Senior/ Principal Sustainable Transport Infrastructure

1 month ago

Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Ricardo Energy & Environment Full time
Senior/Principal Sustainable Transport Infrastructure
Location: UK (London or 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 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.
In this role, you will provide sustainability consulting and verification services for transport infrastructure projects, supporting international developers in reducing carbon emissions across the asset lifecycle-from design and construction to operation and maintenance. You'll advise organizations on assessing the sustainability of infrastructure projects globally, helping create more efficient, sustainable, and resilient transport systems. Ideal candidates will have experience in areas such as engineering and design, infrastructure development, sustainability consulting, public sector agencies, or transport industry associations.
Key Responsibilities
  • Lead and contribute to transport infrastructure decarbonisation projects involving sustainable and resilient infrastructure design, construction, operations, with focus on road transport but covering also types of infrastructure (e.g., airports, ports, railways).
  • Lead and contribute to the development of technical proposals primarily focused on infrastructure decarbonisation but with the possibility to contribute to wider transport-related projects.
  • Lead and contribute to business development activities leveraging your knowledge of the infrastructure industry and stakeholders, including infrastructure investors, developers, operators, international institutions and industry associations.
  • Maintain up-to-date knowledge of sector technology developments, trends, challenges and regulations.
Key Competencies and Experience
  • Educated to a Bachelor's degree level or higher in civil engineering, environmental engineering or related fields.
  • Strong background in sustainable infrastructure design, construction, and operations, especially within road transport decarbonisation (although experience in additional types of infrastructure is positively valued).
  • Knowledge of low-carbon technologies and practices for infrastructure projects, including energy efficiency, sustainable materials, and resilient design.
  • Familiarity with appropriate data sources, constraints and national and international policies on infrastructure decarbonisation and climate action.
  • Understanding of the infrastructure industry, including key stakeholders, regulations, trends, and international standards.
  • Good communicator, written and verbally including the ability to convey technical subjects clearly and concisely to a range of clients.
  • Ability to work collaboratively as part of a diverse team of specialists ranging from engineers, economists, policy experts to climate change experts.
  • 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
  • Strong industry network and ability to utilise existing sector contacts to support new opportunities and build trust-based relationships with clients and potential partners.
  • Strong modelling and analytical skills and familiarity with appropriate standards, guidance and relevant methodologies for infrastructure sustainability assessment over project life cycle.
  • Experience leading and managing transport infrastructure projects.
  • Experience in leading technical proposals related to infrastructure decarbonisation.
  • Experience in assessing project feasibility, risks, and financial impacts related to infrastructure decarbonisation.
  • Experience in integrating climate resilience into infrastructure planning and operations.
  • Fluency in additional languages.
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.
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.
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 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 via if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

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