We have established a strong reputation built on providing excellent service and high-quality sustainability solutions. We work closely with clients to create the sustainability strategies they want, ensuring they are always prepared to the highest standards and incorporate creative design solutions.

Our world-leading, and growing, project pipeline needs more talent to deliver its sustainable design potential – contact us today to find out more about this exciting opportunity to join our team.

The Role

You will play a key role in leading and inspiring the Sustainability team in HongKong, driving our projects and enhancing client relationships whilst maintaining a strong focus on identifying and developing new business initiatives.

The wider team will provide support and training as you assimilate into the team. We are resourced as a single team with workload shared across offices to provide commercial security and support recruitment.

Working closely with colleagues of various disciplines, you will design, analyse, report and document Sustainability and Building Physics projects as well as present them to clients. You will work across a variety of sectors and will have the opportunity over time to assume greater levels of responsibility and autonomy as we support the development of your professional skills.

You will be responsible for client management and project delivery for our key work streams:

Sustainability design services

Net zero carbon services

Certification and compliance

Building physics and parametric model services

Building performance and operational energy optimisation

Health and wellbeing advice and guidance

Sustainable Strategy and Governance

The Skills

• Engineering, Architecture or built environment-related degree
• Chartered status
• Significant experience within Sustainability consulting, in the built environment sector
• Ability to lead projects and junior staff and represent the business positively to design teams and client organisations.
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of sustainability and building physics, particularly in relation to thermal comfort, passive design, compliance modelling and real operational energy assessments.
• An understanding of financial and resource management
• Knowledge of dynamic simulation software, mechanical design, and Sustainability rating systems, planning issues, climate-based daylighting analysis, operational energy calculation and life cycle assessments is highly desirable.
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills. Report writing skills are essential.
• Client liaison and relationship management throughout various stages of a project

Job Description

Why Join Cundall?

Valuing Diversity

We know that to be the best at what we do we need a diverse workforce underpinned by an inclusive culture. Creating environments where everyone can find joy doing their best work is also great for everyone. That’s why we positively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and identities, and encourage, support, and celebrate the diverse voices of our people.