Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

The Chemical and Response Training team was created in 2019 and has gone on to support some of the best-known public and private sector organisations around the globe in the development of their incident management capabilities; the identification of personnel with the right qualities and attributes to make up a response team; as well as high-quality scenario-based training, exercising and assessments. In addition to this, the team have supported in the development of policies and procedures to help ensure they have robust, high quality, safe and effective incident management teams who can deal with incidents when they occur, and / or work alongside the emergency services to bring an incident to a successful conclusion with minimal disruption to the organisation whilst limiting reputational damage.    Due to the strong growth in this area, specifically private sector response team training,, we are now looking to expand our team.

The purpose of the role will be to lead on the delivery of our private sector work, with a key focus being on supporting organisations with incident management at operational, tactical, and strategic levels... We are looking for a candidate who can make a strong contribution to the success of the team, enabling us to continue to exceed our customers’ expectations whilst building strong, longstanding and meaningful relationships with clients.

This role would be suited to a candidate who is experienced in dealing with and managing incidents, and who therefore has an ability to share real-world anecdotes during the support they deliver. The role will include the delivery of technical training and consultancy to organisations around the globe, which means you may be required to deliver high quality support to very large, diverse, groups of stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• To support organisations in identifying their incident management development needs across their operational, tactical, and strategic response.
• To support and / or lead gap analysis and policy development consultancy projects being delivered, by both internal and associate teams, on behalf of clients.
• To design and deliver high quality, realistic training in an engaging manner both within and outside of the UK.
• To support CRT growth and technical leads in the development of this offering.
• Working closely with new organisations, existing customers, and partners to further develop relationships.
• Provide input to the plans to support the growth of the area.
• Use own existing network, or develop a network of key contacts, to uncover new market requirements and develop courses to deliver based on the market need.

Essential Competencies and Experience

• Experience of working as part of an incident response management team including responding to and managing incidents.
• Proven track record of managing a range of incidents effectively and being able to share post incident information to improve safety, processes etc.
• Highly organised team player with strong relationship management skills.
• Experience of training and mentoring other members of the team.
• Proven track record of creation and delivery of training packages / programmes.
• Ability to work independently, prioritising own work and delivering to deadlines.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with experience of communicating complex information to a range of internal and/or external stakeholders.
• Ability to work closely with stakeholders to identify exact requirements for a high-quality incident management framework, policies, and teams.

Desirable 

• Experience of working with a range of organisations, coupled with a commercial understanding.
• Experience of working with the emergency services, or similar, as a responder and/or in a training delivery capacity.
• Teaching qualification such as Award in Education and Teaching or equivalent.
• Qualification in assessing in the workplace.
• Academic qualification in emergency/incident response or similar field.

This is an excellent opportunity for the right individual to join a market leading team who are committed to delivering high quality consultancy to organisations in the UK and across the globe. By joining the Ricardo’s Chemical and Response Training team, you will have the opportunity to work with the emergency services, government organisations and the private sector, alongside some of the most experienced incident management experts in the UK.

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance 

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health. 

Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

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