Digital Consultant

Associate or Senior Associate Digital Consultant

London, Reading or Bristol

You will be joining the Hoare Lea Strategic Consultancy business unit.

The role will focus in the area that facilitates, develops, and drives a client’s digital transformation journey for their building and places at a single asset, a campus, and/or a portfolio level.

The role will provide a pragmatic methodology for developing strategies, providing evidence-based methods for prioritising investment, design & specification, navigating procurement and providing stewardship through delivery stages and long into operational stages of assets.

About us

Hoare Lea is an award-winning engineering consultancy with a creative team of engineers, designers and technical specialists. We provide innovative solutions to complex engineering and design challenges for buildings.

Irrespective of the scale or complexity of a project, we provide a full range of MEP, environmental and sustainability services, bringing buildings to life and ensuring that they perform in operation as well as they look.

Hoare Lea has joined Tetra Tech’s High-Performance Buildings Group, a global alliance of MEP firms.

Why work for us?

You’ll collaborate with the industry’s best, working with a wide range of built-environment specialists.

You’ll be part of progressive and exciting projects, able to experience innovative schemes across all sectors.

You’ll advance your career, your way, thanks to our structured Career Paths framework.

The role

Working closely with technical subject matter experts across the digital technology landscape, you will develop practical and value-driving digital use cases and roadmaps that lead to measurable outcomes for our clients. You will also provide stewardship of agreed strategies from concept, development, and implementation, driving real value outcomes from the implementation of the right technologies.

You will team up and work directly with subject matter experts across the Strategic Consultancy business unit areas such as ESG, decarbonisation, building performance and wider technical specialities to support a multi-disciplinary approach to solving complex problems for our clients.

Our team works across many different sectors, including Healthcare, Workplace, Real Estate, Higher Education and High-Tech Manufacturing and with it brings a great opportunity to develop knowledge and skills across the industry while working with some of the country’s most prestigious clients.

What we are looking for

• People who are energetic, organised, and open.
• Have relevant sector experience.
• High understanding of the overall property lifecycle from early-stage viability, design through to commissioning, handover, and ongoing building operations.
• Good technical understanding of core building systems such as building management systems, networks, Internet-of-Things technologies, and related systems.
• Able to produce technical strategies, roadmaps and investment cases relying on a wider group of subject matter experts.
• Ability to apply critical thinking and evaluation methods to help clients prioritise a range of options and choices.
• Ready to attend networking events and conferences. Willing to engage with current and potential clients in order to develop business opportunities.
• Comfortable to engage with stakeholders of all levels in the ecosystem. Can engage with non-technical audiences to establish goals, pain points and desired outcomes to inform strategy development.
• Some understanding of wider MEP building systems design, commissioning, and operation.

Our benefits

To reward your hard work and commitment we offer both core and flexible benefits, a competitive salary and industry-leading training and development to support you throughout your career.

Core benefits

Private medical scheme

Life Assurance

Income protection

Travel allowance - electric car scheme

25 days annual leave, increasing to 30 with length of service

Contributory pension scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Enhanced Paternity, Maternity & Shared Parental Leave

Season Ticket Loans

Professional membership subscription

Flexitime

Flexible benefits

• 9-day fortnight – the firm offers all employees the option to work a 9-day fortnight
• Hybrid Working – activity-based approach
• Employee stock purchase plan – a voluntary program which allows eligible employees to purchase Tetra Tech common stock at a 15% discount
• Holiday buy & sell up to 5 days
• Study Assistance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Referral Scheme
• Sabbatical Leave
• Other flexible benefits include gym and retail discounts, travel & dental insurance and GAYE (Give as you Earn)
• Flexible working - We’re happy to discuss flexible working. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage

How to apply

To apply simply complete a CV profile and submit your application, or for further information please contact [email protected]

Diversity, equity and inclusion

We are committed to being a place where underrepresented individuals and communities are not just included, but where marginalised knowledge and experience is valued, amplified, and harnessed. So, we strongly encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, including women, people of the Global Majority, LGBTQ+ individuals, disabled people, neurodivergent people, and those from all other underrepresented or marginalised groups. To learn more about our approach to diversity, equity and inclusion, see our DEI strategy.

Adjustments and accommodations

If there are adjustments or accommodations that we can put in place to ensure you can participate and give your best at any stage of the recruitment process (whether relating to disability, neurodivergence, or anything else) please let us know.

Flexible working

We are committed to enabling a healthy work-life balance for all employees. So, we welcome applications from candidates seeking flexible working arrangements to suit their particular needs and lifestyle, including part-time, term-time-only, and remote working.

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