Analyst Consultant/ Consultant - Heat Decarbonisation

Role: Analyst Consultant/Consultant - Heat Decarbonisation

Location: London, Harwell, Glasgow, Shoreham, Bristol, Manchester - Hybrid

Role ID: 2024-2406

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.

Develop or start your career with Ricardo, a consultancy that respects, innovates, has integrity and passion for the environment. We empower, develop, and trust you to deliver your best work. We’ll provide a culture that will enable you to evolve, grow and succeed.

Opportunity and Growth
Are you a recent graduate or in the first few years of your career? We have an exciting opportunity for Analyst Consultants and/or Consultants to join our Heat Decarbonisation team. As part of our Energy Decarbonisation business unit, our dedicated Heat team is at the forefront of delivering Heat Decarbonisation solutions in the UK and internationally, from working with governments to develop policy, to the implementation of low carbon heat solutions in industry and the built environment. As the demand for our services grow, we are seeking to further expand our team.

Position
You'll be part of an established team supporting senior consultants in delivering projects to clients, but with plenty of opportunity to develop your own work streams and progress your career within the team. You will have excellent knowledge and awareness of renewable heat technologies, and the opportunities and challenges that face the sector as we seek to achieve Heat Decarbonisation in the UK and beyond. You will have excellent numeracy and analytical skills gained from a scientific or engineering background, strong writing and communication skills, a proactive, organised approach, and a commitment to producing high quality work with a high level of attention to detail. The role involves working on our flag-ship government renewable heat programmes in addition to working across a diverse range of projects for our private and public sector clients.

The role and key responsibilities
• Undertake data analysis of heating systems.
• Undertake desk and site-based audits of renewable heating and CHP systems.
• Helping develop strategies to decarbonise heat in industry and the built environment.
• Modelling of low carbon heating solutions and technologies.
• Produce high-quality, client-focused reports as part of project delivery.
• Plan and develop projects, working with senior consulting colleagues.
• Join the broader Energy Decarbonisation practice, network with colleagues, and engage other internal project opportunities.

Skills and knowledge
• Knowledge of renewable heat technologies and systems and policies.
• Awareness and understanding of Heat Decarbonisation as part of net zero.
• Data analysis and experience of applying these to energy and heat projects.
• Ability to plan, prioritise and manage workload.

Essential
• A Bachelors (2.1 or above) or Masters, in an engineering, renewable energy or science subject.
• A passion for working in renewable energy.
• A high level of numeracy and numerical analysis.
• A professional and diligent approach.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Be flexible, proactive, resilient and enthusiastic.
• Be able to work independently and demonstrate initiative, as well as operate effectively as part of a team.

You will need to hold a Full UK Driving license for this position, as the post will include an element of UK travel

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.

We also recognise that life is not static but is varied and flexible. For this reason, we also think that your work life should reflect this and have an open approach to how, where and when you work.

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 to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

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.

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 if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.
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