Sustainability Construction Manager

Always wanted to challenge the obvious and make great things happen? At Goodman we create space for your greatness.

We are currently seeking a **Sustainable Construction Manager**to join our team. In this role, you will lead our efforts in incorporating sustainable practices into our construction projects, ensuring that our developments not only meet but exceed industry standards for sustainability.

More concretely, this means you will get the opportunity to**:

- **Integrate sustainability in development projects**
- Ensure development project compliance with Goodman CE's sustainability ambition and standards
- Collaborate with internal and external teams to ensure sustainability practices are incorporated into design, procurement and construction processes
- Proactively challenge the status quo by providing technical expertise to improve sustainability outcome in construction projects.
- **Challenge the status quo and innovate to meet our environmental targets**
- Strengthen and refine Goodman CE's existing sustainability specifications, ensuring they remain at the forefront of industry best practices.
- Identify and implement innovative solutions to meet our targets and develop more sustainable projects.
- Develop and update sustainability-related content and frameworks, ensuring the integration of new learnings and emerging trends.

Your key areas of focus are:

- **Reduce** **embodied** **carbon**
- Continuously enhanexpertise in embodied carbon reduction strategies for developments. Maintain and strengthen relationships with key suppliers, including General Contractors, installers, and manufacturers, to support decarbonisation efforts.
- **Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs)**:

- Analyse design and as-built LCAs to ensure alignment with Goodman CE's decarbonisation goals.
- Utilize insights from embodied carbon reduction research to support development teams in new projects
- **Improve Circularity**:

- Assist in evaluating the circularity of procured materials and technologies, focusing on sourcing and end of life
- Assess and track the circularity levels of products.
- Contribute to the development and execution of Goodman CE's Circularity Strategy.
- **Waste Management**:

- Oversee data collection for ongoing construction and deconstruction projects, ensuring all waste management data aligns with Goodman's standards.
- Identify waste management partners and consultants to maximize recovery rates within CE.
- Keep up-to-date with new trends and regulations in waste management.

**Do you recognize yourself?**
- You have 5 years of experience in sustainable construction, with knowledge of life cycle assessment performance, embodied carbon reduction and circularity.
- You have a degree in Civil or Material Engineering, with expertise in decarbonising large-scale developments (buildings or infrastructure), or degree in Chemical Engineering with expertise in decarbonized construction materials.
- You are proficient in dealing with a variety of stakeholders (contractors, manufacturers, etc.)
- You are familiar with sustainability regulations, norms, innovations and you bring knowledge of industry trends and relevant methodologies.
- You are resistant to stress, able to navigate in a quickly changing environment and naturally challenge the status quo.
- Fluency in English is required.

**Let's introduce ourselves a little more**:
Goodman owns, develops, and manages modern industrial real estate including logistics facilities, data centres and business parks in strategic locations around the world. In total, we have a team of around 1.000, located across 5 continents. In Continental Europe we are active in 7 countries, including offices in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, München and Paris.

Contrary to traditional organisations where leadership is based on hierarchy, ours is based on collective leadership, collaborative governance, individual ownership and accountability. Most importantly, we want to make room for growth for everyone to remain agile in responding to the constantly changing world, to increase effectiveness, act with respect and contribute to greatness.

**How do we look at the world of tomorrow?**

At Goodman we believe we all have a role to play in safeguarding the future for next generations. Therefore, sustainability is the driving force behind everything we do. Not only do we foster a sustainable and inclusive working environment for all our employees but also, throughout all our projects, we are continuously challenging ourselves to make sustainability a reality. All of this is part of Goodman's DNA and at the centre of everything we do. At Goodman, we believe it's not enough to talk the talk — we also need to walk the walk