Senior Consultant on Maritime Decarbonisation

Role: Senior Consultant on Maritime Decarbonisation

Location: UK (London Bristol Glasgow Manchester Harwell) Spain (Madrid) or Greece (Athens) Hybrid

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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 3000 employees in more than 20 countries we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leadingedge and innovative crosssector 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 Role

We are driving the maritime sector towards an efficient sustainable and zeroGHG future providing independent impartial evidence to policymakers and advising stakeholders on effective decarbonisation strategies. In this role you will contribute your expertise across the full product life cycle and multiple international markets helping clients assess design and implement policies and solutions that enhance the efficiency sustainability and resilience of maritime transport systems. Your passion for innovation and commitment to positive change will be key in delivering impactful projects that support safer more sustainable communities worldwide.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to developing and delivering our growing portfolio of maritime decarbonisation projects within the Sustainable Transport team on behalf of a mixture of private organisations industry associations and public sector clients.
• Lead and contribute to maritime decarbonisation projects involving policy design policy evaluation technoeconomic analysis scenario modelling analysis of wider economic and social implications.
• Lead and contribute to the development of technical proposals primarily within the maritime sector but with ad hoc support across the wider team.
• Maintain uptodate knowledge of sector technology developments trends challenges and regulations.

Key Competencies and Experience

• Educated to a Bachelors degree level or higher in a related discipline such as maritime studies economics political science engineering sustainability.
• Relevant policy consultancy or advisory experience within the public or private sector.
• Experience in managing projects and tasks and leading multidisciplinary teams.
• An understanding of the maritime sector at an operational level and at a commercial level and the sustainability challenges facing maritime organisations.
• Knowledge of European climate transport policies such as those included in the Fit for 55 package and those set internationally by the International Maritime Organization (IMO).
• Strong analytical skills synthesising several data sources.
• Great communicator written and verbally including the ability to convey technical subjects clearly and concisely to a range of clients.
• Excellent time management with the ability to juggle time across multiple projects and prioritise deadlines seamlessly.
• Fluency in English and excellent reporting writing skills.

Desirable Competencies and Experience

• Previous experience in developing and assessing maritime decarbonisation policies and strategies for both public and private clients.
• Ability to utilise existing sector contacts to support new opportunities and build trustbased relationships with clients and potential partners.
• Strong knowledge of economic analysis and policy evaluation methods.
• Understanding of vessel and energy efficiency technologies and alternative fuels.
• Knowledge of technical measures carbon pricing mechanisms and Monitoring Reporting and Verification processes.
• We operate on a broad range of international projects within Europe Latin America & South East Asia so fluency in other languages from these geographies is a bonus but not essential.
• Strong numerical modelling and coding skills.

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.

Work life balance

We offer flexible approaches to work whether that is working from home being in the office or as a hybrid worker. Were 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 persons potential and well 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 proactively 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 viaif you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

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