Salary: £28,000 to £35,000 plus benefits

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

Join a team of environmental experts shaping the future of water monitoring. As a Hydrometry & Telemetry Technician at Ricardo, you’ll be part of a passionate and proactive team delivering high-quality water and environmental services. We foster a supportive culture that values development, innovation, and collaboration—helping our people thrive and grow in their careers.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and growing monitoring team. We’re looking for enthusiastic, self-motivated individuals with a hands-on approach, practical mindset, and strong problem-solving skills. In this role, you’ll be responsible for installing, calibrating, maintaining, and repairing hydrometry and telemetry systems in the field, as well as supporting a variety of environmental monitoring surveys across the UK.

Key Responsibilities

Hydrometry focuses on measuring the physical characteristics and quantity of water, including flow, levels, and quality. In this part of the role, you will:

• Install, operate, and maintain hydrological monitoring equipment.
• Calibrate instruments and collect field data.
• Conduct regular equipment servicing and ensure data quality through effective QA/QC processes.
• Interpret and process collected data for reporting and decision-making.

Telemetry involves the remote collection and transmission of environmental data. In this aspect of the role, you will:

• Install, configure, and maintain telemetry systems.
• Troubleshoot and repair faults in data transmission or sensor performance.
• Ensure the efficient and accurate delivery of real-time environmental data.

Key Competencies and Experience

• Proven experience in hydrometric fieldwork and river flow monitoring

• Strong understanding of flow measurement techniques, including electromagnetic and ADCP gauging

• Confident working independently in the field and leading small survey teams

• Solid awareness of health and safety practices, particularly in and around water

• Demonstrated ability to assess risk and implement safety controls on site

• Full, clean UK driving licence

• Confident swimmer

• Strong team player with a proactive, positive attitude

• Willingness to travel and work away from home as required

• Desirable: RYA Powerboat Level 2 certification

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.

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.