Workman LLP

WLCA & Technical Sustainability Consultant

Workman LLP

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Bristol • United Kingdom

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Salary

💰 £30,000 - £35,000 per year

About the role

  • We are growing our Sustainability Advisory team and are seeking a technically minded Consultant to support our expanding pipeline of Whole Life Carbon Assessments (WLCA) and wider decarbonisation work across our commercial property portfolio.
  • You’ll work closely with our WLCA Lead and the wider Sustainability team to produce high quality assessments that directly shape client design decisions.
  • Your work will span embodied carbon, operational energy inputs, benchmarking, and whole life modelling.
  • Delivering robust technical analysis that strengthens the accuracy, credibility, and impact of our WLCA outputs and decarbonisation recommendations.
  • Supporting project teams with reliable data, well structured models, and clear documentation that enables confident decision making throughout design stages.
  • Contributing to a culture of quality, precision, and continuous improvement across our technical sustainability workflows.
  • Extracting material quantities and specifications from drawings, cost plans, and schedules
  • Sourcing and validating Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs)
  • Building, maintaining, and checking WLCA model inputs using tools such as One Click LCA or Excel
  • Supporting the delivery of baseline, concept, and developed-design WLCA outputs
  • Preparing charts, summaries, visualisations, and recommendations for client-facing reports
  • Assisting with energy modelling inputs, benchmarking, target-setting, and Net Zero pathway analysis

Requirements

  • A grounding in the built environment whether through architecture, engineering, QS, sustainability, or a related discipline and the ability to interpret drawings, schedules, and specifications.
  • Strong analytical skills, excellent Excel capability, and confidence handling structured datasets, along with a detail-driven approach to technical problem-solving.
  • Exposure to WLCA, embodied carbon, material take-offs, or environmental modelling, and the motivation to deepen your expertise in these areas.
  • Ideally, familiarity with embodied-carbon tools (e.g., One Click LCA, eTool), basic building physics or energy-modelling concepts, and experience within design-stage workflows or certification schemes such as BREEAM.
  • Additional beneficial experience includes cost planning, quantity surveying, or knowledge of UK Net Zero Carbon standards but these are not essential.
  • An understanding that this role is not corporate ESG reporting, policy, comms, or a generalist sustainability graduate pathway. This is a technical, delivery-focused role for someone committed to low-carbon building performance.
Benefits
  • Hybrid working to offer you a great work life balance, with a minimum of three days in the office.
  • Core working hours to allow for added flexibility and helps ease your commute to the office.
  • Study support
  • Discretionary annual bonus and salary reviews.
  • Healthcare, life insurance & wellness programme.
  • Long service additional holidays, your birthday off and an extra day between Christmas and New Year.
  • Lifestyle benefits to suit you: gym membership, cycle to work, buy and sell holiday to name just a few.
  • Social events throughout the year including a firm wide Christmas party!
  • Generous referral bonus.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
Whole Life Carbon Assessmentsembodied carbonoperational energy inputsbenchmarkingwhole life modellingdata analysisenergy modellingmaterial take-offstechnical problem-solvingNet Zero pathway analysis
Soft skills
analytical skillsdetail-driven approachcommunicationcollaborationcontinuous improvement