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 quantitative research and actively participate in modelling activities related to the energy system models PRIMES and PRIMES-TREMOVE.

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.
• Apply energy demand modelling of the transport sector while getting acquainted with the PRIMES modelling suite.
• Analyse model outputs linking trends, impacts and causal relations to model mechanisms and communicate them in a clear and accurate manner.
• Operate, maintain and further develop modules of our transport modelling tools in line with our standards and modelling protocols.
• Understand transport system operation and translate this into modelling mechanisms able to capture the impact of transport sustainability policies, measures and interventions.
• Support innovation in the development and enhancement of our transport modelling tools, explore new concepts, methodologies, and approaches to improve the accuracy and effectiveness of our assessments.

Key Competencies and Experience

• Hold an MSc and/or PhD in engineering, applied mathematics, computational modelling, operations research, mathematical economics, or physics.
• Proven experience in energy systems modelling, mathematical programming, optimization, transport economics, and related quantitative methods.
• Skilled in quantitative modelling, with experience developing models and scenarios, particularly related to transport systems or a specific transport mode (desirable).
• Applied experience in using analytical and/or modelling tools, with programming knowledge in R, Visual Basic, Python, Matlab, C, or preferably GAMS.
• Demonstrated ability to delivering high-quality results.
• Strong writing skills, with experience in academic articles, technical reports, or policy reports in English (desirable).
• Advanced MS Office skills, particularly in Excel.
• Fluent in verbal and written communication in English.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset, with a collaborative attitude and eagerness to learn.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a project team to deliver high-quality work.

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.