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.

In this position the successful candidate will perform analytical research in order to support various activities of the energy system models PRIMES and PRIMES-TREMOVE, will support the management of projects and participate in business development activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Review, collect and process information from scientific, technical and market sources performing quantitative assessments including structuring, keep up-to-date and analysing large datasets relevant to energy, economy and transport.
• Operate and analyse inputs and outputs of transport and energy systems modelling, identifying trends, impacts and causal relationships.
• Contribute to technical, and energy and climate policy quantitative analysis, lead and assist in the preparation and presentation of reports and related material, all while ensuring delivery within project timelines.
• Support and/or lead project management activities coordinating a team of experts in delivering projects in accordance with client requirements and following the project management process of Ricardo.
• Contribute to developing and delivering our growing portfolio of transport modelling projects within the E3-Modelling Transport team including leading and contributing to the development of technical proposals.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of sector technology developments, trends, challenges and regulations.

Key Competencies and Experience

• MSc/PhD in engineering, applied mathematics, economics, physics, or transport (preferred).
• Experience in energy or transport system analysis and quantitative methods, ideally with energy systems models.
• Proficient in analytical tools for data analysis and visualization.
• Interest in sustainable transport and its impact on the energy-economy-environment nexus.
• Knowledge of European/international transport policy issues.
• Skilled in data collection, validation, analysis, and stakeholder engagement.
• Proven writing skills with experience in academic, technical, or policy report authorship.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team, mentoring less experienced colleagues.
• Experience managing multiple projects, meeting deadlines, and delivering high-quality results.
• Capable of formulating technical action plans and managing projects to completion.
• Ability to identify business development opportunities and draft proposals.
• Advanced MS Office skills, particularly in Excel and Word.
• Fluent in English, both written and verbal communication.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and collaborative mindset with a learning attitude.

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.

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