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’re looking for a dedicated Rail Industry Project Manager to oversee multiple sub-projects within a large program based in Ontario. This role involves engaging directly with clients and key stakeholders to ensure smooth project execution and alignment with client expectations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee multiple projects within a program, implementing core principles like scope and resource management, change control, risk management, and documentation.
• Work with the Programme Manager to identify and mitigate risks, manage project costs, and feed into financial reports.
• Collaborate closely with clients, providing solutions, and driving project progress.
• Ensure projects adhere to SCC guidelines and manage Health & Safety risks.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships through proactive communication.
• Handle procurement processes for subcontractors, ensuring budgets align with project needs.

Key Competencies and Experience:

• Proven track record managing high-value programs with multiple stakeholders, within the rail industry.
• Expertise in managing large projects through full lifecycles, including budget management, reporting, resource conflict resolution, and forecasting.
• Proficiency in project management software (Changepoint) and CRM tools (Microsoft Dynamics), alongside excellent Excel skills.
• Strong oral and written skills in English, with the ability to negotiate and influence a diverse range of stakeholders.
• A results-oriented, proactive approach to meet varied client demands, with excellent organization to manage multiple projects and deadlines.
• Willingness to travel across North America to support project delivery.
• Knowledge of the rail industry or experience delivering projects in the rail environment.
• Project Management certifications (e.g., PRINCE2, APM).

Why Join Us?

This role offers a unique chance to work autonomously while collaborating with talented teams and prominent clients. If you’re a project management professional with a commitment to client service and a desire to impact large-scale projects, we’d love to hear from you!

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.