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Senior Renewables Implementation Consultant
- Role type
- Permanent, Full time
- Location/s
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Flexible, UK
- Closing Date
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22/08/2024
Job Description
Role: Senior Renewables Implementation Consultant
Location: UK Flexible
Role ID: 2024-2404
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.
The team
The Sustainable Energy Systems team comprises a group of highly experienced professionals specialising in engineering techno-economic, and management consultancy services for the energy sector, with particular emphasis on the power sector. We cover power generation, transmission and distribution planning, electricity tariff and affordability studies, renewable energy integration, regulation, policy, power market design and “smart grid” innovation projects. We are a respected consultancy in the hydrogen sector and our depth and breadth of expertise and diverse portfolio provides potential candidates with a unique opportunity to work on such projects across the globe. We are a committed team of like-minded professionals with a growing portfolio of energy technology, policy and strategy projects.
The Role
A winner doer to grow our renewable energy owners engineering services. The proportional split in activities will evolve to suit business needs at the time but will include business planning, new business development, management of existing relationships and project oversight/delivery.
- Senior role in Engineering Consultancy or EPC
- Strong technical background in UK renewable project implementation
- Good knowledge of utility scale solar PV, BESS and developers / funders
- Experience of reviewing design and procurement documents and contracts
- Experience of CDM and health and safety
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Customer facing experience
- A self starter with business development experience, an existing network of contacts in sector and an understanding of market rates
- Experience in defining the client’s need and preparing successful proposals
- Substantial professional experience
- Masters in Engineering
Desirable
- Professional accreditation
- Consultancy experience
- On and/or offshore wind feasibility experience
- Green hydrogen experience
Optimistic:
- Transmission level connection experience
- Experience of the Planning and EIA process
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.
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 recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.
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