Analyst Consultant / Consultant - Environmental and Ecological Assessment (SEA)

Role: Analyst Consultant / Consultant Environmental & Ecological Assessment - SEA

Location: Bristol London Harwell Manchester Sheffield Glasgow Hybrid

Salary Range: 25000 - 36000 depending on experience

Role ID: 2025-3066

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 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.

Key Responsibilities

• We are seeking to appoint an analyst / consultant to support our environmental assessment team.
• You will be responsible for undertaking tasks associated with environmental assessment particularly Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA) with a focus on assessing Water Industry related plans and programmes.
• You will be required to support tin the collection analysis interpretation and visualisation of environmental and water datasets including geospatial representation.
• You will work collaboratively as part of a wider team of multi-disciplinary water and environmental experts that include specialists in the fields of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Habitat Regulation Assessment (HRA) Water Framework Directive (WFD) Natural Capital Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) water resources hydro-ecology ground and surface water hydrology flood risk geomorphology water quality and aquatic and terrestrial ecology.
• Elements of all of these disciplines can feature in our work which includes a focus on water resources drought planning surface water groundwater and wastewater investigations.
• There is also the opportunity to work with other parts of our water environmental and ecological teams to support in data analysis GIS environmental assessment and site surveys.

Key Competencies and Experience

• An understanding of the water sector primarily in the UK.
• An awareness that encompasses environmental assessment and planning water resources environmental assessment (particularly SEA but ideally other environmental assessment such as WFD HRA BNG natural capital plus ecology and water quality programmes that support UK water companies water regulators government and local authority clients.
• Data processing analysis interpretation and visualisation.
• An interest and background in environmental assessment and water resources planning; ideally with working knowledge of undertaking environmental impact assessment / SEA.
• Have a relevant degree and ideally a post graduate degree that demonstrates a sound overall environmental background.
• Awareness and understanding of environmental monitoring programmes

Skills and behaviours

• Strong analytical skills and ability to process and interpret water and environmental datasets
• Excellent team working.
• Enthusiastic keen to learn and able to act quickly and flexible across projects.
• Excellent report writing.
• Ability to fault find and problem solve in challenging environments.
• 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.

Desirable Competencies and Experience

• GIS skills.
• A full UK driving licence.
• Working knowledge of undertaking environmental impact assessment / SEA

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. 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.

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.

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 pro-actively 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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