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.

The Role

This role sits within the Energy Infrastructure Transition Practice, supporting public and private clients in transitioning to future-proof, net-zero energy systems. You will help deliver a growing portfolio of international projects focused on future fuels—such as low-carbon hydrogen, biofuels, and e-fuels—by providing strategic, technical, and implementation support across feasibility, engineering, and policy domains.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver and manage projects related to alternative fuels, ensuring quality, timeliness, and client satisfaction.
• Lead or support project governance, reporting, client liaison, and technical quality review.
• Contribute to wider energy transition projects within a collaborative, matrix team environment.
• Develop high-quality technical proposals, primarily within the fuels sector.
• Write concise, professional reports on complex topics.
• Review and provide feedback on junior team members’ technical work.
• Drive process improvements and share best practices.
• Support account management and help grow client relationships.
• Contribute to business development and sector visibility through networking and thought leadership (e.g. blogs, articles).
• Occasional international travel for meetings or conferences.

Key Competencies and Experience

• Degree or equivalent in a STEM field (preferably chemical/process engineering) or relevant industrial experience.
• Proven expertise in future fuels or chemical process sectors.
• Experience in consultancy, advisory, or related roles.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and project coordination skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including report writing and stakeholder engagement.
• Ability to manage time effectively across multiple projects.

Desirable Competencies and Experience

• Experience managing complex consultancy projects and securing new work.
• Familiarity with economic analysis tools (e.g. CBA, scenario modelling).
• Existing sector networks to support business development.
• Fluency in additional languages (especially Spanish or other European 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 recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.