Contractor - Low Carbon Fuels

Role: Low Carbon Fuels Contractor

Location: London Oxford Manchester (UK) and Madrid (Spain) 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 seeking an Associate/Contractor to join our Sustainable Transport team supporting projects on lowcarbon fuels. The role involves policy analysis stakeholder engagement and technical assessments to shape regulatory approaches in the UK Europe and globally. You will evaluate technologies assess policy costs and benefits and provide insights on the transport systems impact on the economy environment and society.

Key Competencies and Experience

• A first or upper secondclass BSc MSc or PhD in Science Engineering or a related field. A background in chemical engineering chemistry or process engineeringparticularly with a focus on lowcarbon fuelsis highly desirable.

• Understanding of biomass or recycledcarbon feedstocks and/or lowcarbon fuel production pathways (biofuels efuels recycled carbon fuels) is required.

• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks such as the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation SAF Mandate ReFuelEU and CORSIA is desirable.

• Experience with technoeconomic analysis and market dynamics influencing lowcarbon fuel adoption is desirable.

• Knowledge of lifecycle assessments (LCA) and sustainability frameworks for evaluating environmental impact is desirable.

• Experience developing quantitative models and scenarios for transport technology and fuel deployment is desirable.

• Previous experience in consultancy is highly desirable particularly in projects for the European Commission and/or UK Government.

Skills and behaviours

• Interest in transport policy.
• Ability to synthesize data to support evidencebased solutions.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to simplify technical concepts for diverse audiences.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office particularly Excel and Word.
• Fluency in English (Spanish required for roles in Madrid; additional languages are a plus).
• Strong data analysis skills (experience with Excel R or Python is desirable).

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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