Senior Consultant - Carbon Advisory
Job description / Role
Employment: Full Time
Overview
Will you help our clients unlock the solutions they need to their complex technical challenges that are foundational in tackling climate change? Through this highly rewarding role, you will be shaping the world and creating a bright future for yourself.
Wood is recruiting for a Senior Carbon Advisory Consultant. This is an exciting opportunity within our Carbon Advisory team in Abu Dhabi, covering the Middle East region. This role will work closely with our Middle East Energy Transition Hub, which serves as a regional focal point for innovation, collaboration, and expertise to support customers in transitioning to low-carbon energy systems whilst optimizing existing energy resources.
The Carbon Advisory Team sits across multiple sectors. The successful candidate will support clients in achieving their aims to reduce their carbon impact. This opportunity would be ideal for individuals with an engineering or environmental background, who are keen to continue and expand their career in a fast-paced consulting environment.In this role, you will have the opportunity to utilize your experience supporting our clients on their journey to a net-zero future.
At Wood, we recognize the value of remote and hybrid working, so we are open to applicants throughout the Middle East.
The Role
Our Senior Carbon Advisory Consultants support clients by providing proven agile decarbonization solutions to ensure targets are met. Our consultants will develop a systematic framework for the management of decarbonization including defining overarching strategies, plans, and detailed roadmaps with key milestones, journey enablers, timeframes, drivers, and identifying on-route threats, risks, and uncertainties.
In addition, as a Senior Consultant, you will partake in securing new work for the business, support in the management of a small team of consultants and engineers, and also support clients in completing baselining and lifecycle assessments, supporting with the creation of decarbonization roadmaps, providing guidance on international and regional policies, and assessing climate-related physical risks.
We have a library of training material for carbon advisory services and a companywide Energy Transition Academy to support your growth, which you will also be able to add to. You will have the opportunity to mentor and support the development of other consultants within the team, ensuring the knowledge and experience you have is shared to support the future of the team and industry.
Our Clients and Projects
It's a future for all of us. We aspire to shape a better tomorrow by unlocking solutions that address the biggest challenges facing our clients and our society. Our Carbon Advisory team is driving decarbonization across the globe. Our experts have a depth of experience providing proven and agile decarbonization solutions for the energy and materials industries.We are using our expertise to ensure clients meet decarbonization targets set by investors, governments, and key stakeholders. Our in-house capabilities include emissions baselining and assessment, decarbonization road mapping, lifecycle assessment, policy guidance, and climate risk assessments.
Through our work, we are supporting our clients on their journey to a net-zero future.
What We Can Offer- Meaningful and interesting projects delivered to leaders of industry across energy and materials sectors.
- Flexible working arrangements that balance client, team, and individual needs offering hybrid and remote working where relevant.
- Commitment to diversity and inclusion; we are an organization actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business.
- Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market.
- Commitment to continued professional development; development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests.
- Access to carbon advisory training - you can access a library of unique training material developed by experts within our team, take the opportunity to use these and add to them sharing your own expertise.
- Energy Transition Academy
- join a community of experts sharing your knowledge and gaining more exposure to a variety of existing and emerging energy systems
- delivered by experts in their field.
- Global connections - join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession.
- Supporting business winning and leading proposals to secure new work.
- Managing small teams of consultants and engineers or other technical staff on studies, setting clear technical direction and ensuring timely issue of deliverables.
- Completing work to a high standard and with little to no supervision, using Wood and client methods, standards, and data in line with requirements.
- Disseminating knowledge and expertise to team members and providing oversight and technical direction for their study/project work.
- Developing business relationships with clients and partnerships with in-house consulting teams.
- Representing the Carbon Advisory team in technical presentations to external and internal customers.
- Providing a technical interface and managing relationships with clients. Proactively identifying most internal and external customer needs or issues.
- Raising awareness of the business environment, market, and ongoing innovation in technology and research in climate-related subjects and issues.
- Working with the other Energy Transition Hub segments to provide integrated solutions - CCS, hydrogen, and renewables.
- Developing tools and methods to improve the efficiency and quality of work performed by the team.
- Liaising with and supporting the Business Manager in tracking study/project activities.
We are committed to attracting a broad range of skills, knowledge, and experiences and embrace differences. So even if you feel you don't have everything listed, but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge, or skills to help us unlock solutions to the world's most critical challenges, do apply.
Qualifications
Expected:
- Master's degree (or higher) in Process Engineering, Engineering Science, or a technical environmental/sustainable development related subject.
- Demonstrated ability to lead business development and project teams.
- Demonstrated proficiency in international best practices in energy and carbon efficiency.
- A thorough understanding of the international policy and economic frameworks driving climate change agendas.
- A good understanding of carbon emissions quantification, decarbonization techniques, circular carbon economy, and energy transition. Knowledge and experience in the Middle East is preferred.
- Strong analytical skills and can systematically break a complex task into more manageable parts and identify the critical components of a problem.
- Excellent communication skills both verbally and written, demonstrable high-quality report writing and presentation skills.
- Good organizational and project management skills.
- Keen to learn and to share learning with others.
Desirable:
- Demonstrable background in decarbonization studies and/or lifecycle assessments.
- Experience in assisting clients to map energy and fuel usage and associated carbon equivalent emissions.
- Experience in assisting clients to identify and screen emissions reduction opportunities.
- Chartered to an internationally recognized professional body (or working towards).
- Good negotiation skills.
- Second language - Arabic is a plus.
About the Company
Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people.
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