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Job Description

We’re JLL—a leading professional services and investment management firm specializing in real estate. We have operations in over 80 countries and a workforce of over 91,000 individuals around the world who help real estate owners, occupiers and investors achieve their business ambitions. As a global Fortune 500 company, we also have an inherent responsibility to drive sustainability and corporate social responsibility. That’s why we’re committed to our purpose to shape the future of the real estate for a better world. We’re using the most advanced technology to create rewarding opportunities, amazing spaces and sustainable real estate solutions for our clients, our people, and our communities.

Our core values of teamwork, ethics and excellence are also fundamental to everything we do, and we’re honoured to be recognized with awards for our success by organizations both globally and locally.

Creating a diverse and inclusive culture where we all feel welcomed, valued, and empowered to achieve our full potential is important to who we are today and where we’re headed in the future. And we know that unique backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives help us think bigger, spark innovation and succeed together.

JLL Sustainability

Becoming more sustainable is one of the biggest challenges facing corporates today – and the built environment accounts for approximately 40% of the world’s CO2 emissions. Everyone’s now asking how can we decarbonize our real estate, preferably most efficiently and effectively. It’s where JLL’s sustainability experts can make a tangible difference, advising companies on how to invest in and implement measures that deliver a potent combination of financial, environmental, and social returns. Join JLL to drive the change that’s needed and shape the future of real estate for a better world — a net-zero world. 

About the Job

To become a formative member of our new Net Zero Design Consulting business line which specializes in the development, design and construction of Net Zero Carbon (NZC) buildings and property estates.   

While the NZC building market is embryonic we are gathering the best talent in the industry to create the leading NZC design team so that together with other JLL business lines we can provide our clients with the right strategic advice, design, construction and post-construction monitoring and verification for NZC building solutions.

Joining the team now will help shape its future and be directly engaged in the market that is going to dominate the construction industry for decades.

What this job involves

• A passion for sustainable and NZC buildings

• Reviewing existing buildings from site surveys, as-built information, energy bills and research; quantify a building’s key energy performance factors

• Creating the initial and then the detailed thermal models to define a building’s engineering and architectural requirements for NZC

• Understanding a building’s engineering and building fabric factors to determine an efficient NZC building design

• A good understanding of related building regulation issues

• Working with our in-house cost management team to evaluate cost-efficient NZC design solutions

• Preparation of NZC briefs, feasibility studies, drawings and specifications

• Preparation of planning energy strategies particularly GLA requirements

• Liaising with clients to discuss and outline NZC design solutions

• Working with colleagues across JLL to help shape our comprehensive NZC market offer

Sound like you? To apply you need to be/have:

• Good verbal and written communication skills

• Robust building services engineering and design abilities

• Knowledge of building fabric elements related to energy efficiency

• A Building Services or Environmental Engineering degree or equivalent Post Graduate qualification in Sustainable Design

• Chartered status or be on the path to Chartered status

• Very competent in IES VE software and CIBSE TM 54 thermal modelling. Ideally familiar with IES Apache HVAC and DfP modelling

• Familiar with Part L/SAP modelling and up to date with the proposed changes to these regulations

• Competent in AutoCAD and ideally Revit

• An ability to sketch ideas and communicate with sketches rather than written text

What can you expect from us?

As an organization, we don’t just accept that we are a place of many different people, but we embrace it, we celebrate it, and we proactively support the needs that difference brings. JLL is committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, gender, age, sexual orientation, or disability, and that is why, for more than a decade, we continue to rank among the World’s Most Ethical Companies. We are dedicated to offering veterans from all ranks and services a successful civilian career as they transition out of the military. We recognize and appreciate the skills acquired in their service careers as vital and transferable to our workforce.