Salary range: £28,000 - £35,000

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world

We are currently looking for an Analyst Consultant to join our Ecology team with a bias toward Fisheries management or Marine Ecology. Much of our work is for water companies but also covers wider infrastructure projects for developers and support for other commercial organisations, where high quality data capture and analysis is essential to assess risk and support mitigations work.

You will form part of the team supporting our consultants working across a variety of projects in our ecology, water, and environmental impact assessment teams. There is also the opportunity to work with other parts of our business with the aim of helping to develop a portfolio of projects where our water related expertise can complement other environmental assessments.

Key responsibilities

• Data collation through site surveys.
• Data processing, analysis, interpretation, and visualisation using Excel and GIS.
• Desk studies, literature reviews, option appraisals, impact assessment and reporting.
• Provide technical, administrative, or professional support to winning & executing projects.
• Solve problems, make decisions independently within own area of responsibility, or in conjunction with other team members or more senior colleagues.
• Undertake tasks on projects/bids and begins to manage tasks where appropriate.
• Develop client relationships at operational level on projects and tasks.

Key competencies and experience

• Bachelors (2.1 or above) and ideally a post graduate degree in a relevant subject.
• Demonstrable experience of relevant work.
• Graduate or Associate membership of CIEEM.
• Basic knowledge of UK and EU Wildlife Legislation, planning policies, licensing requirements and best practice survey techniques.
• Understanding of the UK water industry.
• Experience of using Excel and GIS packages (such as ArcGIS and QGIS).
• Experience of reviewing and interpreting datasets, with excellent analytical skills.
• Effective report writing skills.
• Ability to fault find and problem solve in challenging environments.
• Effective time management skills.
• Willingness to learn from contributing to a broad range of fieldwork and office-based tasks.
• A full UK driving licence.

Skills and Behaviour

• Strong communication skills and a close attention to detail.
• Excellent team working.
• Enthusiastic, keen to learn and able to act quickly and flexibly across projects.
• Excellent report writing.
• Ambitious, enthusiastic, and self-motivated to thrive in this busy and demanding environment.
• Good IT skills commonly used software, e.g. Microsoft Office, internet, email, and GIS.
• Self-organized.
• An understanding of undertaking field surveys safely and to the right quality standard.
• Plans, organises, and reviews activities effectively and efficiently in order to meet defined expectations.

Desirable

• Previous consultancy, regulator, or water company experience.
• Experience of project management and/or preparation of ecology proposals and tenders.
• Broad ecological survey experience with demonstrable proficiency in particular protected species surveys and/or habitat surveys and providing mitigation recommendations.
• Experience of planning and conducting ecological surveys, including habitat survey and protected species surveys, and providing mitigation recommendations.
• At least one protected species survey licence (not including GCN).

Working with Ricardo

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.

Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

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.

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.