Job Description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

We are seeking a Principal Consultant to support the growth and delivery of our WLC & C services within Sustainability Advisory. This role combines technical leadership in WLC with broader sustainability consultancy responsibilities, including project delivery, bid support, client engagement, mentoring and team development.

The successful candidate will bring strong experience in carbon assessment and reduction across infrastructure and the built environment, with particular expertise in the application of carbon tools. They will help deliver high-quality client outcomes, support business development and work-winning activity, and contribute to the continued growth of our carbon and circularity services.

Role accountabilities:

• Lead and deliver WLC & C commissions across infrastructure and built environment projects, ensuring outputs are robust, proportionate and aligned with client and regulatory requirements.

• Lead and review WLC assessments using OneClick LCA or client led carbon tools, identifying carbon hotspots, testing reduction opportunities and communicating findings clearly to clients and project teams.

• Support wider sustainability delivery across bids and projects, including Sustainability by Design (SbD), workshops, design reviews, reporting and technical advice.

• Work collaboratively with project managers, engineers, designers and sustainability specialists to embed carbon and circularity into project decision-making and design development.

• Build strong client relationships, acting as a trusted advisor and helping to identify opportunities to grow Arcadis’ support.

• Contribute to proposals, bids and client presentations, supporting work winning and the growth of the SA business.

• Provide technical review and quality assurance for work prepared by others, ensuring consistency, clarity and technical credibility.

• Mentor and support junior team members, helping to build capability in carbon, circularity and broader sustainability delivery.

• Contribute to the development of tools, approaches, thought leadership and service propositions within SA.
• Apply innovative thinking and positively challenge conventional approaches to help clients and project teams deliver lower-carbon, more circular and better-value outcomes.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Strong experience in WLC assessment and carbon reduction in the built environment.

• Sound practical knowledge and application of OneClick LCA, including modelling, interpretation of results and technical review.

• Good understanding of CE principles and their application to design, procurement and project delivery.

• Broader sustainability experience, with the ability to support related topics such as SbD, environmental management, resource efficiency and wider design advisory.

• Good knowledge of relevant standards and frameworks, including RICS Whole Life Carbon Assessment Methodology, UK Net Zero Carbon Building Standard, PAS 2080: 2023 Carbon Management in Infrastructure and the Built Environment, and IEMA EIA Guide to Assessing GHG emissions, BS EN 15978, BREEAMi and associated industry guidance.

• Experience of working within multidisciplinary teams and engaging confidently with clients, designers and contractors.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present technical information clearly and persuasively.

• Experience supporting bids, client engagement and business development.

• A collaborative approach, with the ability to mentor others and support team development.

• Experience of integrating carbon and cost considerations to help identify practical, value-led project solutions.

• Degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline.

• 7+ years experience in a relevant field.

• Relevant professional membership or progress toward chartership.

• Experience across infrastructure, buildings or major programmes.

• Experience in mentoring or line management.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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