Whole Life Carbon Delivery Manager

Delivery Whole Life Carbon Manager
Location: Dartford, Sale, Worksop, Oldbury or St Neots - National role with regular travel to project sites

As Delivery Whole Life Carbon Manager, you will join our Carbon Solutions team within the Sustainability function, playing a key role in supporting projects during the construction phase. You will lead project engagement on whole life carbon, ensuring effective measurement, management, and reduction of embodied and operational emissions.

Working across multiple projects and sectors, you will manage and develop a team of specialist carbon advisors while collaborating closely with design, construction, and support teams. This role offers a strong opportunity to influence both project outcomes and wider business strategy in carbon reduction.

This is a national role with regular site travel and flexible/home working options. Proximity to key offices (Dartford, Sale, Worksop, Oldbury, or St Neots) is beneficial.

Key Responsibilities

Project Delivery & Carbon Management

• Provide whole life carbon support to projects throughout construction.
• Oversee carbon measurement, management, reduction, and reporting processes.
• Ensure alignment with project requirements, contractual commitments, and carbon targets.
• Act as the key escalation point for carbon-related risks and issue resolution.

Leadership & Team Development

• Line manage and support the development of carbon advisors.
• Work with leadership to ensure effective resourcing across projects.

Governance, Reporting & Assurance

• Ensure accurate and transparent carbon reporting to clients and internal stakeholders.
• Maintain compliance with carbon management systems and support PAS2080 audits.
• Provide quality assurance for project data and deliverables.

Continuous Improvement & Strategy

• Capture and share lessons learned to improve systems and processes.
• Support the development of data systems and long-term carbon strategy.
• Contribute to carbon literacy and training initiatives across the business.

Stakeholder & Industry Engagement

• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across projects and functions.
• Represent the organisation in industry forums and working groups.

About You

• Strong passion for sustainability, carbon reduction, and climate resilience.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence outcomes.
• Minimum 8 years' experience within design and/or construction environments.
• Proven experience in carbon measurement and management practices.
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities.
• Commercial awareness and ability to balance programme constraints with carbon objectives.
• Ability to clearly communicate data, risks, and opportunities to a range of audiences.

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering, Architecture, Environmental, Commercial, or a related field (Master's preferred), or equivalent experience.
• Membership of a relevant professional institution (e.g. Chartered Engineer or Chartered Environmentalist), or equivalent experience.

About Us

Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme and let us know if you require any adjustments for the interview process.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com

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