Consultant - Carbon Advisory

Job description / Role

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.

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 bias, who are keen to learn and apply themselves in a dynamic and fast-paced consulting environment. In this role, you will have the opportunity to grow your experience and career at the forefront of the energy transition.

At Wood, we recognize the value of remote and hybrid working, so we are open to applicants throughout the Middle East and globally.

The Role

Our Carbon Advisory Consultants support clients by providing proven and 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 Consultant, you will support clients in completing baselining and lifecycle assessments, supporting the creation of decarbonization roadmaps, providing guidance on international and regional policies, and assessing climate-related physical risks.

To aid in your development, we have a library of training material for carbon advisory services and a companywide Energy Transition Academy where you can learn about the existing and emerging energy technologies and processes.

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, their ambitions, and our society. Our Carbon Advisory team is driving decarbonization across the globe; this position will be focused on our regional clients. 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.

Responsibilities

• Performing comprehensive Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas emissions inventories and baselines for equipment, units, facilities, and companies, including assisting clients to map energy and fuel usage.
• Performing lifecycle assessments and modeling.
• Data processing, interpretation, and analysis.
• Development and updating methodologies and tools for quantifying greenhouse gas emissions.
• Using Circular Carbon Economy principles to develop a multi-factor approach to meet wider sustainable development objectives.
• Supporting colleagues to identify and screen carbon reduction opportunities - feedstock, fuels, power sources, processes, and applicable technologies.
• Work with the other Energy Transition Hub segments to provide integrated solutions - CCS, hydrogen, and renewables.
• Preparation of technical study reports, presentations, and associated deliverables.
• Supporting the preparation of technical and commercial proposals.

You may read these details and are potentially thinking about not applying due to not having every single skill, knowledge, or experience listed, and that's understandable. However, we'd still like to hear from you. At Wood, we understand and acknowledge that everyone is different, and we are committed to equal opportunities and want to access all the talent that is out there. 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:

• University degree in process engineering, engineering science, or a technical environmental/sustainable development-related subject.
• Proven Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel.
• Analytical skills and the ability to systematically break a complex task into more manageable parts and identify the critical components of a problem.
• Awareness of the business environment, sector markets, and ongoing innovation in technology and research in climate-related subjects and issues. Knowledge and experience in the Middle East is preferred.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, including high-quality report writing and presentation skills.
• Good organizational skills.
• Keen to learn and to share learning with others.
• Good at working in teams with a flexible approach to work methods.

Desirable:

• Some work experience exposure to the energy sector or extractive industries.
• Experience in lifecycle assessment.
• Post-graduate qualification in a relevant discipline.
• Member or associate member of an internationally recognized professional body.
• Experience of compiling, analyzing, and interpreting large datasets.
• Experience in presenting and formulating attention-grabbing reports and presentation material.

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.