Senior Air Quality Modelling Consultant

Overview

Role: Senior Air Quality Modelling Consultant

Location: Hybrid, Harwell, Manchester, Bristol, London, Glasgow.

Role ID: 2022-1636

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.

Energy & Environment, one of Ricardo plc’s five operating business units, is a leader in sustainability consultancy, solving complex environmental challenges through industry-leading analysis, advice and data. With more than 40 years of heritage in addressing air quality, environmental and sustainability issues, our customers value us for our deep understanding and breadth of services covering the entire value chain from evidence, policy & strategy to implementation.

We are currently looking for a Senior Air Quality Modelling Consultant  to join our Air quality team

The Air Quality & Environment Practice team of over 130 consultants, scientists and engineers develop and apply state-of-the-art tools and techniques to deliver effective solutions to difficult air quality problems.  Our team includes knowledge leaders on air quality measurement, inventory development, modelling, exposure assessment, assessment of air pollution impacts on nature sites, chemical modelling, public health impacts, information management and data visualisation. Our clients benefit from the full range of air quality services that result in solutions and strategies tailored to addressing challenges at local, city and national scales. We deliver hundreds of projects every year, to public and private sector clients in the UK and overseas, including flagship programmes such as the UK’s national air quality measurement network (AURN), the National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory (NAEI) and the annual national scale air quality modelling assessment on behalf of UK Government.

Key responsibilities

We have an opportunity for a motivated Consultant, Business Analyst, or Requirements Engineer to support the development of innovative digital tools and solutions within our Air Quality Modelling team. You will play a key role in the delivery of our work, including analysing, specifying and documenting user requirements for software tools and features. You will work closely with colleagues in software development and user experience design, as well as with subject matter experts in air quality modelling and impact assessment, to contribute to the design of key areas of software functionality.

You will be given one to one support, mentoring, learning and development via experienced colleagues, scheduled training events and a personal development plan. You will work in a friendly, supportive environment with access to a wide range of opportunities for career progression.

Specific tasks will be dependent on your level of experience, but are likely to include: discussing and analysing functionality requirements with multidisciplinary teams; developing and documenting acceptance criteria for new software features; data analysis using Excel and/or other software tools; and writing documentation.

Key competencies and experience:

• A Bachelors (2.1 or above), Masters or PhD in a scientific subject
• Strong numeracy skills and a talent for data analysis are essential
• Strong MS Excel skills
• Familiarity with requirements engineering and/or Jira would be highly advantageous
• Familiarity with Geographic Information Systems (GIS), R or Python would be advantageous
• Experience with air quality modelling and assessment, or other environmental consulting topics, would be advantageous
• Experience in a consultancy or in any customer facing commercial environment would be advantageous

Skills and behaviours**:**

• Strong problem solving and creative thinking skills
• Effective communication skills, both written and oral and basic presentation skills.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Flexibility, resilience and enthusiasm
• Strong team working skills

Working here

Ricardo is an exciting and rewarding place to work and you have the opportunity to make a difference. You will work with teams of talented, dedicated, and supportive individuals. Alongside having a fantastic opportunity to develop your career with us through our broad range of projects, mentoring opportunities and a personalised approach to your learning and development. We are always keen to hear from people who have driven, ambition and a flair for innovative thinking.

Wellbeing and work life balance

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that's 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. Our People are important to us, and we take pride in our wellbeing programmes and policies that support individuals including flexible working, carers policy, mental health first aiders and readily available support through our extensive Employee Assistance programme.

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 ensure a culture of inclusivity, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Benefits

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.

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.