Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company, listed on the London Stock Exchange. 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 Role

Ricardo is seeking a dynamic Lead Independent Safety Assessor (ISA) - Rail Certification to provide technical and project leadership in independent safety assurance. This key role involves acting as a primary contact for customers and clients, while also mentoring and developing junior staff to promote growth within our organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver multiple complex projects within Ricardo's global portfolio, ensuring timely, quality-focused outcomes within budget.
• Act as the main point of contact for clients, managing escalation needs, and fostering strong, ongoing relationships throughout the project lifecycle.
• Contribute to proposals, bids, and submissions, ensuring alignment with client needs and commercial goals.
• Guide junior staff in delivering accurate technical analysis, assessments, and reports within project timelines and budget constraints.
• Provide technical oversight for multiple projects, reviewing and approving work completed by junior or less experienced consultants.
• Work with Business Development and Growth teams to pursue new business, draft proposals, lead negotiations, and apply commercial insight.
• Expand your knowledge and apply industry best practices to develop solutions for technically complex issues.
• Promote a collaborative environment across global teams, sharing best practices and fostering inclusivity.
• Support business needs through roles such as Team Leader, Signatory, Local Site Leader, or Capability Lead.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in a relevant science or engineering discipline.
• In-depth technical knowledge and experience in rail signaling and safety.
• Proven experience leading and delivering complex projects, with a record of coaching and mentoring others.
• Strong client relationship management skills, with an ability to identify new opportunities through excellent service and delivery.

Desirable

• Chartered status or membership in a recognised professional institution.

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 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.

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.