Energy Engineering
Energy & Decarbonisation Programme Lead (Public Sector)
About Us
We are a team of enthusiastic and collaborative planners, designers, environmental consultants, engineers and health & safety professionals. Our client base includes public and private sectors. We have grown significantly over the last few years and now employ 200 individuals across the UK. Teamwork and a people-first culture are at the heart of everything we do and we wish to engage an enthusiastic professional to join our team.
About the Role
Key Responsibilities
Client & Market Development (Business Growth)
- Proactively identify and develop new opportunities across the public sector decarbonisation market
- Build relationships with estates, sustainability, and capital programme leaders
- Support and lead bid development, framework call-offs, and proposal submissions
- Contribute to development of new service lines, sectors, and technology offers
- Maintain strong understanding of the UK policy, funding, and framework landscape
Programme & Project Leadership
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of decarbonisation and energy efficiency programmes
- Manage multidisciplinary teams, budgets, and delivery risk
- Provide senior client liaison and governance reporting
- Translate strategies and audits into structured, deliverable programmes
- Oversee project lifecycle stages: strategy → feasibility → business case → procurement → construction → performance monitoring
Technical & Commercial Advisory
- Provide advisory services on: Low-carbon heat (heat pumps, heat networks, electrification), Whole-building retrofit (fabric first, MEP optimisation), On-site renewables and storage, and Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) models
- Lead development of funding business cases
- Support financial modelling and investment appraisal
- Advise on risk allocation, delivery models, and commercial structuring
Procurement & Contract Management
- Develop scopes for retrofit, low-carbon heat, and infrastructure works
- Support use of public sector frameworks including: CCS, RE:FIT, SCAPE, Pagabo, NHS SBS
- Ensure compliance with public procurement regulations
Stakeholder & Governance Management
- Coordinate technical, commercial, estates, finance, and leadership stakeholders
- Present complex information to non-technical audiences
- Support decision-making at Board and committee level
- Manage delivery assurance, reporting, and performance verification
About You
Essential Skills & Experience
- Significant experience delivering energy or decarbonisation programmes in the public sector or built environment
- Proven track record managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects
- Experience converting technical analysis into deliverable, investable programmes
- Strong understanding of: UK Net Zero policy & public sector drivers, Funding mechanisms and capital governance processes, Public procurement and framework-based delivery
- Strong data interpretation and asset planning capability
- Excellent client-facing communication and relationship skills
- Demonstrated involvement in business development, bids, or opportunity origination
Desirable Skills & Experience
- Experience with Energy Performance Contracting or RE:FIT-style delivery
- Background in engineering, building services, energy management, or infrastructure
- Financial modelling / business case development experience
- Knowledge of heat networks, retrofit delivery at scale, or estate-wide decarbonisation
Additional Information
- A full clean driving licence is desirable
- Legal right to live and work in the UK is required
- Competitive salary and attractive benefits package is offered, including, hybrid working, salary sacrifice schemes (EV, Cycle to Work, Holiday Purchase), cashback health plan, volunteer day