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.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join our UK team. The role is to work with our engineering and assurance teams to manage multiple projects within the UK. This will include, but will not be limited to; client management, schedule management, document control, supplier management, procurement, risk management and monitoring of resource conflicts. In undertaking this role, you will need to work autonomously, interfacing with clients and other key stakeholders.

For this role you will have experience working in a similar programme capacity, ideally within the rail or professional service sectors. If you are an established project manager with a strong passion for providing excellence and looking for your next move, we’d like to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage multiple projects or programmes, implementing and promoting core principles such as scope management, resource planning, change control, risk, financial control and documentation management.
• Supporting our clients, providing solutions and helping to drive their projects forward.
• Monitoring scope and timescales and raising Early Warning Notices and Compensation events as required by contract terms.
• Take responsibility for ensuring the project costs are monitored and fed into the programme financial reports.
• Support Project Engineers in ensuring that risks are understood, considered and mitigated during both the production of project proposals and during the project lifecycle.
• Ensure any Health and Safety risks relating to the project are identified and managed.
• Build and maintain good client relationships through proactive communication and actions to fulfil client and business expectations.
• Provide a first level response to all emerging customer and supplier issues, engaging with subject-matter experts, where applicable, to ensure a high level of customer service.
• Support project management processes within Ricardo, developing and delivering best practice tools and techniques for effective and consistent ways of working.
• Identify, suggest, and assist managers with implementing change and developments to the administration processes and procedures to meet future business demands and improve process efficiency.
• Identify and implement the correct authorisation route for each project and providing the required information in a timely manner.
• Work closely with Team Leaders and other project managers to reduce risk of resourcing conflicts.
• Manage commercials and procurement for Subcontractors ensuring project budgets allow and authorisations are gained.

Key Competencies and Experience

• Knowledge & experience working within the Rail Industry.
• Experience of working in a business / client services environment.
• Proven experience of managing large value projects through the full project lifecycle including managing budgets against an estimate at completion, reporting current project status, managing resource conflicts and providing outturn forecasts.
• Ability to analyses and revise a project programme and produce project documents in line with this.
• Capability to quickly learn and proficiently operate Ricardo’s project management (Changepoint) and Customer Relationship Management (Microsoft Dynamics) software tools.
• Flexibility and a results-oriented approach to meet varying and competing client and business demands.
• Versatility and adaptability with strong organisational skills to be able to work on multiple tasks and to tight deadlines.
• A proactive approach to problem solving with strong communication and diplomacy skills to negotiate and influence internal and external clients.
• An inquisitive nature, an eye for detail, and an ability to use own initiative.
• Excellent mathematical skills in relation to project budgets, costs and forecasting.
• Excellent English oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent Excel skills and proficient in the use of other Microsoft Office packages including Word, Project, and PowerPoint.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the Rail industry, including experience of delivering projects in the rail environment
• Project Management qualifications e.g. PRINCE2 or APM.
• Experience in engineering safety management.
• Knowledge & experience of working within NEC style contracts for consultancy services.

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. 

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.