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Building Performance Lead (Building Physics)

West Yorkshire
£60,000 - 65,000
Building Physics / Energy
Permanent
14 Jul 2026
BPEBPL/DLMS/NE
Job Vacancy

Our Client is a people focused, environmentally responsible engineering consultancy with a network of offices across the UK. They deliver intelligent, sustainable solutions to complex design challenges across the built environment, throughout the country and beyond.

Services span a broad range of engineering and consultancy disciplines, including building ser-vices (MEP) and sustainability. Highly skilled teams combine technical expertise with creative problem solving to bring buildings to life.

The sustainability division provides a diverse range of services that champion sustainable development across all sectors. As industry leaders in sustainable design, construction, and building operation, the sustainability team thrives on a dynamic, innovative, and ambitious culture continuously striving for higher standards of environmental performance.

Recent commissions include:

Decarbonisation audits for local authorities

Campus wide masterplanning for zero carbon technologies

Design guidance for the decarbonisation of leisure facilities

 

Role Description

Duties include:

  • Responsibility for undertaking and supporting others on a range of detailed analyses, including, but not limited to: Energy compliance
  • Overheating compliance
  • Daylight calculations
  • Detailed energy modelling
  • Decarbonisation studies
  • Post occupancy evaluations.
  • Liaise with Building Performance Lead to update on resourcing, deliverables, bottlenecks.
  • Guide project teams through local planning requirements.
  • Deliver kick-off meetings internally to coordinate sustainability design with MEP engineers.
  • Provide early-stage consultation to design teams and clients to optimise passive and low-carbon design.
  • Support design team and contractor to ensure delivery of contracted employer’s requirements.
  • Autonomous delivery of compliance related modelling, including technical accuracy and meeting deadlines.
  • Support the development of workflow processes of the Building Performance team.
  • Take responsibility for design co-ordination between the engineering team, their designs and the Building Performance work.
  • Work alongside the engineering teams to help develop de-carbonisation studies.
  • Assist the business in delivering post occupancy evaluations.
  • Produce detailed and coordinated sustainability reports for each assessment which clearly and concisely show the methodology used, targets and summary of results.
  • Support, train and quality check other team members’ work.
  • Liaise with contractors and their supply chain to improve their specifications

 

Preferred Competencies

  • Experience delivering industry wide environmental assessment methods. This shall include SAP, SBEM , Planning
  • Proficient use of IESve
  • Exposure to sectors including Offices , DfE  ,Leisure Centres , High-Rise Residential
  • Delivery of projects across RIBA Stage 0 – 7.
  • Member of an accredited organisation in the Built Environment.

 

Organisation Structure

Reporting to Associate Director of Building Performance, the successful candidate will lead the delivery of building physics projects across teams based in multiple offices.

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