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Sustainability Lead

Sustainability Lead

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Buckinghamshire, United kingdom

Senior

Freelance

04-12-2025

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*** Contract opportunity Outside IR35 ***

We’re partnering with a fast-growing, forward-thinking contractor that delivers high-tech facilities across manufacturing, logistics, life sciences, and data centre sectors. As their Sustainability Lead, you’ll play a pivotal role in embedding ESG into every phase of project delivery - from the ground up.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a self-starter who’s ready to own their agenda, influence at all levels, and leave a lasting legacy on the built environment.

Where You’ll Make an Impact:

Lead from the front – Act as the go-to sustainability expert across major UK projects, ensuring best-in-class environmental performance.
Drive project certifications – Own BREEAM, LEED and other accreditations with clients and consultants, keeping everyone aligned and accountable.
Shape strategy – Embed the wider ESG strategy into live project delivery, pushing forward key goals around carbon, compliance, and culture.
Train and influence – Build capability across teams through tailored sustainability training and impactful reporting.
Raise the bar – Regularly visit sites to champion environmental compliance and identify new opportunities for sustainable innovation.

What You Bring:

A track record supporting sustainability in construction projects – with a passion for pushing boundaries, not ticking boxes.
Confident leading conversations on environmental compliance, certification, and planning conditions.
Experienced with tools like BREEAM, LEED or carbon/impact assessments.
A natural communicator – clear, credible, and able to inspire change across technical and non-technical audiences.
Proactive and autonomous – you’re a doer, someone who thrives on making things happen and taking ownership.

About the Company

Shirley Parsons is a global professional services firm with expertise in Health & Safety, Quality, Sustainability and Business Improvement. Our mission is simple; to help create a better, safer and more sustainable world. We work in partnership with organisations to solve health, safety, sustainability, wellbeing and quality challenges through the provision of HSEQ expertise in the most efficient and sustainable way. This could be the provision of expert consultancy, the operation of an HSEQ function or the identification of... Know more