Role: Railway Assessor - Rail & Transit   

Location: Madrid, Spain - Hybrid role

Role ID: 2025-2660

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.

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on proven experience (€35,000 - €50,000).
• Flexible schedule.
• Telework 2-3 days a week with contribution for electricity and Internet expenses.
• 25 days annual leave
• 13 weeks of intensive working hours between June and September (8 AM-15:00 PM).
• Life insurance.
• Non-contributory pension plan.
• Possibility of using Ticket Restaurant and Transportation.
• Possibility of acquiring medical insurance for employee and family members.
• Internal development and progress plan, with access to a multitude of professionals and tools that may be needed.
• Yu-Life – platform that rewards for healthy living.

The Role 

From Ricardo Certification Iberia, subsidiary of Ricardo plc group, we are looking for an immediate incorporation of an assessor for Infrastructure, Energy or Control-Command and Signalling subsystem for:

• Interoperability verification (NoBo) against the applicable TSIs and national regulations (DeBo).
• Independent safety assessment (AsBo / ISA) using regulation 402/2013 and / or CENELEC standards (EN 50126, EN 50128, EN 50129) on high speed and conventional network projects.
• Participate in commercial support tasks such as bid preparation and project management tasks.
• A higher or medium technical degree with experience in the field of railway infrastructure, energy or signalling (interlocking, on-board and on-track ERTMS, national signalling systems, etc.) is required.
• Position based in Madrid, but will participate in projects both nationally and at European and international level (Canada, Middle East, Australia...) so a level of spoken and written English B2-C1 is required.
• Availability for occasional national and international travel.

Skills required

• Demonstrated technical leadership in any of the required subsystems.
• Effective problem solving and creative thinking skills.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, combined with good influencing skills.
• Flexibility, resilience and enthusiasm.
• Great ability to work as part of a team.
• Fluent in Spanish (native or advanced level) and English (advanced level). 

Working here

Ricardo is an exciting and rewarding place to work and you have the opportunity to make a difference. You will work with teams of talented, dedicated and supportive people. Plus you'll have a fantastic opportunity to develop your career with us through our wide range of projects, mentoring opportunities and a personalized approach to your learning and development. We are always interested in meeting people with initiative, ambition and an aptitude for innovative thinking.

Well-being and work-life balance

We offer flexible work approaches, whether working from home, in the office or as a hybrid worker. We are happy to discuss flexible work arrangements. Well-being is at the heart of our culture, enabling employees to thrive and reach their full potential. Our people are important to us, and we are proud of our wellness programs and policies that support people, including flexible working, caregiver policy, mental health first aid and the support available through our extensive Employee Assistance program.

Diversity, equality and inclusion statement

We believe in everyone's potential and will help you achieve yours. We have an ambitious approach to diversity, equality and inclusion, as explained here. We value diversity; we recognize that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied work environment. Diversity also drives innovation, as it enables us to offer our clients the best possible consulting service. As part of our commitment to positively and proactively engage with all our employees and ensure a culture of inclusion, we are recognized as a company that trusts people with disabilities.

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.