Principal Consultant Life Cycle Assessment - US

Overview

Role: Principal Consultant - Life Cycle Assessment

Location: US Flexible

Role ID: 2023-1719

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

Our sustainability team aims to support clients in comprehending and subsequently minimising their environmental impact. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a key growth area for Ricardo, we have undertaken a considerable number of LCA projects in the last five years, covering various industries and products such as automotive, building materials, and low-carbon technologies.

We are actively looking for an experienced Principal Consultant to join our team, with the aim of supporting and expediting the expansion of our LCA team.

We encourage you to apply for this role if you can recognise and cultivate fresh prospects, have an aptitude for engaging in strategic discussions with high-level executives, encompassing assessing requirements, create technical propositions, and guide clients throughout their sustainability journey.

We’d love to hear from you if you have the following competencies and experience:

• Experience of managing and delivering LCA projects in accordance with international standards.

• Ability to demonstrate relevant technical capability, effective project management and excellent communication skills.

• Higher education qualification (Bachelor’s Degree) in an environmental discipline, or otherwise to have a good track record working in an environmental role, so that you can demonstrate your knowledge.

• Experience of working in the consultancy sector, or responsibility for managing the outputs from contracted consultants, to demonstrate that you have the necessary commercial awareness. We would also be interested to talk to candidates currently performing roles directly within industry especially where they have a strong commercial awareness.

• Experience of identifying and developing business opportunities, including establishing and maintaining relationships at senior levels.

• LCACP and CLAR certification would be an advantage.

As a Principal Consultant you need to have the following skills and behaviours:

• Ability to develop client propositions (e.g., understanding of client challenges and develop and propose suitable solutions).
• Excellent analytical skills with ability to identify, develop and implement solutions.
• Excellent writing skills to communicate clearly and without errors. Accuracy and attention to detail are vital.
• Ability to build and lead teams, and to coordinate and prioritise activities to ensure delivery of work on time and to budget.
• Ability to work autonomously and pro-actively.
• A flexible approach. Able to see where help is needed and support colleagues as necessary.
• Be comfortable juggling a variety of tasks in a sometimes fast-paced operational environment.

As a Principal Consultant your main responsibilities would be:

• Develop LCA consultancy opportunities for current clients and expand the offer of current services to new clients.
• Lead the delivery of LCA projects including responsibility for client satisfaction, timely delivery, project financial management and ensuring high-quality outputs.
• Be experienced in building LCA models, including Microsoft Excel and software packages such as SimaPro or GaBi, and be able to support and train more junior colleagues in developing models using these platforms.
• Have a detailed understanding of the relevant ISO standards, as well as other methodologies relating to LCA, such as carbon footprinting, EPD, PCR and PEF.
• Provide senior-level expert quality assurance and technical review of project deliverables, including ensuring models outputs are valid and checking reports conformity to standards such as ISO 140444.
• Develop and maintain close client and partner relationships to support the winning of new business.
• Ensure appropriate profile raising and marketing of Ricardo’s services and capabilities.

Ricardo operates a parallel ‘team leader’ system for pastoral staff management, meaning that you will not initially have any direct line management responsibilities. However, if line management is of interest to you, we can help you to demonstrate and develop that capability.

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.

Next Steps

If our application process does not align with your requirements, please email recruit.ee@ricardo.com and we will make necessary arrangements to meet your needs.

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.