Energy Engineering
Energy and Decarbonisation 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
Our specialist Energy & Decarbonisation group is expanding in response to significant public sector investment in Net Zero infrastructure. We are seeking a commercially astute and technically credible professional who can both originate new opportunities and lead the delivery of complex decarbonisation programmes across the UK public sector.
This is a hybrid business development and programme leadership role for someone who understands the market, funding landscape, procurement pathways, and delivery risks of public sector energy transition projects.
You will work with local authorities, NHS Trusts, education estates, central government bodies, and housing providers to translate Net Zero strategies into fundable, compliant, and deliverable programmes.
You will act as a trusted advisor to public sector clients, leading the development, procurement, and delivery of energy and decarbonisation programmes, while proactively supporting company growth through opportunity identification, client development, and bid leadership.
Key Responsibilities
1. 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
2. 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
3. Technical & Commercial Advisory
· Provide advisory services on:
o Low-carbon heat (heat pumps, heat networks, electrification)
o Whole-building retrofit (fabric first, MEP optimisation)
o On-site renewables and storage
o 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
4. Procurement & Contract Management
· Develop scopes for retrofit, low-carbon heat, and infrastructure works
· Support use of public sector frameworks including:
o CCS
o RE:FIT
o SCAPE
o Pagabo
o NHS SBS
· Ensure compliance with public procurement regulations
5. 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
Reporting To
Director
About You
Essential Skills & Experience
· Significant experience delivering energy or decarbonisation programmes in the public sector or built environment (Commercial Buildings)
· Proven track record managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects
· Experience converting technical analysis into deliverable, investable programmes
· Strong understanding of:
o UK Net Zero policy & public sector drivers
o Funding mechanisms and capital governance processes
o 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 in the Commercial Setting
· 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
Qualifications
· Degree qualified or equivalent in a relevant discipline
· Professional qualification
Additional Information
· This role is not for the Domestic Market and is for Commercial sites in the UK
· The role may require travel (including occasional overnight stays), depending on project requirements
· A full driving licence is necessary for this role
· Legal right to live and work in the UK is required
· Competitive salary and benefits package
· Hybrid working pattern