Carbon Capture - Principal Consultant/Associate Director

Overview

Role: Carbon Capture - Principal Consultant/Associate Director
Location: UK Flexible

Role ID: 2023-1991

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company, listed on the London Stock Exchange. 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.

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.

Role purpose

Our Energy Decarbonisation practice brings together our deep technology expertise, engineering excellence and impartiality, particularly around solving complex and multidisciplinary challenges. We develop tools and solutions and can support our clients throughout the full implementation process.

Within the Energy Decarbonisation practice, our dedicated Heat Decarbonisation team, comprises a 30-strong team of engineers, consultants and project managers.  This team is at the forefront of delivering heat decarbonisation solutions in the UK and internationally, from working with governments to develop policy, to implementation of low carbon heat solutions in the public and private sectors.

Key responsibilities

Leading the delivery of our Carbon Capture/Negative Emissions Technology work on a wide range of projects including:

• Assessment of new innovative CO2 capture technologies
• Concept development, feasibility studies and FEED studies
• Whole system analysis and comparison of technologies covering gas, coal and biomass fuels in a wide range of sectors including power generation, chemicals, gas processing, refineries, iron & steel and cement
• Life cycle emission analysis of energy systems with CCUS
• Evaluation of policy mechanisms and review of worldwide regulatory regimes for supporting CCUS,
• Development of innovative concepts for monitoring CCUS networks,
• Economic impact assessment of CCUS projects and assessment of value added to the UK from clean abatement technologies with CCUS,
• Assessment and due diligence of CO2 removal technologies in the anaerobic digestion (AD) sector for biogas upgrading.

Key competencies and experience

• Proven experience within Carbon Capture and a relevant scientific or engineering background.
• An understanding of CCUS/BECCS/NETs technologies, costs, economic impacts, environmental and life cycle assessment, and potential business models.
• An understanding of the policies and market development issues relating to CCUS.
• An understanding of how the use of biomass for energy fits into the wider bioeconomy, including sustainability issues and carbon emissions.
• Excellent core consultancy skills – bid writing, project management, and project delivery
• Professional, diligent, and strong attention to detail.
• Experienced in the preparation of proposals and, ideally an effective networker and business developer.
• Excellent organizational abilities
• Proven consultancy skills, or applicable skills from industry.
• Experience in client management and business development.

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.

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.ee@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.