Technical Specialist – Emissions Inventories and Projections

Overview

Role: Technical Specialist – Emissions Inventories and Projections

Location: UK London, Harwell, Middle East, Singapore

Role ID: 2023 - 2060

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

At Ricardo, we offer an environment where your expertise will thrive, your creativity will flourish, and your contributions will directly impact industries that drive progress and positive change.

We are currently looking for a Senior or Principal Consultant or Associate Director to join our Emissions Inventories and Projections team. This is a specialist inventories role and is best suited to an individual with a minimum of 5 years of consultancy or industry experience of emissions to the atmosphere from one or more of the following sectors: oil and gas, domestic combustion, road transport, shipping, waste management or AFOLU.

We encourage you to apply for this role if you have the following:

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent qualification in a science/mathematics related subject.
• Strong problem-solving and numeracy skills.
• Knowledge of UK, European, and global air quality and GHG emissions regulations.
• Proven ability to deliver technically sound results under scrutiny.
• Track record of task ownership and completion.
• Network of contacts within air quality, climate change, or specific industries.
• High attention to detail with an appreciation of QA/QC processes.
• Proficiency in common software like Microsoft Office.
• Strong communication and client presentation skills.
• Specialist knowledge in emission sources, regulatory landscape, and technologies in sectors like oil and gas, transport, combustion, waste management, or AFOLU.

Desirable competencies include expertise in emission inventory methods (e.g., IPCC, EMEP/EEA guidelines, GHG Protocol) and their application in various inventories and projections, along with experience in data processing and statistical analysis using languages like Python or R. As well as familiarity with relational database server technologies like PostgreSQL.

We are actively looking for applicants with a range of experience and specialised knowledge to help us strengthen our team. Your unique expertise and perspective are highly valued, so we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all the listed requirements or preferences.

This role involves contributing to all phases - from supporting the preparation of proposals to win new work, through researching and analysing information and data, building emission and projection models, to delivering compelling, engaging outputs, and contributing to reports that are delivered to clients.

This role is likely to involve:

• Working on a variety of projects including the National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory.
• Providing ad hoc support and advice to Government customers.
• Developing and improving Inventory models, methods and assumptions, and activity data.
• Stakeholder engagement, with the modelling community, industry, academia and public sector.
• Projections and scenario development to support customer policy makers.
• Leading and designing measurements for the development of new emission factors.

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.

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.